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Neoaves Flashcards

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Neognathae

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Neoaves

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(Caprimulgiformes)

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Nightjars, potosi, oilbirds, frogmouths
122 species
-Nocturnal or crepuscular
-Cryptic coloration
-Mouth; large gape with bristles
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Nightjars

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Worldwide

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Potoos

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Neotropics

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Frogmouths

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Orient, Australasia

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Oilbird

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South America

  • Cave dwelling
  • Nocturnal
  • Uses echolocation
  • Can smell good
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(Apodiformes)

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Swifts, hummingbirds, owletnightjars

480 species

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Swifts

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Worldwide
Tiny pamprodactyl feet (4th toe reversible)
-Some can remain airborne > 6 months, sleep aloft

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Hummingbirds

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New world
361 species
-Short humerus and radius-ulna long “hand”

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Owlet-nightjars

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Australasia

  • Nocturnal
  • Aerial insect eaters
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(Musophagiformes)

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Turacos
Africa 23 species
-Most vegetarian-plantain eaters
-Featherrs of face/breat have few barbules
-Unique pigments!!!
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(Otidiformes)

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Bustards
Old world 26 species
-Plains of Eurasia/Africa
-Cursorial
-Omnivorous, Gregarious
-Vocal, courtship
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(Cuculiformes)

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Cuckoos (roadrunners)
Worldwide 149 species
-Long tails
-Zygodactyl feet
-Old world;nest parasite
New world: not
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(Mesitomithiformes) Mesites + Roatelos

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Madagascar

  • Secret forages in forest litter
  • Terrestrial, short wings but can fly
  • Powder down
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(Pteroclidiformes)

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Sandgrouse
Old world
-Seed eater
-Arid grasslands
-Large crop
-Males of some species carry water in breast feathers
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(Columbiformes) Pigeons and doves

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Worldwide

  • Eye ring
  • Operculum or cere-fleshy
  • Crop “pigeons milk” to feed nestling
  • Can suck water
  • Dodo
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(Gruiformes)-flufftails, rails, coots, sungrebes, limpkin (neotropics), trumpeter (south america)

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189 species

  • No crop
  • Skeleton and palate similarites
  • Unwebbed to slightly webbed feet, or lobbed toes
  • Some polyandrous
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Rails, coots

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Worldwide

19
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Flufftails

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Africa, Madagascar

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Sungrebes (male carry young in pouch), Finfoots

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Pantropical

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Cranes

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All continents except South America

  • Long legged
  • Terrestrial
  • Long neck
  • Omnivorous-Opportunistic
  • Monogamous-courtship
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(Podicipediformes) Grebes

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Worldwide-23

  • Foot propelled divers
  • Tails reduced
  • Feet lobbed, tarsi compressed
  • Eat feathers to collect fish bones
  • Elaborate display
  • Young stay on back even during dives
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(Phoenicopteriformes) Flamingos

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Tropics, high Andes, S. America-6 species

  • Filter feeders
  • Nomadic, breed erratically in huge colonies
  • Crop milk

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