- Owls are
birds from the
order Strigiformes (/ˈstrɪdʒəfɔːrmiːz/),
which includes over 200
species of
mostly solitary and
nocturnal birds of prey typified...
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Ornithological Committee (IOC)
recognizes these 254
species of owl in
order Strigiformes; they are
distributed among 25
genera in two families. The 20 species...
- that are
found in many
parts of the world. Some of the
largest living Strigiformes are in Bubo. Traditionally, only owls with ear-tufts were
included in...
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Falconiformes and
Strigiformes. The
clade was
invalidated after 2012.
Falconiformes is now
placed in Eufalconimorphae,
while Strigiformes is
placed in Afroaves...
- of the
Strigiformes was only
weakly supported by
their data.
Stiller et al. (2024)
recovered the
Afroaves as a
clade but with the
Strigiformes as sister...
- that the most
basal extant members of both
Afroaves (Accipitrimorphae,
Strigiformes) and
Australaves (Cariamiformes, Falconiformes) are
birds of prey, it...
- This list of owls is not comprehensive, as not all
Strigiformes have had
their numbers quantified. For a
simple list of all owl species, see the article...
- (1978). "Plio-Pleistocene Bird
Remains from the
Carpathian Basin. III.
Strigiformes, Falconiformes, Caprimulgiformes, Apodiformes". Aquila. 84: 9–36....
- This item
lists those birds of
South Asia in the Megapodes, Galliformes,
Gruiformes and near p****erines. For an
introduction to the
birds of the region...
-
database for
Strigiformes is
highly diverse and
shows an
origin from ~60MYA into the Pleistocene. The
maximum age
range for the
Strigiformes clade extends...
