Apodiform: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Apodiformes

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Illustration of a chestnut-collared swift (Cypseloides rutilus) in flight, showing its dark brown body and wings with a distinctive reddish-brown collar around its neck.

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Topics

Apodi Trochili Hummingbird Swift Crested swift sicklebill soft-tailed swift violet-ear awlbill avocetbill passeriform Charadriiform Anseriform falconiform pelecaniform piciform Coraciiform Columbiform gruiform Ciconiiform

turkey vulture. vulture. Close-up of a head and beak of a Turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).

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Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters

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Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)

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Young chimpanzee dressed in a shirt and sweater vest, scratching his head thinking. (primates)

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Lion (panthera leo)

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The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is seen in Switzerland on December 2024

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