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  2. Anseriformes - Wikipedia

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    Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans. Most modern species in the ...

  3. List of Anseriformes - Wikipedia

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    Anseriformes is an order of birds belonging to the clade Galloanseres. It consists of 3 families, 58 genera and 171 living species. It consists of 3 families, 58 genera and 171 living species. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Extinct species assignment follows the Mikko's Phylogeny Archive [ 3 ] and Paleofile.com websites. [ 4 ]

  4. List of Anseriformes by population - Wikipedia

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    Anseriformes (Anser being Latin for "goose") is the taxonomic order to which the ducks, geese, swans, and screamers belong. BirdLife International has assessed 166 species; 89 (54% of total species) have had their population estimated.

  5. Category:Anseriformes - Wikipedia

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    The order Anseriformes contains about 150 species of bird in three families: the Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the Magpie-goose), and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.

  6. Greater white-fronted goose - Wikipedia

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    Greater white-fronted goose in California Greater white-fronted geese, Texel, Netherlands (2013). The greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons) is a species of goose, closely related to the smaller lesser white-fronted goose (A. erythropus). [2]

  7. Anseranatidae - Wikipedia

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    This family is placed in the order Anseriformes, having the characteristic bill structure, but is considered to be distinct from the other families in this taxon. The related and extant families, Anhimidae ( screamers ) and Anatidae ( ducks , geese and swans ), contain all the other taxa.

  8. Anatidae - Wikipedia

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    The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans.The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica.

  9. Magpie goose - Wikipedia

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    The Australian distribution of the living species ties in well with the presumed Gondwanan origin of Anseriformes, but Northern Hemisphere fossils are puzzling. Perhaps the magpie geese were one of the dominant groups of Paleogene waterfowl, only to become largely extinct later. [original research?]