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n. - Order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons.

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  • In addition, 21 of 23 species of the order Ciconiiformes of Mexico inhabit these mangroves.
  • Special international research is conducted here on ecology and biology of waterfowl (Steganopodes, Ciconiiformes), as well as on herring gull (Larus argentatus) and...
  • DNA hybridization places penguins within an enlarged Ciconiiformes and estimates a close relationship between penguins, loons, frigate-birds and tubenoses (procellariids).
  • Aves: Ciconiiformes) from the Pleistocene of Liang Bua, Flores Indonesia)
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