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Topic: Sagittaridae

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	Eagles and Falcons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Generally, the newly hatched chicks are overwhelmed by siblings, which first eat their food and then kill and devour them.
		The about 200 species, spread all over the world, are divided into five families: Catartidae(condors, New-World vultures), Sagittaridae (secretary birds), Pandionidae (ospreys), Falconidae (falcons) e Accipitridae (eagles, sparrowhawks, buzzards, harriers, Old-World vultures).
		While eagles and condors are considered by many peoples as symbols of pride and nobility, other Accipitriformes and Falconiformes, as vultures, are perceived negatively and unjustly persecuted, since they are believed to be fierce, bloodthirsty and even filthy.
	www.musei.unina.it /Zoologia/eng/4.2.2.6.7.2.htm (394 words)

	Accipitriformes - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is not used in classification schemes which regard the Falconidae (falcons and caracas) as part of the same group as the Accipitridae (hawks, eagles and allies).
		Family Sagittaridae: Secretary Bird The position of the Accipitridae is not in question.
		However, some authorities place the New World vultures in Ciconiiformes on the grounds that DNA evidence indicates that they are more closely related to the storks than to the Accipitridae.
	www.erdmond.com /Accipitriformes.html (241 words)

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