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Ground-Rollers
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Ground-Rollers

Brachypteraciidae

The ground rollers, Brachypteraciidae, are a small family of non-migratory birds restricted to Madagascar.

They are members of the order Coraciiformes, and are most closely related to the rollers in the family Coraciidae; Brachypteraciidae and Coraciidae together make up the suborder Coracii within Coraciiformes.

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4 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 5 known species

Atelornis Ground-Rollers

genusAtelornis

Uratelornis

genusUratelornis

Brachypteracias

genusBrachypteracias

Geobiastes

genusGeobiastes

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 2304.