Falconiformes

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Falcons and caracaras
Temporal range:
Ma
Peregrine falcon
(Falco peregrinus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Clade: Eufalconimorphae
Order: Falconiformes
Sharpe, 1874
Subtaxa

†Antarctoboenus
?†Parvulivenator
?†Stintonornis
†Masillaraptoridae
Falconidae

The order Falconiformes (

Psittacopasserae), which together they form the clade Eufalconimorphae.[4][2][3] The hawks and vultures occupy a basal branch in the clade Afroaves in their own clade Accipitrimorphae, closer to owls and woodpeckers.[1][2][3][5]

See below cladogram of Telluraves relationships based on Braun & Kimball (2021):[6]

Telluraves
Accipitrimorphae

Cathartiformes (New World vultures)

Accipitriformes (hawks and relatives)

Strigiformes (owls)

Coraciimorphae

Coliiformes
(mouse birds)

Cavitaves

Leptosomiformes
(cuckoo roller)

Trogoniformes (trogons and quetzals)

Picocoraciae
Australaves

Cariamiformes (seriemas)

Eufalconimorphae

Falconiformes (falcons)

Psittacopasserae

Psittaciformes (parrots)

Passeriformes (passerines)

The fossil record of Falconiformes

phylogenetic studies.[2][3][9][10][11][12][5] A 2022 study recovers massilaraptorids as true falcons.[13]

References

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    S2CID 6472805
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    PMID 25504713
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    S2CID 205246158
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  4. PMID 21863010
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    PMID 32781465
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  6. doi:10.3390/birds2010001
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  7. ISBN 978-3-540-89627-2
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  8. PMID 21940640
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  9. ISSN 0300-3256
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  10. PMID 28369655
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  11. S2CID 198399272
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  12. ISSN 1424-2818
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  13. S2CID 250402777
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