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Every bird species belongs to exactly one order, one level up from the more specific family groupings covered in this atlas's ",[24,25,27],"a",{"href":26},"\u002Fen\u002Fsemeystva","families section",".",[10,30,32],{"id":31},"passeriformes-the-dominant-order","Passeriformes: the dominant order",[15,34,35,38,39,43,44,43,48,43,52,43,56,60],{},[19,36,37],{},"Passeriformes",", the perching birds (also called passerines), is by far the largest bird order, containing well over half of all known bird species worldwide. Passerines share a distinctive foot arrangement — three toes pointing forward and one pointing back, meeting the leg at the same point — that gives a firm, largely automatic grip on branches, wires, and other thin perches without conscious muscular effort. 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",[19,69,70],{},"Accipitriformes and Falconiformes"," cover diurnal birds of prey — hawks, eagles, and falcons — sharing hooked beaks and strong grasping talons, represented in this atlas by families like the ",[24,73,75],{"href":74},"\u002Fen\u002Fsemeystva\u002Fyastrebinye","Accipitridae"," and ",[24,78,80],{"href":79},"\u002Fen\u002Fsemeystva\u002Fsokolinye","Falconidae",". 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Understanding this distinction helps explain why some superficially similar-looking or similarly-behaving birds turn out to be far less closely related than their day-to-day resemblance might suggest, while species that look quite different — a tiny finch and a large crow, both passerines — actually share a much closer common ancestor than their appearance alone would indicate.",{"title":140,"searchDepth":141,"depth":141,"links":142},"",2,[143,144,145,146],{"id":12,"depth":141,"text":13},{"id":31,"depth":141,"text":32},{"id":63,"depth":141,"text":64},{"id":129,"depth":141,"text":130},"\u002Fimages\u002Fentsiklopediya\u002Fotryady-ptic.png","Bird orders are the major taxonomic groupings above family — Passeriformes (perching birds) alone contains over half of all known species, with the rest split across raptors, waterfowl, waders, and more.","md",[151,154],{"q":152,"a":153},"Why does one single order, Passeriformes, contain so many more species than all the others 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