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Range of the swifts and hummingbirds. Synonyms. Trochiliformes Wagler, 1830. Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes / ˈæpədɪfɔːrmiːz / contained three living families: the swifts (Apodidae), the treeswifts (Hemiprocnidae), and the hummingbirds (Trochilidae). In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this order is raised to a superorder ...
Apodiformes. Range of the swifts and hummingbirds. Apodiformes is an order of birds with long narrow wings and weak feet. It is made up of the swifts and the hummingbirds. With nearly 450 species identified to date, they are the most diverse order of birds after the passerines.
Los apodiformes (del griego a, "sin" y podos, "pies") son un orden de aves neognatas caracterizadas por el pequeño tamaño de las patas, lo que da nombre al orden. Se conocen 438 especies. 1 .
This is a list of Apodiformes species by global population. While numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. For more information on how these estimates were ascertained, see Wikipedia's articles on population biology and population ecology.
apodiform, (order Apodiformes), any member of one of two groups of birds, the swifts and the hummingbirds, that are very different from one another in general appearance and way of life. The two groups, considered suborders, are the Apodi, which contains the families Hemiprocnidae for the tree swifts (also called crested swifts) and Apodidae ...
Apodiformes. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Apodiformes. Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes contained three families: the swifts, Apodidae, the treeswifts, Hemiprocnidae, and the hummingbirds, Trochilidae. The owlet-nightjars seem also to belong into this order according to recent research.
Hatched with natal down; a distinct juvenile plumage unlike that of adults; adult plumage with crests or plumes on head. 1 genus, 4 species. Family Apodidae ( true swifts) Hallux lateral or nearly so, reversible in some; foot incapable of true perching; claw present on hand.
