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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Coraciiformes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Coraciiformes are a group of usually colourful near passerine birds including the kingfishers, the Hoopoe, the bee-eaters, the rollers, and the hornbills.
		During the Eocene and Oligocene, the coraciiformes were arguably the most specious of the bird lineages, and certainly enjoyed a wide range, with representatives on of the Laurasian continents.
		Meanwhile, in Africa, the Pliocene saw a new adaptive radiation of Coracii, the primitive branch of Coraciiformes supposedly relegated to obscurity by the twitaviforms.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Coraciiformes (303 words)

	p-Coraciiformes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The coraciiforms of our timeline are a diverse group, even though their number of species is relatively small.
		Readers are, by this point, probably waiting for a sentence along the lines of: "In Spec, the situation is different." Strangely, however, Spec's coraciiform evolution has been very similar to that of our timeline.
		Certainly, todies, rollers and hornbills have never evolved in Spec, because their ecological niches are already occupied by jaubs, cacklers and scytherbills; but Spec's p-Coraciiformes contains the nearcrows (Parabrachypteraciidae) and the kingfishers (p-Alcedinidae), which are very similar in shape, diet and distribution to their Home-Earth counterparts.
	www.bowdoin.edu /%7Edbensen/Spec/Coraciiformes-Na.html (281 words)

	Coraciiformes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coraciiformes are a group of usually colourful near passerine birds including the kingfishers, the Hoopoe, the bee-eaters, the rollers, and the hornbills.
		This order has been seen to be something of a mixed assortment, and the Coraciiformes may be considered as including only the rollers.
		All the other families can be considered to represent lineages of birds distantly related to Coraciiformes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coraciiformes (126 words)

	Aves-NA
		During the Eocene and Oligocene, the coraciiformes were arguably the most specious of the bird lineages, and certainly enjoyed a wide range, with representatives on of the Laurasian continents.
		With the rise of clade Twitaviformes, however, the coraciiform march of progress began to falter, the clade becoming completely extinct in the Old World, but for a few strongholds in Africa and Madagascar.
		Meanwhile, in Africa, the Pliocene saw a new adaptive radiation of Coracii, the primitive branch of Coraciiformes supposedly relegated to obscurity by the twitaviforms.
	www.geocities.com /dbensen2/Spec/Avialae.html (925 words)

	bee-eater -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Although some of these interactions are occasional and opportunistic, others are regular parts of everyday life and may be called symbiotic—i.e., one that brings mutual benefit to the different species involved.
		Coraciiform birds, diverse in their structure and behaviour, occupy a variety of habitats.
		A species may be considered to occupy a feeding and, during the breeding season, a nesting habitat, and these may or may not be contiguous.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9014087?tocId=9014087 (805 words)

	Search Results for hoopoe - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Collectively, the 10 families of the order are almost worldwide in distribution in temperate and tropical areas, with the greatest number and diversity in the warmer parts of the African, southern...
		The history and some of the family relationships within the Coraciiformes are obscure, so that any treatment of the evolution of the order must be considered speculative.
		Coraciiform birds tend to perch in trees and shrubs when at rest.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=hoopoe&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (364 words)

	p-Coraciiformes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Coraciiformes of our timeline are a diverse group, even though their number of species is relatively small.
		Readers are, by this point, probably waiting for the usual sentence: "In Spec, the situation is different." However, Spec's coraciiform evolution has been very similar to that of our timeline.
		Certainly, todies, rollers and hornbills have never evolved in Spec, because their ecological niches are already occupied by jaubs, cacklers and scytherbills; but p-Coraciiformes does contain the nearcrows (Parabrachypteraciidae) and the kingfishers (p-Alcedinidae).
	www.unet.univie.ac.at /~a0000265/Coraciiformes.htm (348 words)

	Digimorph - Alcedo cristata (Malachite kingfisher)
		Kingfishers are members of ‘Coraciiformes’, which traditionally includes Leptosomidae, Coraciidae, Brachypteraciidae, Upupidae, Phoeniculidae, Bucerotidae, Meropidae, Todidae, and Momotidae (Mayr et al., 2003).
		Although the coraciiforms may not be a natural grouping, there is evidence (both morphological and molecular) that Alcedinidae (kingfishers), Meropidae, Momotidae, and Todidae form a monophyletic group (Maurer and Raikow, 1981; Burton, 1984; Sibley and Ahlquist, 1990; Mayr et al., 2003).
		Kingfishers are diagnosed by myological features including the extensor metacarpi ulnaris origin being fused with that of ectepicondyloulnaris, fibularis longus branch to FPD3 tendon being absent, and the flexor hallucis longus directly suppling only digits III and IV (Maurer and Raikow, 1981).
	www.digimorph.org /specimens/Alcedo_cristata/whole (638 words)

	Coraciiformes TAG Buceros SSP Veterinary Advisor Annual Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Coraciiformes TAG Buceros SSP Veterinary Advisor Annual Report
		Veterinary Advisory Group (VAG) recommendations for pre-shipment and quarantine of Coraciiformes was updated and released in April 2004.
		Coraciiformes TAG (hornbills) Veterinary Advisor (Gamble) reviewed the EAZA Hornbill husbandry manual veterinary section at their request.
	www.aazv.org /coraciiformes_annual_report_2004.htm (591 words)

	Kingfisher, Birds, Kingfisher, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Date : 10/13/2005 Time : 5:02:09 PM Kingfisher is the common name for members of the cosmopolitan avian family Alcedinidae, order Coraciiformes, which also includes the Australian kookaburra, Dacelo gigas.
		The greatest number of species are found in the tropics and subtropics.
		The most familiar of the tree kingfishers, subfamily Daceloninae, is the kookaburra, known for its variety of loud calls, some of which are reminiscent of human laughter.
	www.4to40.com /4to40.com_non_ssl/earth/geography/htm/birdsindex.asp?counter=54 (229 words)

	CORACIIFORMES PREVENTIVE MEDICINE GUIDELINES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The order Coraciiformes includes a diverse species base: hornbills, kingfishers, rollers, mot mots, bee-eaters, hoopoes, woodhoopoes, and todies.
		An addendum will be provided by the Coraciiformes TAG when an established testing protocol is in place.
		Asian hornbills are purported to have a predisposition to hemochromatosis but this has yet to be documented; this biomaterials request will provide samples to assess this risk.
	www.aazv.org /coraciiformes_prev_med_guide.htm (749 words)

	Birds of India - CORACIIFORMES - Kingfishers - Rollers - Bee-Eaters - Syndactyl - Birding - Birders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Birds of India - CORACIIFORMES - Kingfishers - Rollers - Bee-Eaters - Syndactyl - Birding - Birders
		Birds of the Coraciiformes are usually colorful, monogamous and nest in cavities.
		Their young are altricial and retain waxy sheaths on their feathers until just before fledging.
	www.birding.in /orders/coraciiformes.htm (124 words)

	Coraciidae - Rollers - Coraciiformes - Birds of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Coraciidae - Rollers - Coraciiformes - Birds of India
		This bird family, collectively known as Rollers, shares a number of skull characteristics that separate them from other families in the Coraciiformes order.
		While some anatomical features are similar to Alcedinidae (Kingfishers), Meropidae (Bee-eaters) and Brachypteraciidae (Ground-Rollers), a primitive condition of the middle-ear bone suggests that Coraciidae (Rollers) are a distinct, more primitive group.
	www.birding.in /birds/Coraciiformes/coraciidae.htm (800 words)

	2005 NCSU UGRS Physical & Mathematical Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The fossil birds of the Green River Formation of Wyoming have yet to be studied in detail, yet they comprise an important assemblage.
		Living Coraciiformes, or rollers, are medium-sized birds with colorful plumage, named for their characteristic acrobatic flight.
		Three families of fossil Coraciiformes (Primobucconidae, Eocoraciidae, Geranopteridae) and 2 of extant taxa (Coraciidae, Brachypteraciidae) were considered in identification of the fossil’s group.
	www.ncsu.edu /ugrs/phyabs.htm (5341 words)

	Tody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The todies are a family of tropical birds in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
		They eat small prey such as insects and lizards.
		Like most of the Coraciiformes, todies nest in tunnels in the ground, laying about four white eggs.
	www.theezine.net /t/tody.html (90 words)

	Accession 01-096 - Martin H. Moynihan Papers, 1952-1996
		Coraciiformes - Kingfishers, Hornbills, Rollers, Bee-eaters, Wood hoopoe, etc.
		Coraciiformes, schedule of field work and notes, 1976, 1977
		Coraciiformes, Washington, DC, and Portobello, Panama, 1986, 1987
	www.si.edu /archives/archives/findingaids/fa01-096.html (1684 words)

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		The members of the order Coraciiformes eat vertebrates, invertebrates, and fruit.
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	www.skullsunlimited.com /coraciiformes.html (311 words)

	Classification of birds of South America Part 05
		Traditional classifications have considered the Trogonidae to be more closely related to the Coraciiformes than to other orders, or to a group that includes Coraciiformes + Piciformes; see reviews in Sibley and Ahlquist (1990), Espinosa de los Monteros (2000), and Mayr (2003); some genetic data (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990) are consistent with this view.
		A recent analysis of morphological data (Mayr 2003b, Mayr and Clarke 2003) suggest that the Steatornithidae and the Trogoniformes and might be sister taxa.
		Sibley-Ahlquist (1990) divided the family into three families, which consist of the three traditional subfamilies elevated to family rank (Alcedinidae, Dacelonidae, and Cerylidae because of DNA-DNA hybridization data indicated deep divergences among these three; New World kingfishers were placed in the Cerylidae.
	www.museum.lsu.edu /~Remsen/SACCBaseline05.html (7977 words)

	Motmot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The motmots or Momotidae are a family of tropical birds in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
		They eat small prey such as insects and lizards, and will also take fruit.
		Like most of the Coraciiformes, motmots nest in tunnels in banks, laying about four white eggs.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Motmot.htm (154 words)

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