Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:14:43 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Robert Ringler Subject: Re: A little question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marcus, I'm not sure what it was that you were looking at but the Ciconiiformes are the herons, ibis, storks, and vultures. Grebes are in Podicipediformes. Bob Ringler ----- Original Message ----- From: Marcus James To: Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] A little question > Hello > I was just at the Patuxent Wildlife Research site, > looking up the Pied-billed Grebe. When I looked up > it's Taxonomy, it said the grebe is in the order Ciconiformes. The way > it looked, there are a lot of other birds in that order also, > penguins, loons, albatrosses, etc. > Has there been a 'new' ornithological 'conclusion' > that says this, or is it just the way they had it on > that site that made it look like all those kinds birds > are in the same order? > I know, silly question, right? > Marcus James > Columbia, Howard County, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================