Editing Avocet (section)

{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{About|the bird}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|name=Avocets
|image=Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta.jpg 
|image_caption=[[Pied avocet]]<br /> (''Recurvirostra avosetta'')
|taxon=Recurvirostra
|authority=[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]]
|type_species=''Recurvirostra avosetta'' ([[pied avocet]])
|type_species_authority=Linnaeus, 1758
|subdivision_ranks=Species
|subdivision=
*''Recurvirostra avosetta''
*''Recurvirostra americana''
*''Recurvirostra novaehollandiae''
*''Recurvirostra andina''
}}
The four species of '''avocets''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|v|ə|s|ɛ|t}} are a genus, '''''Recurvirostra''''', of [[wader]]s in the same [[bird|avian]] family as the [[stilt]]s. The genus name comes from [[Latin]] {{lang|la|recurvus}}, 'curved backwards' and {{lang|la|rostrum}}, 'bill'.<ref name="job">{{cite book |last=Jobling |first=James A |year=2010 |title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names |publisher=Christopher Helm |location=London |isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 |page=266 }}</ref> The common name is thought to derive from the Italian ([[Ferrara|Ferrarese]]) word {{lang|it|avosetta}}. [[Francis Willughby]] in 1678 noted it as the "Avosetta of the Italians".<ref>{{cite book |title=A dictionary of English and folk-names of British Birds |last=Swann |first=H. Kirke |publisher=Witherby and Co. |place=London |year=1913 |page=9 |url=https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofengl00swannhk#page/8/mode/2up }}</ref>