Definition of Pandionidae. Meaning of Pandionidae. Synonyms of Pandionidae

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Definition of Pandionidae

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Meaning of Pandionidae from wikipedia

- fish-eating bird of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae. Most taxonomic treatments have regarded this genus as containing a single...
- characteristics it is classified in its own taxonomic genus, Pandion, and family, Pandionidae. The osprey was described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus...
- secretarybird was sister to a clade containing the ospreys in the family Pandionidae and the kites, hawks and eagles in the family Accipitridae. The same...
- Accipitriformes Accipitridae (eagles, harriers, hawks, kites, Old World vultures) Pandionidae (ospreys) (1 or 2 species) Cathartidae (Cathartid vultures and condors)...
- included in this group. The osprey is usually placed in a separate family (Pandionidae), as is the secretary bird (Sagittariidae), and the New World vultures...
- termed a "sea-eagle", although ospreys come from the taxonomic family Pandionidae and are not classified as true sea eagles. Birds portal Brahminy kite...
- Cathartidae (New World vultures and condors), Sagittariidae (secretarybird), Pandionidae (ospreys), Accipitridae (hawks) were classified in Falconiformes. A variety...
- This list is based on the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds list, May 2002 update, with the doubtfuls omitted. It includes the birds...
- †Horusornithidae Horusornis Pandionidae Pandion Sagittariidae †Amanuensis †Amphiserpentarius †Pelargopappus Sagittarius Accipitridae...
- †Horusornithidae Horusornis Pandionidae Pandion Sagittariidae †Amanuensis †Amphiserpentarius †Pelargopappus Sagittarius Accipitridae...