Category:Chionidae - BirdForum Opus

Family: Chionidae

Alternative name: Chionididae

Description

Sheathbills. The only bird family endemic to the Antarctic and subantarctic.⁴

Taxonomy

Chionidae (formerly spelled Chionididae) is a family in the order Charadriiformes.

References

1. Dickinson EC (ed.) 2003. The Howard & Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World. 3rd ed. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ, USA. ISBN 9780691117010
2. Gill F & Wright M. 2008. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, USA. 2006. ISBN 9780691128276 Update (2008) downloaded from http://worldbirdnames.org/names.html.
3. Sibley CG & Monroe BL. 1996. Birds of the World, on diskette, Windows version 2.0. Charles G. Sibley, Santa Rosa, CA, USA.
4. Underhill L. 2002. Lesser Sheathbill Chionis minor ("Paddy"). Avian Demography Unit, University of Cape Town. Downloaded from web.uct.ac.za on 9 September 2008.