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Category:Apterygiformes - BirdForum Opus

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Southern Brown Kiwi
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Order: Apterygiformes

Description

This order contains the family Apterygidae, the Kiwis from New Zealand.
A very distinctive group of ratites. They have hair-like feathers, a long and slightly decurved bill and are flightless. They are mainly nocturnal.

Taxonomy

Apterygiformes is an order in the class Aves.
It was formerly included in the order Struthioniformes.


Order Apterygiformes view • edit

Family Apterygidae view • edit

Genus Apteryx view • edit
A. australis Southern Brown Kiwi
A. rowi Okarito Brown Kiwi
A. mantelli North Island Brown Kiwi
A. owenii Little Spotted Kiwi
A. haastii Great Spotted Kiwi

References

  1. Del Hoyo, J, A Elliot, and J Sargatal, eds. 1992. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Ostrich to Ducks. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions. ISBN 978-8487334108
  2. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/

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