Chachalacas, Currasows, Guans, Malleefowl and Scrubfowls
Scientific name:
- Craciformes
Craciformes
Organism Classification
Higher classification:
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Gruiformes
The Gruiformes are an order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird families, with a widespread geographical diversity. Gruiform means "crane-like". Traditionally, a number of wading and terrestrial bird families that did not seem to belong to any other order were classified... -
Galliformes
Galliformes are an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding domestic or game birds, containing turkey, grouse, chicken, New and Old World Quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, and the Cracidae. Common names are gamefowl or gamebirds, landfowl, gallinaceous birds or galliforms. "Wildfowl" or just "fowl... -
Falconiformes
The order Falconiformes is a group of about 290 species of birds that comprises the diurnal birds of prey. Raptor classification is difficult and the order is treated in several ways. Traditionally, all the raptors are grouped into four families in this single order. However, in Europe, it has... -
Penguin
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become... -
Trochiliformes
In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, Apodiformes is raised to a superorder Apodimorphae in which hummingbirds are separated as a new order, Trochiliformes, but this was refuted by subsequent research. Hermits and Hummingbirds -
Upupiformes
Hoopoes and Scimitarbill. In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, the Hoopoe is separated from the Coraciiformes as a separate order, the Upupiformes.
