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  • BOW (Birds of the World)
    • Ratites: Ostriches to tinamous
    • Screamers, ducks, geese, swans
    • Megapodes, guans, guineafowl, New World quail
    • Pheasants, partridges, francolins
    • Nightjars, Oilbird, potoos, frogmouths
    • Owlet-nightjars, treeswifts, swifts
    • Hummingbirds
    • Turacos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrouse
    • Pigeons
    • Finfoots, flufftails, rails, trumpeters, cranes, Limpkin
    • Grebes, flamingos
    • Buttonquail, thick-knees, sheathbills, plovers, oystercatchers, stilts, painted-snipes, jacanas, Plains-wanderer, seedsnipes
    • Sandpipers, snipes, Crab-plover, coursers
    • Noddies, skimmers, gulls, terns, skuas, auks
    • Kagu, Sunbittern, tropicbirds, loons, penguins
    • Petrels, albatrosses
    • Storks, frigatebirds, boobies, darters, cormorants
    • Ibises, spoonbills, herons, Hamerkop, Shoebill, pelicans
    • Hoatzin, New World vultures, Secretarybird, raptors
    • Owls
    • Mousebirds, Cuckoo Roller, trogons, hoopoes, hornbills
    • Rollers, ground rollers, kingfishers
    • Todies, motmots, bee-eaters
    • Jacamars, puffbirds, barbets, toucans, honeyguides
    • Woodpeckers
    • Seriemas, falcons
    • Parrots, cockatoos
    • NZ wrens, Sapayoa, asities, broadbills, pittas
    • Ovenbirds, woodcreepers
    • Antbirds
    • Antthrushes, antpittas, gnateaters, tapaculos, crescentchests
    • Tyrant flycatchers
    • Cotingas, manakins, tityras, becards
    • Lyrebirds, scrubbirds, bowerbirds, Australasian treecreepers, Australasian wrens
    • Honeyeaters
    • Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers
    • Australasian babblers, logrunners, satinbirds, berrypeckers, wattlebirds, whipbirds, jewel-babblers, quail-thrushes
    • Batises, bushshrikes, boatbills, vangas (sensu lato)
    • Bristlehead, butcherbirds, woodswallows, ioras, cuckooshrikes
    • Whiteheads, sittellas, Ploughbill, Australo-Papuan bellbirds, Shriketit, whistlers
    • Vireos, shrike-babblers
    • Orioles, drongos, fantails
    • Monarchs
    • Jayshrike, shrikes, crows, mudnesters, melampittas, Ifrit, birds-of-paradise
    • Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler
    • Waxwings and allies, tits, penduline tits
    • Nicators, Bearded Reedling, larks
    • Bulbuls
    • Swallows
    • Cupwings, crombecs, cettiid bush warblers, Streaked Scrub Warbler, yellow flycatchers, hylias
    • Bushtits, leaf warblers, reed warblers
    • Grassbirds, Donacobius, tetrakas, cisticolas, allies
    • Sylviid babblers, parrotbills, white-eyes
    • Babblers, scimitar babblers, ground babblers, Alcippe fulvettas
    • Laughingthrushes and allies
    • Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, Elachura, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers
    • Nuthatches, Wallcreeper, treecreepers, spotted creepers, mockingbirds, starlings, oxpeckers
    • Thrushes
    • Chats, Old World flycatchers
    • Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers, sunbirds
    • Old World sparrows, snowfinches, weavers
    • Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits
    • Finches, euphonias, longspurs, Thrush-tanager
    • Buntings
    • New World sparrows, bush tanagers
    • Caribbean “tanagers”, Wrenthrush, Yellow-breasted Chat
    • Oropendolas, orioles, blackbirds
    • New World warblers, mitrospingid tanagers
    • Cardinals, grosbeaks and “tanager” allies
    • Tanagers and allies
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IOC World Bird List v15.1 by Frank Gill, David Donsker & Pamela Rasmussen (Eds) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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