Coraciiform: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Coraciiformes • rollerlike bird

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yellow-billed hornbill

A malachite kingfisher with bright blue and orange plumage perches on a branch in Mkuzi Game Reserve, South Africa.

body plans of larger coraciiforms

body plans of smaller coraciiforms

red-billed hornbill

coraciiform foot morphology

yellow-billed hornbill

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Leptosomatidae Kingfisher Hornbill Wood hoopoe Roller Motmot Bee-eater Ground roller ground hornbill Tody passeriform Charadriiform Anseriform falconiform pelecaniform piciform Columbiform gruiform Ciconiiform procellariiform

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