Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:31:03 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norm Saunders Subject: Re: A little question In-Reply-To: <20031120190847.39295.qmail@web12401.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think you may have misinterpreted something, Marcus. Ciconiiformes includes herons, bitterns, egrets, storks, and ibises. Grebes are in the order Podicipediformes--they have it all to themselves, I believe, since the loons are in Gaviiformes. =20 Check the website again and see if you can figure out what went wrong. Best, Norm > -----Original Message----- > From: Maryland Birds & Birding=20 >[mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM] On Behalf Of Marcus James > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:09 PM > To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > Subject: [MDOSPREY] A little question >=20 >=20 > 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 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =========================================================================