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A fact from Laridae appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 May 2017 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the family Laridae (European herring gull pictured) are the only shorebirds known to have developed ultraviolet vision?

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Order of genera lists[edit]

Thanks for keeping us up to speed on seabird phylogeny. I'm a bit puzzled by the order of the genera in the lists, though. William Avery (talk) 23:29, 22 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The order follows that of the IOC ref in article here. The idea is that the genera are in taxonomic order - starting with the most basal. Aa77zz (talk) 05:49, 23 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you. William Avery (talk) 15:12, 23 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]