ciconiiform

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• ciconiiform — ▪ bird Introduction    any member of the five or six families of storklike (stork) birds (bird): herons (heron) and bitterns (bittern) (Ardeidae), the shoebill (sole species of the Balaenicipitidae), the hammerhead (sole species of the Scopidae) …   Universalium

• List of fossil birds — Birds are generally believed to have evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and dinosaurs, except of course that some of the former survived the Cretaceous Tertiary extinction event… …   Wikipedia

• Stork — For other uses, see Stork (disambiguation). Storks Immature Asian Openbill Stork Scientific classification …   Wikipedia

• Painted Stork — Adult at Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, India Conservation status …   Wikipedia

• Night heron — Black crowned Night Heron, Nycticorax nycticorax Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Mycteria — Temporal range: Middle Miocene to Recent Yellow billed Storks (Mycteria ibis) Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Pelagornithidae — Temporal range: Late Paleocene Early Pleistocene 58.7–2.5 Ma …   Wikipedia

• Ardeidae — Reiher Seidenreiher (Egretta garzetta) Systematik Unterstamm: Wirbeltiere (Vertebrata) …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Reiher — Seidenreiher (Egretta garzetta) Systematik Unterstamm: Wirbeltiere (Vertebrata) Überklasse …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …   Universalium