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Bird Orders
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1Order [blank_start]Gaviiformes[blank_end] - Loons; large swimming birds with dagger-like bills; usually dive from surface
- AGaviiformes
2Order [blank_start]Podicipediformes[blank_end] - Grebes; duck-like divers with thin necks, small heads, lobed toes, and a tailless appearance; water birds - usually dive from surface.
- APodicipediformes
3Order [blank_start]Sphenisciformes[blank_end] - Penguins; flightless, aquatic seabirds; swim efficiently underwater
- ASphenisciformes
4Order [blank_start]Pelicaniformes[blank_end] - Pelicans, Herons, Egrets, Ibises, Spoonbills; some posses gular pouches (pelicans); others are long-legged fish or invertebrate eating shorebirds or filter feeders
- APelicaniformes
5Order [blank_start]Suliformes[blank_end] - Frigate birds, Anhigas, Boobies, Gannets, and Cormorants; many fitha gular pouch (coevolution to pelicans; fight-eating birds; some flightless; double-crested cormorant in Ohio
- ASuliformes
6Order [blank_start]Anseriformes[blank_end] - Ducks, Geese, Swans, Screamers; broadened-bills; webbed feet; most water birds
- AAnseriformes
7Order [blank_start]Gruiformes[blank_end] - Cranes, Rails, Limpkins, Coots, Gallinules; soemtimes long-legged; long-necked; slim bodies; some aquatic
- AGruiformes
8Order [blank_start]Charadriiformes[blank_end] - Gulls, Plovers, Sandpipers, Stilts, Avocets, Terns, Skimmers, Puffins, Snipe, Woodcocks, Phalaropes
- ACharadriiformes
9Order [blank_start]Ciconiiformes[blank_end] - Storks; long-necked, long-legged wading birds with stout bills
- ACiconiiformes
10Order [blank_start]Phoenicopteriformes[blank_end] - Flamingos; pinkish wading birds with long necks and legs; thick bill lined with lamellae for straining food
- APhoenicopteriformes
11Order [blank_start]Galliformes[blank_end] - Pheasants, Turkeys, Grouse, Quail, Guineafowl; vegetarian; rounded wings; often gregarious
- AGalliformes
12Order [blank_start]Accipitriformes[blank_end] - Eagles, Hawks, Falcons, Ospreys, old-world Vultures; diurnal birds of prey; hooked bills and talons; opposable hind toe
- AAccipitriformes
13Order [blank_start]Falconiformes[blank_end] - Falcons; birds of prey; typically smaller and faster than hawks and other accipters
- AFalconiformes
14Order [blank_start]Cathartiformes[blank_end] - New World Vultures; carrion scavengers
- ACathartiformes
15Order [blank_start]Strigiformes[blank_end] - Owls; nocturnal birds of prey; large heads and eyes; large external ear openings; large talons; rounded silent wings; screech, barred, short-eared and great-horned owls
- AStrigiformes
16Order [blank_start]Psittaciformes[blank_end] - Parrots, Parakeets; hooked beaks, zygodactyl toe arrangement; short necked; gaudy colors
- APsittaciformes
17Order [blank_start]Columbiformes[blank_end] - Doves, Pigeons, Dodos; crop pouches that produce pigeon milk for young (310 species)
- AColumbiformes
18Order [blank_start]Cuculiformes[blank_end] - Cuckoos, Roadrunners, Anis, Hoatzins, Turacos
- ACuculiformes
19Order [blank_start]Caprimulgiformes[blank_end] - Night Hawks, Whip-por-wills, Chuck-wills-widows; rictal bristles; large mouth; crepuscular insectivores
- ACaprimulgiformes
20Order [blank_start]Apodiformes[blank_end] - Swifts and Hummingbirds; short-legs and feet; some pamprodactyl; some with tubular tongues
- AApodiformes
21Order [blank_start]Coraciiformes[blank_end] - Kingfishers, Todies, Bee-eaters, Rollers; strong prominent bill; syndactyle; toe arrangements (3 toes focused at the base)
- ACoraciiformes
22Order [blank_start]Piciformes[blank_end] - Woodpeckers, Piculets, Wrynecks, Jacamars, Barbets, Honeyguides, Toucans; zygodactyl toe arrangement; specialized bills and tongues
- APiciformes
23Order [blank_start]Passeriformes[blank_end] - Largest bird order; Song Birds; anisodactyl = 3 toes front and 1 toe back; advanced voice box for singing; includes 21 families in eastern North America
- APasseriformes
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- Quiz on Bird Orders, created by Kelli Ann on 05/04/2019.
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- Kelli Ann
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