- The
Gruiformes /ˈɡruːɪfɔːrmiːz/ are an
order containing a
considerable number of
living and
extinct bird families, with a
widespread geographical diversity...
- This is a list of
Gruiformes species by
global po****tion.
While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the
experts in
their fields. For more information...
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Flightless birds are
birds that,
through evolution, lost the
ability to fly.
There are over 60
extant species,
including the well-known
ratites (ostriches...
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Gruiformes (rails and cranes)
Charadriiformes (waders and relatives)...
- 1002/9781119990475.ch14 Cracraft, Joel (1968). "A
Review of the
Bathornithidae (Aves,
Gruiformes), with
Remarks on the
Relationships of the
Suborder Cariamae" (PDF). American...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 5
species Critically endangered (CR): 223
species Endangered (EN): 460
species Vulnerable (VU): 798
species Near threatened...
- in the
clade Eurypygiformes. The
sunbittern is
usually placed in the
Gruiformes, but this was
always considered preliminary. Altogether, the bird is most...
- Late
Quaternary prehistoric birds are
avian taxa that
became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late
Pleistocene or
Early Holocene – and
before recorded...
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Island gigantism, or
insular gigantism, is a
biological phenomenon in
which the size of an
animal species isolated on an
island increases dramatically...
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Extinct in the wild (EW): 5
species Critically endangered (CR): 223
species Endangered (EN): 460
species Vulnerable (VU): 798
species Near threatened...
