burds Flashcards

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Passeriformes

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-3 toed perching feet
-Altricial
-Sparrows, Crows, robins, warblers

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Apodiformes

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-small bodies smallest birds
-428 species
-hummingbirds, swifts

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Piciformes

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-sharp-chisel like bills
-grasping feet
-4 toed, two on top, two on bottom
-woodpeckers, toucans

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Coraciiformes

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-crested
-kingfishers

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Psittaciformes

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-very nice vocal chords
-powerful bills for crushing seeds
-cockatoos, parrots

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Charadriformes

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-long, slender, probing bills
-stiltlike legs
-shorebirds, puffin, gull, auks

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Columbiformes

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-stout bodied
-perching feet
-pigeons, doves

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Falconiformes

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-birds of prey
-sharp, pointed beak
-eagles, hawks, vultures, falcons

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Galliformes

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-round body
-limited flying ability
-Grouse, peacock, turkey, chicken

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Gruiformes

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-marsh dwellers
-stilt legs
-coots, rails, bittern, cranes, snipes, woodcocks

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Anseriformes

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-waterfowl
-webbed toes, broad bill with filtering ridges
-ducks, swans, geese

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Ciconiiformes

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-long legged
-waders
-large bodies
-stork, heron, egret, flamingo, ibis

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Strigiformes

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-nocturnal
-powerful beak and feet
-owls

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Procellariformes

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-sea birds
-tube shaped bill
-can fly for long time
-Albatross, petrels

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Pelicaniformes

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-communal group
-white/brown pelican, cormorant

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Sphenisiciformes

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-marine, flightless
-southern Hemisphere
-penguins

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Apterygiformes

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-small & flightless
-probing bill
-only in New Zealand
-Kiwi

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Struthioniformes

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-large, flightless
-two toes
-ostrich