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Topic: Cuculiformes

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	HBW. Family Pages: Family Texts (Sample Text) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nevertheless, in recent years there has been a strong move to link it with the Cuculiformes, where it is sometimes placed in close association with the anis (Crotophaga) and the peculiar Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira).
		In contrast, recent evidence from egg-white protein, DNA-DNA hybridization, scleral ossicles (bones of the eye-ring) and behaviour suggest its affinities are with the Cuculiformes.
		However, the evidence is equivocal, and the fact that the Hoatzin has the anisodactyl foot of most birds, with a single toe pointing backwards, rather than the zygodactyl foot of the cuckoos, with two toes that can be turned backwards, has been considered a major obstacle to this view.
	www.hbw.com /hbw/tour/famil211.html (1473 words)

	Palaeos Vertebrates: 370.200 Falconiformes & Allies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mindell found that sequence C occurred in the falconiforms, cuculiforms, piciforms and in suboscine passeriforms.
		In fact, the clustering was so striking that the phylogeny here has been re-arranged on the assumption that this is in fact the true phylogenetic signal.
		This conformation does require that the cuculiforms be separated from the Musophagidae.
	www.palaeos.com /Vertebrates/Units/Unit370/370.200.html (1974 words)

	Cuculiformes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The near passerine bird order Cuculiformes traditionally included three families as below:
		However, the taxonomy of this group is now controversial.
		Although the DNA evidence places it with the Cuculiformes, it has structural features inconsistent with that group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuculiformes (80 words)

	Cuckoo, Birds, Cuckoo, Bird Pictures, Catalog, Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Date : 10/15/2005 Time : 1:12:38 PM The name cuckoo is used for some of the 127 species of birds of the cuckoo family, Cuculidae, order Cuculiformes.
		Some cuckoos are known to be brood parasites--birds that build no nests of their own but leave their eggs in the nests of other birds, which then rear the young.
		The glossy cuckoos, however, are a striking emerald green.
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	The Cuckoos
		The Cuculiformes is a medium sized order comprising 143 species in 6 families and 30 genera many of which are brood parasites and thus fit the classical image of a cuckoo.
		Looking somewhat like a pheasant their affinities are unsure, they were considered to be part of the galliformes for some time before more modern analyses moved them to the cuculiformes.
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	www.earthlife.net /birds/cuculiformes.html (1941 words)

	Birds of India - CUCULIFORMES - Centropodidae - Cuculidae - Cuckoos - Coucals - Malkohas - Birding - Zygodactyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Birds of India - CUCULIFORMES - Centropodidae - Cuculidae - Cuckoos - Coucals - Malkohas - Birding - Zygodactyl
		Members of the order CUCULIFORMES are largish land birds with zygodactyl feet (fourth toe permanently reversed), large, often decurved bills, and long tails.
		The taxonomy of this group continues to be uncertain, and is comprised of three to six families.
	www.birding.in /orders/cuculiformes.htm (102 words)

	Articles - Cuckoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The group gets its English and scientific names from the call of the Common Cuckoo, which is also familar from cuckoo clocks.
		The order Cuculiformes, in addition to the cuckoos, also includes the turacos (family Musophagidae, sometimes treated as a separate order, Musophagiformes).
		Some zoologists have also included the unique Hoatzin in the Cuculiformes, though it is now placed in an order of its own, Opisthocomiformes.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Cuckoo?mySession=4387a9fdc08a23d136d3fbdff3cd92dd (304 words)

	turaco -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The red colour in the wings of white-crested turacos (Tauraco leucolophus) is caused by …
		(family Musophagidae), also spelled touraco, also called lourie or plantain-eater any of about 18 species of African birds that are classified with the cuckoos (order Cuculiformes) or separated as a distinct order, Musophagiformes.
		(order Cuculiformes), any member of the cosmopolitan group containing two very distinct families, the cuckoos (Cuculidae; see) and the turacos, or plantain-eaters (Musophagidae).
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	Turaco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The turacos, plantain eaters and go-away birds make up the bird family Musophagidae (literally banana-eaters).
		Traditionally, this group has been placed in the cuckoo order Cuculiformes, but Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy raises this group to a full order Musophagiformes
		This is an African group of largish arboreal birds.
	www.theezine.net /t/turaco.html (157 words)

	Cuckoo family
		It is agreed that all the cuckoos form an Order of birds: the Cuculiformes.
		Most recent arrangements do not include the Hoatzin among the Cuculiformes.
		The Hoatzin aside (which has a separate page on this web site), the only question is how many families to create out of the diversity in the Cuculiformes.
	montereybay.com /creagrus/cuckoos.html (2525 words)

	More Taxa, More Characters: The Hoatzin Problem Is Still Unresolved -- Sorenson et al. 20 (9): 1484 -- Molecular ...
		Ciconiiformes (Sibley and Ahlquist 1990), and an inclusive Cuculiformes,
		Hughes, J. Phylogenetic analysis of the cuculidae (Aves, Cuculiformes) using behavioral and ecological characters.
		Monophyly and phylogeny of cuckoos (Aves, Cuculidae) inferred from osteological characters.
	mbe.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/msg157?ijkey=58zzrphrQM3W2&keytype=ref (7750 words)

	Merriam-Webster Online
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