Editing Avocet (section)

===Species===
The genus contains four species.<ref name="ioc">{{cite web|editor1-last=Gill |editor1-first=Frank |editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) |editor2-last=Donsker |editor2-first=David |editor3-last=Rasmussen |editor3-first=Pamela |editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen |date=July 2021 |title=Buttonquail, thick-knees, sheathbills, plovers, oystercatchers, stilts, painted-snipes, jacanas, Plains-wanderer, seedsnipes |work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 |url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/buttonquail/ |publisher=International Ornithologists' Union |access-date=17 August 2021 }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! scope="col" | Image
! scope="col" | Name
! scope="col" | Common name
! scope="col" | Distribution
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| [[File:American avocet (26124753051).jpg|120px]]
| ''Recurvirostra americana''
| [[American avocet]]
| Central/Western United States, South Florida, Mexico, Saskatchewan, and Alberta
|-
| [[File:Recurvirostra andina.jpg|120px]]
| ''Recurvirostra andina''
| [[Andean avocet]]
| Argentina, western Bolivia, northern Chile, and southern Peru 
|-
| [[File:Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta by Dr. Raju Kasambe DSCN3743 (8).jpg|120px]]
| ''Recurvirostra avosetta''
| [[Pied avocet]]
| Temperate Europe and Western and Central Asia
|-
| [[File:Recurvirostra novaehollandiae - Lake Joondalup.jpg|120px]]
| ''Recurvirostra novaehollandiae''
| [[Red-necked avocet]]
| Australia
|-
|}

One fossil species, ''R. sanctaneboulae'' Mourer-Chauviré, 1978, dates from the late Eocene of France.