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Meet Suliformes, one of the newest orders of birds

10,000 Birds

That larger clade is in turn sister to a clade containing the four remaining totipalmate bird families, which do still seem to be related, and which needed a new order name once pelicans were removed. But meanwhile, let’s look at the four avian families that comprise the brand new order Suliformes.

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Birding crème de la crème: Asia – Corbett to Taman Negara

10,000 Birds

So I lowered my threshold to 500 and that worked well… for Costa Rica and South America, that is (especially Peru). Indian Rhinoceros in Kaziranga, photo Anuwar Hazarika/Wikimedia Commons. In early November 2020, there were 15 countries with more than 1000 species eBirded so far.

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