Pelecaniformes

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Noun1.Pelecaniformes - pelicans; frigate birds; gannets; cormorants
animal order - the order of animals
Aves, class Aves - (ornithology) the class of birds
family Fregatidae, Fregatidae - frigate birds
family Sulidae, Sulidae - gannets and boobies
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Three major orders that are best sustained by LSNP other than Passeriformes are Coraciiformes (9 spp.), Acciptriformes (7 spp.), Pelecaniformes (4 spp.).
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.
It is one of the largest birds in the order Pelecaniformes, with adult males weighing 9.5-12.0 kg.
Pelicans, cormorants and their relatives, the Pelecaniformes.--Oxford Univ.
El analisis de la osteofauna aviar se realizo a partir de 685 fragmentos extraidos desde las nueve capas estratigraficas y estaria principalmente compuesto por los ordenes Suliformes, Procellariiformes y Pelecaniformes (Pena-Villalobos et al.
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.
La mayoria de las especies encontradas fueron del orden Charadriiformes con un total de 11 especies, seguidos de los Passeriformes y Pelecaniformes con un total de 6 especies cada una (Tabla 2).
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.
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