Charadriiformes

Seedsnipes (Thinocoridae)

HBW 3, p. 538 Learn more about the Handbook of the Birds of the World - Volume 3 on the Lynx Edicions website.

• Small to medium-sized birds with short legs and bills, resembling quails or partridges, but with snipe-like flight.
• Neotropical Region.
• Alpine vegetation, steppe and semi-desert, from sea-level up to 5500 m.
• 2 genera, 4 species, 10 taxa.
• No species threatened; none extinct since 1600.