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- Ciconiiformes
- -Wading birds Egrets Herons
- -Mostly Aquatic, Long legs, Incumbent hallux
- -Long neck and bill
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- Anseriformes
- -ducks, geese, swans
- -aquatic, feet palmate, hallux elevated (hind toe)
- -bill lamellate (sive like) broad and depressed
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- Falconiformes
- -Feet raptorial
- -bill sharp, strong hook with cere
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- Galliformes
- -gallincaceous game birds
- -body plump, wings short
- -bill short, stout, decurved
- -feet strong, tarsi scullate or feathered
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- Gruiformes
- -cranes, rails, coots
- -long legs, short tail
- -nostrils perforate
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- Charadriiformes
- -shore birds, gulls, sandpipers, auks, skimmers
- -aquatic, feet palmate or semipalmate
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- Pelecaniformes
- -pelicans and cormorants
- -aquatic, totipalmate foot
- -bill with gular sac
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- Podicipediformes
- -Grebes
- -aquatic, tarsi compressed, foot lobed, nails flattened
- -bills vary usually long and straight
- -tail rudimentary
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- Podicipediformes
- -grebes
- -aquatic, tarsi compressed, foot lobed, nails flattened
- -bills vary usually long and straight-tail rudimentary
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- Procellariiformes
- -tubed nose swimmers, albatrosses, petrels, fulmars
- -pelagic, palmate feet
- -bill hooked, nostrils tubular
- -wings long narrow
- -mostly black and gray
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- Charadriiformes
- -shore birds, gulls, sandpipers, auks, skimmers
- -aquatic, feet palmate or semipalmate
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- Columbiformes
- -doves and pigeons
- -bill small and slender with operculum
- -wings, tail long
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- Psittaciformes
- -parrots
- -toes zyg0dactyl
- -usually bright colored, tropical
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