Gaviiformes


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Related to Gaviiformes: Gruiformes, Podicipediformes
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Noun1.Gaviiformes - large aquatic birds: loons and some extinct forms
animal order - the order of animals
Aves, class Aves - (ornithology) the class of birds
gaviiform seabird - seabirds of the order Gaviiformes
family Gavidae, Gavidae - loon family
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tubifex (Nitzsch and Rudolphi, 1819) Jagerskiold, 1909, are known to occur in the New World; the definitive hosts of the former are piscivorous birds belonging to the orders Ciconiiformes and Pelecaniformes and that of the latter are Gaviiformes, Anseriformes, Ciconiiformes and Podicipediformes birds.
Gaviiformes (loons), podicipediformes (grebes), and procellariiformes (albatrosses, fulmars, petrels, storm petrels, and shearwaters).
In our study, the common carotid artery gave off the vertebral trunk in the sparrowhawk as in the long-legged buzzard (Erdogan & Kilinc), the Eurasian bittern (Erdogan) and some bird families such as Coliiformes (Glenny, 1944), Gaviiformes (Glenny, 1945), Charadriiformes (Glenny, 1947), Caprimulgiformes (Glenny, 1953a) and Ciconiiformes (Glenny, 1953b).