Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 12:27:40 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marcus James Subject: Bird Orders MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I was at the Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter, and when I looked up the taxonomy of the Anhinga, I read that it belonged to the order Ciconiiformes, and there was a list of different of birds which are also in that order, including albatrosses, auks, cormorants, diurnal birds of prey, grebes, herons, loons, penguins and shorebirds. I thought all those birds belonged to different orders, but I might be thinking of old ornithology. Do they all belong to the same order now? When did ornithologists come up with that conclusion? If it is wrong sending this question to MDOsprey.org, I apologize. Marcus James Columbia, MD marcusjames2@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================