Other Landbird Orders is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers bird orders that live mainly on land and in trees rather than on or beside water, and that are not birds of prey, passerines, fowl or flightless palaeognaths, such as the parrots, the pigeons and doves, the swifts and hummingbirds, the woodpeckers and toucans and the kingfishers. An entry belongs here when its own cited article describes an order of terrestrial birds that fits none of those four named land bird groups. It excludes the waterbird orders. The group collects the many smaller land bird orders in one place so a reader can compare their very different bills, feet and ways of feeding.
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Piciformes (Wikipedia)
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largely arboreal birds make up the order Piciformes
Psittaciformes (Wikipedia)
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Parrots (order Psittaciformes)
Wikipedia: Columbidae
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It is the only family in the order Columbiformes.
Apodiformes (Wikipedia)
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an order, or taxonomic grouping, of birds
Coraciiformes (Wikipedia)
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a group of usually colourful birds including the kingfishers, the bee-eaters, the rollers
Wikipedia: Nightjar
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Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds
Wikipedia: Opisthocomidae
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Opisthocomidae is a family of birds, the only named family within the order Opisthocomiformes.
Wikipedia: Cuckoo
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Cuckoos and Roadrunners are birds in the family Cuculidae, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes.
Wikipedia: Bucerotiformes
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is an order of birds that contains the hornbills, ground hornbills, hoopoes and wood hoopoes
Wikipedia: Trogon
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The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes
Wikipedia: Mousebird
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The mousebirds are birds in the order Coliiformes.
Wikipedia: Sandgrouse
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members of the order Pterocliformes
Wikipedia: Bustard
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Bustards, including floricans and korhaans, are large, terrestrial birds
Wikipedia: Turaco
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The turacos make up the bird family Musophagidae
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