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Gruiformes - inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food: cranes; rails; bustards

animal order - the order of animals

Aves, class Aves - (ornithology) the class of birds

family Gruidae, Gruidae - cranes

Aramus, genus Aramus - genus of large brown long-billed wading birds found in warm swampy regions of the western hemisphere: courlan; limpkin

Aramus guarauna, courlan - wading bird of South America and Central America

Aramus pictus, limpkin - wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call

Cariamidae, family Cariamidae - crane-like South American wading birds

family Rallidae, Rallidae - rails; crakes; gallinules; coots

Otides, suborder Otides - terrestrial game birds of the Old World and Australia: bustards

family Otididae, Otididae - bustards

family Turnicidae, Turnicidae - small Old World birds resembling but not related to true quail

family Psophiidae, Psophiidae - trumpeters

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Rallidae was representative of Gruiformes contained 2 species.

STUDY OF VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AT LAL SUHANRA NATIONAL PARK, PAKISTAN

Sigue el orden Passeriformes con 45 especies, los Pelecaniformes con 15 especies, los Anseriformes con 13 especies y los Gruiformes con 11 especies, entre los mas abundantes.

Ciento quince anos de registros de aves en Pantanos de Villa

Gruiformes (cranes, limpkins, rails, gallinules, coots, bustards).

Conservation Medicine: Cranes of the World

(2001): Ducks, rails and limicoline waders (Aves: Anseriformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes) from the lowermost Oligocene of Belgium.

Anatomy and variability of cuvierichelys parisiensis, a geoemydid turtle that crosses the eocene-oligocene boundary in Belgium

Pertenece al orden Gruiformes y a la familia Rallidae, no presenta dimorfismo sexual, es omnivora, se alimenta principalmente de plantas vasculares acuaticas y algas; en la epoca de reproduccion consume insectos, moluscos, crustaceos, anfibios y peces; todo su ciclo de vida lo realiza en el cuerpo de agua (Brisbin et al., 2002).

Liver Histopatology, Lipidperoxidation and Somatic Indices of Fulica americana in Xochimilco (Urban) and Tecocomulco (Rural) Wetlands in the Mexico Basin/ Histopatologia del Higado, Lipoperoxidacion e Indices Somaticos de Fulica americana en los Humedales de Xochimilco (Urbano) y Tecocomulco (Rural) de la Cuenca de Mexico

/Anas sp.) 2 corvids (Corvidae) 2 --jackdaw (Corvus monedula) 1 --crow/rook/jackdaw/raven (Corvus sp.) 2 3 owl (Strigiformes) 1 1 charadriiform (Charadriiformes) 1 gruiform (Gruiformes) passerines (Passeriformes) --trushes (Turdidae) Rodents (Rodentia) 1 cricetids (Cricetidae) 45 (11) Amphibians (Amphibia) 2 Mole (Talpa europaea) 2 ?

New data on Jaani stone graves at Vao, Northern Estonia/Uusi andmeid Vao Jaani kivikalmetest

According to Gaud and Atyeo (1979), mites of the subfamily Alloptinae are associated with a large number of sandpipers and other waterfowl such as Gaviiformes, Procellariiformes, Pelecaniformes, Ciconiiformes, Anseriformes, Gruiformes and Charadriiformes.

Feather mites of Calidris fuscicollis (Aves: Scolopacidae) in Brazil/Acaros plumicolas de Calidris fuscicollis (Aves: Scolopacidae) no Brasil

The habitat of 47.4% of them, including almost all the Anseriformes and Charadriiformes, Gaviiformes, Podicipediformes, and Gruiformes, consists of a complex landscape of bogs, marshes, lakes, ponds, and streams scattered across tundra on the coasts and inland.

The Canadian Arctic expedition 1913-18 and early advances in Arctic vertebrate zoology

(9,51) Cui (52) suggests that a large number of cross-species transmission events are probably also present in avihepadnaviruses, whose phylogeny does not match that of the host orders Gruiformes and Anseriformes.

Theories about evolutionary origins of human hepatitis B virus in primates and humans

Order Passeriformes was dominating with 57% species followed by Anseriformes (7%), Charadriiformes and Accipitriformes (6%) each, Columbiformes (5%), Galliformes and Falconiformes (4%) each, Pelecaniformes (3%), Coraciiformes and Gruiformes (2%) each, and Bucerotiformes, Apodiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Piciformes, Suliformes and Strigiformes (1%) each.

Avian Diversity in Central Karakoram National Park, Gilgit-Baltistans