order Coraciiformes

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order Coraciiformes - rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies

Coraciiformes

animal order - the order of animals

Aves, class Aves - (ornithology) the class of birds

coraciiform bird - chiefly short-legged arboreal nonpasserine birds that nest in holes

Coraciidae, family Coraciidae - rollers

Alcedinidae, family Alcedinidae - kingfishers

family Meropidae, Meropidae - bee-eaters

Bucerotidae, family Bucerotidae - hornbills

family Upupidae, Upupidae - hoopoes

family Phoeniculidae, Phoeniculidae - wood hoopoes

family Momotidae, Momotidae - a family of birds of the order Coraciiformes

family Todidae, Todidae - a family of birds of the order Coraciiformes

References in periodicals archive ?

Upupidae (2 spp.), Coraciidae (1 sp.), Halcyonidae (1sp.), Alcedinidae (1 sp.), Meropidae (2 spp.), Cuculidae (2 spp.) belonged to order Coraciiformes. Stigiformes included Strigidae (5 spp.), Columbidae contained 5 species that belonged to columbiformes.

STUDY OF VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY AT LAL SUHANRA NATIONAL PARK, PAKISTAN

Yet there is one exception--the birds of the order Coraciiformes, which include the kingfishers and bee-eaters, avian ambassadors from the luxuriant tropics to temperate Mediterranean latitudes.

Mediterranean tropical plumages

The extremely small size (5-7 g) of todies, together with their taxonomic affinities (Order Coraciiformes) and tropical distribution, suggest that the thermoregulatory physiology of these birds merits detailed investigation.

ECOLOGICAL ENERGETICS OF THE PUERTO RICAN TODY: HETEROTHERMY, TORPOR, AND INTRA-ISLAND VARIATION