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Bucerotiformes / b j uː ˈ s ɛ r ə t ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of birds that contains the hornbills, ground hornbills, hoopoes and wood hoopoes. [1] These birds were previously classified as members of Coraciiformes. [2] [3] [4] The clade is distributed in Africa, Asia, Europe and Melanesia.
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Among them is the family Cathartidae (New World vultures) which the American Ornithological Society (AOS), the Clements taxonomy, and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World place in its own order, Cathartiformes.
Eurypygiformes / j ʊər ɪ ˈ p ɪ dʒ ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order formed by the kagus, comprising two species in the family Rhynochetidae endemic to New Caledonia, and the sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) from the tropical regions of the Americas. [1] Its closest relatives appear to be the tropicbirds of the tropical Atlantic, Indian, and ...
This region includes biologically important gray whale feeding and reproduction habitats [6] Many bird species navigate the Chukchi Corridor to migrate to the North Slope for summer breeding [7] As a region with substantial seafloor productivity, the Chukchi Corridor is an important nursery habitat for forage fish species, Arctic cod , and ...
Gaviiformes (/ ˈ ɡ æ v i. ɪ f ɔːr m iː z /) is an order of aquatic birds containing the loons or divers and their closest extinct relatives. Modern gaviiformes are found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia (Europe, Asia and debatably Africa), though prehistoric species were more widespread.
The grey go-away-bird (Crinifer concolor), [2] also known as grey lourie, grey loerie, or kwêvoël, is a bold and common turaco of the southern Afrotropics. They are present in arid to moist, open woodlands and thorn savanna, especially near surface water. [3] They regularly form groups and parties that forage in tree tops, or dust bathe on ...
The family Threskiornithidae includes 36 species of large wading birds. The family has been traditionally classified into two subfamilies, the ibises and the spoonbills; however recent genetic studies have cast doubt on this arrangement, and have found the spoonbills to be nested within the Old World ibises, and the New World ibises as an early offshoot.