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order Coraciiformes - rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies

animal order - the order of animals

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

coraciiform bird - chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes

Coraciidae, family Coraciidae - rollers

Alcedinidae, family Alcedinidae - kingfishers

family Meropidae, Meropidae - bee-eaters

Bucerotidae, family Bucerotidae - hornbills

family Upupidae, Upupidae - hoopoes

family Phoeniculidae, Phoeniculidae - wood hoopoes

family Momotidae, Momotidae - a family of birds of the order Coraciiformes

family Todidae, Todidae - a family of birds of the order Coraciiformes

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References in periodicals archive

Upupidae (2 spp.), Coraciidae (1 sp.), Halcyonidae (1sp.), Alcedinidae (1 sp.), Meropidae (2 spp.), Cuculidae (2 spp.) belonged to order Coraciiformes. Stigiformes included Strigidae (5 spp.), Columbidae contained 5 species that belonged to columbiformes.

STUDY OF VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AT LAL SUHANRA NATIONAL PARK, PAKISTAN

Yet there is one exception--the birds of the order Coraciiformes, which include the kingfishers and bee-eaters, avian ambassadors from the luxuriant tropics to temperate Mediterranean latitudes.

Mediterranean tropical plumages

The extremely small size (5-7 g) of todies, together with their taxonomic affinities (Order Coraciiformes) and tropical distribution, suggest that the thermoregulatory physiology of these birds merits detailed investigation.

ECOLOGICAL ENERGETICS OF THE PUERTO RICAN TODY: HETEROTHERMY, TORPOR, AND INTRA-ISLAND VARIATION

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