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Coliiformes

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Coliiformes is a bird order comprising the mousebirds, a group now confined to sub-Saharan Africa, making it essentially the only bird order restricted to a single continent. Mousebirds were far more widespread in the Paleogene, with fossils found across Europe and North America during the Paleocene.

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Order 1
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1. Wikipedia: Mousebird
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The mousebirds are birds in the order Coliiformes.
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