Talk:Ciconiiformes

Stork Range/distribution and habitat missing
Can someone please include the Storks' RANGE and habitat, which the article is currently lacking. It would be awesome if someone could include a range MAP in addition to a text range description also. Here's an example of a "range map" which would be great to see in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Turkeyvulturerange.jpg. I would do this myself, it's just I don't know how to make a range map or how i would even begin to go about making one (e.g: the software used to produce them, etc.) I'm -very- computer literate and technology smart, so if making one of these maps is a somewhat simple process and the software used to make them is freeware, then can someone ~please~ shoot me a message with some guidance on where to go to get the software, etc., as I have MANY articles of mine, and others, that could benefit greatly from a range/distribution map(s). Thanks a bunch! :) -Chris L. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cclambert07 (talk • contribs) 05:28, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

WTF happened there? Let me sort that out Tannin 09:30 31 May 2003 (UTC)


 * I think I've missed something Jim


 * I made a real mess of the layout by recovering clumsily from an edit conflict. Fixed now. Tannin


 * Sorry, edit conflict must be my fault. I've been roaming through the order making some very minor changes. Jim

Pronunciation please?
I have no idea how to pronounce this word in English. Could someone give a pronunciation (preferably IPA)? —Keenan Pepper 02:47, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Something like "Seeko(u)nee-formes" or "Kicko(u)nee-formes" it would be. Dysmorodrepanis 08:15, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Edited Cultural Role section
The Cultural Role section was kind of a mess of personal musing -- with especially this problematic unreferenced statement:

"In Indo-European cultures the long-legged water bird tends to be a comical or even evil figure."

That comes after mentioning artistic images from Greece -- an Indo-European culture -- and overlooking the famous European baby-delivering storks.

serious factual errors
The article states that: white stork is the symbol of The Hague in the Netherlands, where about 25 percent of European storks breed, as well as of Poland, where the majority of the remainder breed(35%) This is totally wrong The Polish stork population is some 20% of the world population (in 2005, when the latest international census was carried out) The Netherlands lost its Storks and have few reintroduced pairs, but even in the best period the whole country did not host as substantial part of European population 83.4.115.144 (talk) 17:57, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

The Family Ardeidae should actually be in the Order Pelecaniformes now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.194.56.8 (talk) 02:10, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

rerated as start
This page could be expanded quite a bit - at present only includes a (very) concise summary over member families and circumscriptions over the years. Casliber (talk · contribs) 06:01, 27 July 2010 (UTC)