Richard L. Zusi
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LOCATION: Bethesda, MD, United States
Curator Emeritus, Division of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Author of Structural Adaptations of the Head and Neck in the Black Skimmer, Rynchops nigra Linnaeus.
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Charadriiform, (order Charadriiformes), any member of the large group of birds that includes the sandpipers, plovers, gulls, auks, and their relatives. These birds form an important and familiar segment of the avifauna of the world’s coasts and inland waterways, of the Arctic regions, and of the…
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