Talk:Falconiformes

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All carnivorous?[edit]

From the entry:
Almost all Falconiforms are carnivorous, hunting by sight during the day or at twilight.

Almost all? Are there any non-carnivorous Falconiformes? There is a nocturnal one, the Letter-winged Kite Tannin 10:59, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The Palm Nut Vulture is largely non-carnivorous. jimfbleak 06:37, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Ahh. Thankyou Jim. Tannin 10:35, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

- for instance the Honey buzzard eats mainly wasp maggots, and never hunt. Vultures are of course eating meat, but cannot hunt. "Birds of prey" in the seance that birds eat other birds, eggs or other animals like fish and shellfish etc concists many more birds

- pelicans for instance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.249.33.163 (talk) 00:05, 16 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"seance" should be "sense" here. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 06:15, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Falconiformes (firm)[edit]

For the Dutch falconry suppliers called Falconiformes, see http://www.falconiformes.nl .
Please do not delete this disambig line. I have no connection with this firm, so it is not advertizing. Anthony Appleyard 09:23, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Classification[edit]

Has anybody read the recent paper in Science, "A Phylogenomic Study of Birds Reveals Their Evolutionary History"[1] by Hackett et al? According to the results of their phylogenomic study, Falcons and Hawks are not sister taxa and as such Falconiformes as describe here is a paraphyletic group. --Bytor (talk) 19:17, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Besides "morphological evidence (supports the common ancestry of the Falconiformes)" doesn't prove much. There is convergent evolution. Doesn't anyone examined the cytochrome c proteins? -- 85.146.52.115 (talk) 00:13, 30 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]