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Shorebirds and their relatives --> sandpipers, gulls and terns, auks, etc.
Live near water and eat invertebrates and other small animals. |
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Raptors: falcons, caracaras, kestrels, falconets. Kills with their beaks.
Can be found everywhere except dense forests of Africa. |
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Seabirds: albatrosses, petrels, and shearwaters.
Pelagic - feeding in the open ocean |
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| Loons. Found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia. |
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| Frigate birds, gannets, boobies, comorants, and shags. Mainly water birds. |
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| Water birds with totipalmate feet -- completely webbed. |
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Waterfowl -- ducks, geese, swans, screamers.
Adapted for aquatic existence. |
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"crane-like" and number of wading and terrestrial birds.
Rails, coots, grebes, cranes, etc. |
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| Turacos, plaintain-eaters |
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| Tinamous -- Mexico, Central America, and South America. |
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| Birds of Prey -- hawks, eagles, vultures |
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Night jars, pootoos, owlet, etc.
Insectivorous and nocturnal. |
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| Game birds -- grouse, quails, pheasants, chickens, etc. |
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| Parrots, Maccaws, lories, cockatoos |
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Swifts and hummingbirds.
Legs are small and have limited function aside from perching. |
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Kingfishers and Kingfisher allies.
3 forward facing toes (3 & 4 toe fused) |
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Woodpeckers, toucans, and allies -- mainly insectivores, and fruit.
Have zygodactyl feet (two toes forward and two back) |
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| Mousebirds -- confined to sub-Saharan Africa. |
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| Cassowary and Emu -- large flightless birds native to Australia - New Guinea |
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| Grebes -- freshwater diving birds. |
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