bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

Charadrii, suborder Charadrii - shorebirds: plovers; sandpipers; avocets; phalaropes; coursers; stone curlews

genus Glareola, Glareola - type genus of the Glareolidae: the pratincoles

courser - swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa

Cursorius, genus Cursorius - coursers

genus Pluvianus, Pluvianus - coursers