order Ciconiiformes

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Related to order Ciconiiformes: white stork, Phoenicopteriformes, Cathartiformes

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order Ciconiiformes - order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises

Ciconiiformes

animal order - the order of animals

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

Ciconiidae, family Ciconiidae - storks

Balaenicipitidae, family Balaenicipitidae - shoebills

family Ibidiidae, family Threskiornithidae, Threskiornithidae - ibises

family Plataleidae, Plataleidae - spoonbills

family Phoenicopteridae, Phoenicopteridae - flamingos

Ardeidae, family Ardeidae - herons; egrets; night herons; bitterns

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Rostratulidae contained only one species that belonged to order Ciconiiformes. Charadriiformes included Burhinidae (1 sp.), Recurvirostridae (1 sp.) and Charadriidae (2 spp.).

STUDY OF VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AT LAL SUHANRA NATIONAL PARK, PAKISTAN

Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) belongs to the order Ciconiiformes and family Ardeidae (Ali, 1996).

Habitat Ecology and Breeding Performance of Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis) in Faisalabad, Pakistan

macularia in the order Ciconiiformes; and Aphelocoma coerulescens, Catharus mustelinus, Dendroica discolor, Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus, Melospiza melodia, and Parus major in the order Passeriformes.

AVIAN LIFE HISTORY VARIATION AND CONTRIBUTION OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRAITS TO THE POPULATION GROWTH RATE