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Birds in the Maldives
Sea Birds Resident Birds Protected Birds Reference
          CHARADRIIFORMES: Diverse group of aquatic birds, often sea birds, often long-distance migratory birds and web-footed, breed in large colonies  (Jacans, Painted Snipe, Oystercatchers, Plovers, Sandpipers, Avocets and Stilts, Phalaropes, Crab Plover, Thick-Knees, Pratincoles and Courses, Seed Snipe, Sheathbills, Skuas and Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Skimmers, Akus)  

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