Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Agents Facet
3. Living Organisms (hierarchy name)
4. living organisms (entities)
5. Eukaryota (domain)
6. Animalia (kingdom)
7. Chordata (phylum)
8. Vertebrata (subphylum)
9. Aves (class)
10. Charadriiformes (order)
11. Charadriidae (family)

Anotations

Scope note:

General term for various species in the Charadriidae family, generally distinguished by being small to medium-sized, short-billed, gregarious, and typically feeding beside water but sometimes frequenting grassland, tundra, and mountains.