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    Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species...
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    orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes). Anatomical and molecular similarities suggest these two groups are...
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    the Anseriformes, and provides novel insight into its feeding ecology. Vegavis was initially described as a member of the crown group Anseriformes within...
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    Anatidae, i.e. ducks and allies, and the magpie goose, within the clade Anseriformes. The clade is exceptional within the living birds in lacking uncinate...
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    Pelagornithidae (pseudo-toothed birds) and the clade Anserimorphae (the order Anseriformes and their stem-relatives). The placement of the pseudo-toothed birds...
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    list of Anseriformes species by global population. While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. Anseriformes (Anser...
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    name Anseriformes only to the crown group formed by all modern species, and label the larger group including extinct relatives of anseriformes in the...
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    brood parasitism has been recorded in 234 bird species, including 74 Anseriformes, 66 Passeriformes, 32 Galliformes, 19 Charadriiformes, 8 Gruiformes,...
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  • According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 77 bird species in the United States are threatened with extinction. The IUCN has...
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    Threatened species of bird in family Anhimidae of the waterfowl order Anseriformes. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. The northern screamer shares...
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  • Anseriformes is an order of birds belonging to the clade Galloanseres. It consists of 3 families, 58 genera and 171 living species. Extinct species assignment...
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    though this is based on fragmentary remains Disputed, was probably an Anseriformes but could still be an Cariamiformes This may be a vast overestimation...
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    torquata) is a species of bird in family Anhimidae of the waterfowl order Anseriformes. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay...
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  • This item lists those birds of South Asia in the Megapodes, Galliformes, Gruiformes and near passerines. For an introduction to the birds of the region...
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    C. (1996). "Molecular Relationships Within Australasian Waterfowl (Anseriformes)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 44 (1). CSIRO Publishing: 47–58. doi:10...
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    List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of aves or birds, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, and...
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    Lophodytes, Mergellus, and Bucephala are very similar: uniquely among all Anseriformes, they do not have notches at the hind margin of their sternum, but holes...
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    Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Subfamily: Anatinae Genus: Amazonetta Boetticher, 1929...
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  •   Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species   Critically endangered (CR): 223 species   Endangered (EN): 460 species   Vulnerable (VU): 798 species   Near threatened...
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    C. (1996). "Molecular Relationships Within Australasian Waterfowl (Anseriformes)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 44 (1): 47–58. doi:10.1071/ZO9960047...
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    incertae sedis. List of Anseriformes by population Olson, Storrs L.; Feduccia, A. (1980). "Presbyornis and the Origin of the Anseriformes (Aves: Charadriomorphae)"...
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    gallinaceous birds, or galliforms. Galliforms and waterfowl (order Anseriformes) are collectively called fowl. The living Galliformes were once divided...
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    penises. Males within Palaeognathae (with the exception of the kiwis), the Anseriformes (with the exception of screamers), and in rudimentary forms in Galliformes...
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  • Eyre Basin. Worthy, Trevor H. (6 May 2008). "Pliocene waterfowl (Aves:Anseriformes) from South Australia and a new genus and species". Emu - Austral Ornithology...
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    duck, or in ornithology a hen. All ducks belong to the biological order Anseriformes, a group that contains the ducks, geese and swans, as well as the screamers...
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    1016/0305-4403(81)90014-5. "Fossilworks Cygnus Garsault 1764 (waterfowl) Reptilia – Anseriformes – Anatidae PaleoDB taxon number: 83418 Parent taxon: Anatidae according...
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    Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene – and before recorded...
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    Anseriformes (waterfowls) Galliformes (landfowls- gamebirds)...
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    birds: anatomical evidence for their relationship to Anseriformes (Dromornithidae, Anseriformes)". Records of the South Australian Museum. 31: 51–97....
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    C. (1996). "Molecular Relationships Within Australasian Waterfowl (Anseriformes)". Australian Journal of Zoology. 44 (1): 47–58. doi:10.1071/ZO9960047...
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