Thinocori are exclusively termed as waders or shorebirds within the Northern America Peninsula. They make a wide range of birds, from the long legged wadding fowls, such as herons. Wading birds are termed as those birds which are long legged and wade their way along marshes in search of food, such as the ibises and storks.

There are more than 210 species of the warder species and most are associated with coastal environments and wetlands. With most Arctic Thinocori species as well as those in temperate regions being ultimately migratory, the tropical counterparts are usually resident while they only move as a result of rainfall patterns. In this regard, it is worth noting that the Arctic Thinocori species, such as the little stint make some of the longest and distant migrants, where they spend their non-breeding season within the larger southern hemisphere.

Feeding

Majority of the warders feed on small invertebrates that they have picked from mud or exposed soil. These birds have different bill lengths that do enable them in their differences to feed within the same habitat, more so along the coast, without any direct food competition. Most of the Thinocori have nerve endings that are quite sensitive at the periphery of their bills, something that enables them realize and detect prey paraphernalia hidden in soft soil or mud. There are some huge species, mostly those that are adapted to more dry habitats that consume some large prey plus other insects as well as smaller reptiles.

Most of the Thinocori species that are found along coastal habitats and are small of the warder species, particularly the calidrids although not exclusively this species, are called sandpipers, as much as it wields not definite meaning or symbolism since some of them, for instance the Upland Sandpiper, is uniquely a grassland species.

A smaller species of the warders within the Thinocori family is Least Sandpiper, whose small adults are know to have some quite minute weight such as 15.5g while measuring slightly above 5 inches or 13cm. In addition, one of the largest Thinocori species is the Far Eastern Curlew and has a length of about 63cm or 25 inches and weighing around 860 grams or 1.9lb, as much as one of the heaviest of the warders is the Beach Thick-knee, weighing about 2.2lb a kilogram.

Some warders in so many other groups such as the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy have been subsumed within the now widely enlarged Ciconiiformes order. Nonetheless, the Charadriiformes classification is ultimately the weakest points of all the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, since the acclaimed DNA-DNA hybridization did not have the capability to exclusively and properly resolve the inherent inter-relationships that lie within this group.

Some of the Thinocori had been united within the same sub-order, called the Charadrii, but it has been seen as a superfluous order wastebasket kind of taxon that only unites about four of the lineages of the charadrii form into the paraphyletic assemblage. This has however confirmed the Plains Wanderer as actually being a part of this taxon.