Editing Plains-wanderer (section)

==Taxonomy==
It was formerly believed to be related to the [[buttonquail]]s and thus placed in the [[gamebird]] order [[Galliformes]] or with the [[crane (bird)|cranes]] and [[rail (bird)|rails]] in [[Gruiformes]]. [[DNA–DNA hybridization]] and [[RAG-1]] [[DNA sequence|sequence]] data places it as a [[wader]] related to the [[Jacana (genus)|jacana]]s.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Sibley |first1=Charles G. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1xp3v3r |title=Phylogeny and Classification of the Birds: A Study in Molecular Evolution |last2=Ahlquist |first2=Jon E. |date=1990 |publisher=Yale University Press |jstor=j.ctt1xp3v3r |isbn=978-0-300-04085-2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Thomas |first1=Gavin H. |last2=Wills |first2=Matthew A. |last3=Székely |first3=Tamás |date=2004-08-24 |title=A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=28 |doi=10.1186/1471-2148-4-28 |issn=1471-2148 |pmc=515296 |pmid=15329156 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Van Tuinen |first1=Marcel |last2=Waterhouse |first2=David |last3=J. Dyke |first3=Gareth |date=2004 |title=Avian molecular systematics on the rebound: a fresh look at modern shorebird phylogenetic relationships |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0908-8857.2004.03362.x |journal=Journal of Avian Biology |language=en |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=191–194 |doi=10.1111/j.0908-8857.2004.03362.x |issn=0908-8857|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Paton |first1=Tara A. |last2=Baker |first2=Allan J. |last3=Groth |first3=Jeff G. |last4=Barrowclough |first4=George F. |date=2003 |title=RAG-1 sequences resolve phylogenetic relationships within Charadriiform birds |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790303000988 |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=29 |issue=2 |pages=268–278 |doi=10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00098-8 |pmid=13678682 |bibcode=2003MolPE..29..268P |issn=1055-7903|url-access=subscription }}</ref> It thus represents a remarkable case of morphological [[convergence (biology)|convergence]], or perhaps it is simply extremely [[plesiomorphic]] in morphology (the buttonquails, meanwhile, having turned out to be a very [[basal (evolution)|basal]] offshoot of the wader radiation). In the latter case, this would mean that the jacanas, [[painted snipe]] and [[seedsnipe]]s—all ecologically very different birds—all evolved from birds very similar to the living plains-wanderer.