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Accipitriformes, the Glossary

The Accipitriformes are an order of birds that includes most of the diurnal birds of prey, including hawks, eagles, vultures, and kites, but not falcons.^[1]

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Bird orders
Eocene taxonomic orders
Extant Lutetian first appearances
Holocene taxonomic orders
Miocene taxonomic orders
Oligocene taxonomic orders
Pleistocene taxonomic orders
Pliocene taxonomic orders

Accipiter

Accipiter is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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The Accipitridae is one of the three families within the order Accipitriformes, and is a family of small to large birds of prey with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet. Accipitriformes and Accipitridae are taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot.

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American Ornithological Society

The American Ornithological Society (AOS) is an ornithological organization based in the United States.

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Bald eagle

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) is a bird of prey found in North America.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Bird of prey

Birds of prey or predatory birds, also known as raptors, are hypercarnivorous bird species that actively hunt and feed on other vertebrates (mainly mammals, reptiles and other smaller birds).

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Carnivore

A carnivore, or meat-eater (Latin, caro, genitive carnis, meaning meat or "flesh" and vorare meaning "to devour"), is an animal or plant whose food and energy requirements are met by the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging.

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Cathartiformes

The Cathartiformes order of scavenging birds includes the New World vultures and the now-extinct Teratornithidae.

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Cinereous harrier

The cinereous harrier (Circus cinereus) is a South American bird of prey of the harrier family. Accipitriformes and cinereous harrier are taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot.

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Claw

A claw is a curved, pointed appendage found at the end of a toe or finger in most amniotes (mammals, reptiles, birds).

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Diurnality

Diurnality is a form of plant and animal behavior characterized by activity during daytime, with a period of sleeping or other inactivity at night.

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Eagle

Eagle is the common name for the golden eagle, bald eagle, and other birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Eocene

The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).

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Falcon

Falcons are birds of prey in the genus Falco, which includes about 40 species. Some small species of falcons with long, narrow wings are called hobbies, and some that hover while hunting are called kestrels. Falcons are widely distributed on all continents of the world except Antarctica, though closely related raptors did occur there in the Eocene.

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Falconiformes

The order Falconiformes is represented by the extant family Falconidae (falcons and caracaras) and a handful of enigmatic Paleogene species. Accipitriformes and Falconiformes are bird orders, Eocene taxonomic orders, Holocene taxonomic orders, Miocene taxonomic orders, Oligocene taxonomic orders, Pleistocene taxonomic orders and Pliocene taxonomic orders.

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Galapagos hawk

The Galápagos hawk (Buteo galapagoensis) is a large hawk endemic to most of the Galápagos Islands.

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Greater spotted eagle

The greater spotted eagle (Clanga clanga), also called the spotted eagle, is a large migratory bird of prey in the family Accipitridae.

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Harpy eagle

The harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) is a large neotropical species of eagle.

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Harrier (bird)

A harrier is any of the several species of diurnal hawks sometimes placed in the subfamily Circinae of the bird of prey family Accipitridae.

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Hawk

Hawks are birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.

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Kite (bird)

Kite is the common name for certain birds of prey in the family Accipitridae, particularly in subfamilies Milvinae, Elaninae, and Perninae.

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List of Accipitriformes species

Accipitriformes is one of three major orders of birds of prey and includes the osprey, hawks, eagles, kites, and vultures.

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Louis Pierre Vieillot

Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist.

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Lumpers and splitters

Lumpers and splitters are opposing factions in any discipline that has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories.

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Monogamy in animals

Monogamous pairing in animals refers to the natural history of mating systems in which species pair bond to raise offspring.

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New World vulture

Cathartidae, known commonly as New World vultures or condors, are a family of birds of prey consisting of seven extant species in five genera.

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Nostril

A nostril (or naris,: nares) is either of the two orifices of the nose.

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Old World vulture

Old World vultures are vultures that are found in the Old World, i.e. the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and which belong to the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, buzzards, kites, and hawks.

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Order (biology)

Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Osprey

The osprey (Pandion haliaetus), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range.

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Pandion (bird)

Pandion is a genus of fish-eating bird of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae.

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Parrot

Parrots (Psittaciformes), also known as psittacines, are birds with a strong curved beak, upright stance, and clawed feet.

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Passerine

A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes (from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species.

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Reproduction

Reproduction (or procreation or breeding) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parent" or parents.

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Sagittariidae

Sagittariidae is a family of raptor with one living species—the secretarybird (Sagittarius serpentarius) native to Africa—and a few fossil taxa.

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Secretarybird

The secretarybird or secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a large bird of prey that is endemic to Africa.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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