order Columbiformes


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Related to order Columbiformes: Columbidae
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Noun1.order Columbiformes - sand grouseorder Columbiformes - sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires
Columbiformes
animal order - the order of animals
Aves, class Aves - (ornithology) the class of birds
columbiform bird - a cosmopolitan order of land birds having small heads and short legs with four unwebbed toes
family Raphidae, Raphidae - extinct dodos and solitaires
Columbidae, family Columbidae - doves and pigeons
family Pteroclididae, Pteroclididae - sandgrouses
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To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of any form of kleptoparasitism among birds of the order Columbiformes (Baptista et al., 1997) and the only known case of kleptoparasitism on harvester ants (MacMahon et al., 2000).
Doves kleptoparasitize ants
(6) To our knowledge, this is the first description of hypopi of H propus in the southern crowned pigeon (Order Columbiformes).
Hypopi of Hypodectes propus (Acari: Hypoderatidae) in two southern crowned pigeons (Goura scheepmakeri)
Doves and pigeons constitute, as I'm sure all readers know, the group Columbidae within the order Columbiformes. The two species overlap to such an extent that you would be hard pushed to find an ornithologist to tell you the difference - except that doves are generally smaller.
Given the bird

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