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21 Cards in this Set
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Anseriformes
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• large-bodied aquatic birds
• short legs and webbed feet • diverse group ducks, geese, swans |
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Accipitriformes
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• sharply hooked beak
• wings are long and fairly broad • strong talons Hawks, eagles, kites, new world vultures |
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Apodiformes
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• small feet and their legs are short
• thick shoulder bones and long, powerful breastbones • Many birds in this order cannot walk swifts and humming birds |
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Caprimulgiformes
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• large heads and large eyes help them see at night
• camo • Nocturnal goatsuckers, night jar, nighthawk |
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Charadriiformes
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• Strong flight abilities. Some species of shorebirds undertake the longest and most
• plummage that consists of white, gray, brown or black feathers. • Many species have bright red or yellow feet gulls, turns, killdeer |
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Ciconiiformes
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• Heavy bill
• Wading with long legs • Clack bills Storks |
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Columbiformes
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• stout bodies
• short necks • large crop (produce Pigeons milk) pigeons, doves |
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Coraciiformes
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• heavy bills
• syndactyl • hover/dive for fish kingfishers, rollers |
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Cuculiformes
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• zygodactyl feet, meaning they have two toes (1 and 4) backwards and two toes (2 and 3) forwards
• slightly down curved bills • medium to long wings • stick nests cuckoos, roadrunners, anis |
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Falconiformes
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• The beak is always hooked, for killing
• Smaller diurnal raptor • Sight and hearing are highly developed, but the sense of smell is usually poor or absent. caracaras, falcons, kestrels |
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Galliformes
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• four-toed feet, adapted for life on the ground
• elliptical wings • heavy bodied turkey, chicken, pheasant, peacock, quail |
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Gaviiformes
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• Long, straight bill (chisel-like)
• legs far back on body -- foot-propelled diving birds, 3 front toes fully webbed • plumage heavy and waterproof Loons |
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Gruiformes
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• Most of the birds in this order have "pervious nostrils", basically "see-through
• Most of the birds in this order have an oil gland • No crop • aquatic Rails, Cranes, Coots |
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Passeriformes
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• Four long, thin toes. Three toes face forward and one faces backwards, aka Hallax
• ability to sing complex songs, syrinx highly developed • no webbing that joins the toes. |
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Pelecaniformes
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• large bodies
• colony nesters Pelicans, Ibis, Spoonbill, egrets herons |
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Piciformes
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• four toes, two face forward and two face backwards aka zydactyl
• strong legs and a sturdy tail. • heavy, sturdy bills woodpeckers, toucans |
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Podicipediformes
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• wings are rather short and skinny, cannot take off from land
• bills are short • lobbed toes • Eat their own feathers, platform nests Grebs |
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Procellariiformes
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• nostrils which are enclosed in external tubes that run from the base of their bill towards its tip
• wings are long and narrow, dynamic soaring • feet are webbed, and the hind toe is undeveloped or non-existent albatroses and petrels |
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Strigiformes
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• well-developed talons; feet can switch between Zydactyl and ansiodatyl
• Soft plumage • facial disk, which is circular Barn and typical owls |
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Suliformes
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• four webbed feet
• bare gullar pouch • aquatic Frigate birds, Gannets |
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Trogoniformes
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• short neck with short, heavy, broad-hooked bills
• heterdactyl feet; 4,3 forward and H 2 backward • short, rounded wings with long, broadly squared tails Trogon and Quetzl |
