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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Pelecaniformes (category) Wikispecies has information related to Pelecaniformes. Tree of Life: Pelecaniformes...
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    (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) is a large aquatic soaring bird from the order Pelecaniformes. It breeds in interior North America, moving south and to the coasts...
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    orders Ciconiiformes, Suliformes and Pelecaniformes. In the past the name has been used as a homonym for Pelecaniformes. Livezey, Bradley C.; Zusi, Richard...
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    Shoebill (category Pelecaniformes)
    However, genetic evidence places it with pelicans and herons in the Pelecaniformes. The adult is mainly grey while the juveniles are more brown. It lives...
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    the muscle patterns were different among the steganopodes (classical Pelecaniformes), he resolved that there were divergent lineages in the group that should...
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    Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene – and before recorded...
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    birds are not actually true 'storks'), and are placed in the order Pelecaniformes. Ibises, spoonbills, herons, and bitterns have been classified in the...
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    List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of aves or birds, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, and...
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    The glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) is a water bird in the order Pelecaniformes and the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae. The scientific...
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    to the current Pelecaniformes. According to Hackett et al. (2008), loons, penguins, storks, and as well as Suliformes and Pelecaniformes, all seem to have...
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    extant species. The genus Nycticorax has suffered more than any other Pelecaniformes genus from extinction, mainly because of their capability to colonize...
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    traditionally placed within the Pelecaniformes or, in the Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy of the 1990s, the expanded Ciconiiformes. Pelecaniformes in the traditional sense—all...
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  • Under South Korean law, the hunting and capturing of a large number of species of wild animals is prohibited. These include 64 species of mammals, 396...
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  •   Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species   Critically endangered (CR): 223 species   Endangered (EN): 460 species   Vulnerable (VU): 798 species   Near threatened...
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    Flightless birds have, through evolution, lost the ability to fly. There are over 60 extant species, including the well-known ratites (ostriches, emus...
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    Balaenicipitidae is a family of birds in the order Pelecaniformes, although it was traditionally placed in Ciconiiformes. The shoebill is the sole extant...
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    Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Balaenicipitidae Genus: †Goliathia Lambrecht, 1930 Species:...
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    provisional. A 2008 study suggests that this family belongs to the Pelecaniformes. In response to these findings, the International Ornithological Congress...
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  • This list of fictional birds is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. Ducks, penguins and birds of prey are not included here, and are listed separately...
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    storks. The rest of the waders have been reclassified into the order Pelecaniformes. In some field guides, the families Gruidae (cranes) and Aramidae (limpkin)...
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    Lama, S.N. (2013). "Molecular phylogeny of Threskiornithidae (Aves: Pelecaniformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA" (PDF). Genetics and Molecular...
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  •   Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species   Critically endangered (CR): 223 species   Endangered (EN): 460 species   Vulnerable (VU): 798 species   Near threatened...
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    Phaethontiformes, and Procellariiformes, family Pelecanidae within Pelecaniformes and families Alcidae, Laridae, and Stercorariidae within Charadriiformes)...
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    Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Ardeidae Subfamily: Ardeinae Groups included Egretta Ardea Bubulcus...
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    Sphenisciformes, Procellariiformes, Ciconiiformes, Suliformes and Pelecaniformes. It does not include several unrelated groups of aquatic birds such...
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    petrels) Ciconiiformes (storks) Suliformes (cormorants and relatives) Pelecaniformes (pelicans and relatives) Australaves Cariamiformes (seriemas and relatives)...
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    those penguins may have ultimately shared a common ancestor with the Pelecaniformes and consequently would have to be included in that order, or that the...
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    Suliformes (boobies, cormorants, etc.) Pelecaniformes (pelicans, herons and ibises)...
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    Hamerkop (category Pelecaniformes)
    long thought to sit with the Ciconiiformes but is now placed with the Pelecaniformes, and its closest relatives are thought to be the pelicans and the shoebill...
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    Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Pelecaniformes Family: Ardeidae Subfamily: Ardeinae Genus: Bubulcus Bonaparte, 1855...
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