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  • proper noun A taxonomic order within the subclass Neognathae — the kingfishers, hoopoe, bee-eaters, rollers and hornbills etc..

Etymologies

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Corax +‎ -iformes

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  • If you’re more familiar with the inclusion of these birds within Coraciiformes – the name previously used for rollers, kingfishers, bee-eaters, todies, motmots, hoopoes and hornbills – then you’ll be interested to know that there is now good evidence indicating that this grouping is artificial.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • If you’re more familiar with the inclusion of these birds within Coraciiformes – the name previously used for rollers, kingfishers, bee-eaters, todies, motmots, hoopoes and hornbills – then you’ll be interested to know that there is now good evidence indicating that this grouping is artificial.

    Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

  • This sexual dimorphism is, again, very different from what's seen in true rollers and ground-rollers: like most other birds conventionally grouped in 'Coraciiformes', true rollers and ground-rollers don't exhibit obvious sexual dimorphism [image below of female or juvenile Courol by Frank Wouters, from wikipedia].

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Darren Naish none@example.com 2010

  • The common kingfisher is a small bird measuring around 17cm in length, that belongs to the Alcedinidae family of the Coraciiformes order.

    Common Kingfisher Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010

  • The common kingfisher is a small bird measuring around 17cm in length, that belongs to the Alcedinidae family of the Coraciiformes order.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Michael James 2010

  • Anatomy and evolution of the feeding apparatus in the avian orders Coraciiformes and Piciformes.

    Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

  • Anatomy and evolution of the feeding apparatus in the avian orders Coraciiformes and Piciformes.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Anatomy and evolution of the feeding apparatus in the avian orders Coraciiformes and Piciformes.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Darren Naish none@example.com 2010

  • Coraciiformes - this of worksheets can conceive sparked by their emergencies which are pointed.

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  • Coraciiformes - this primitivo gomez thousand oaks ca of routines can assist blocked by their fronts which are pointed.

    Wii-volution 2010

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