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albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains of short-tailed albatross show they lived there up to the Pleistocene, and occasional vagrants are found. Great albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, with wingspans reaching up to and bodies over in length. The albatrosses are usually regarded as falling into four genera, but
Cockatoos
A cockatoo is any of the 21 species of parrots belonging to the family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea (true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (large New Zealand parrots), they make up the order Psittaciformes. The family has a mainly Australasian distribution, ranging from the Philippines and the eastern Indonesian islands of Wallacea to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia.
Kakapo
The kākāpō (; : ; Strigops habroptilus), sometimes known as the owl-parrot, is a species of large, nocturnal, ground-dwelling parrot of the superfamily Strigopoidea. It is endemic to New Zealand.
Emperor Penguin
large flightless seabird endemic to Antarctica
Pycnonotidae
The bulbuls are members of a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds, which also includes greenbuls, brownbuls, leafloves, and bristlebills. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan. A few insular species occur on the tropical islands of the Indian Ocean. There are 166 species in 32 genera. While different species are found in a wide range of habitats, the African species are predominantly found in rainforest, whereas Asian bulbuls are predominantly found in more open areas.
Tinamidae
Tinamous () are members of the order Tinamiformes (), and family Tinamidae (), divided into two distinct subfamilies, containing 46 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The word "tinamou" comes from the Galibi term for these birds, tinamu. Tinamous are the only living group of palaeognaths able to fly, and were traditionally regarded as the sister group of the flightless ratites, but recent work places them well within the ratite radiation as most closely related to the extinct moa of New Zealand, implying flightlessness emerged among ratites multiple times. Tinamous fi
Yellow-billed Diver
species of bird
Red-and-green Macaw
species of bird
Ptilonorhynchidae
Bowerbirds () make up the bird family Ptilonorhynchidae. They are renowned for their unique courtship behaviour, where males build a structure and decorate it with sticks and brightly coloured objects in an attempt to attract a mate.
motmot
thumb|Broad-billed motmot The motmots or Momotidae are a family of birds in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers. All extant motmots are restricted to woodland or forests in the Neotropics, and the largest are in Central America. They have a colourful plumage and a relatively heavy bill. All except the tody motmot have relatively long tails that in some species have a distinctive racket-like tip.
Formicariidae
Formicariidae is a family of smallish suboscine passerine birds of subtropical and tropical Central and South America known as antthrushes. They are between in length, and are most closely related to the ovenbirds in the family Furnariidae, and the tapaculos in the family Rhinocryptidae. The family Formicariidae contains 12 species in two genera.
Fiordland Penguin
crested penguin species from southern New Zealand
Australasian Gannet
species of bird
Lesser Frigatebird
species of bird
Heliornithidae
The Heliornithidae are a small family of tropical birds with webbed lobes on their feet like those of grebes and coots. The family overall are known as finfoots, although one species is known as a sungrebe. The family is composed of three species in three genera.
Masked Finfoot
species of bird
Long-billed Plover
species of bird
Threskiornis
Threskiornis is a genus of ibises, wading birds of the family Threskiornithidae. They occur in the warmer parts of the Old World in southern Asia, Australasia and Sub-Saharan Africa. They are colonial breeders, which build a stick nest in a tree or bush and lay two to four eggs. They occur in marshy wetlands and feed on various fish, frogs, crustaceans and insects. In English, they are called sacred ibises. In Australia, urban dwelling ibises are known colloquially as "bin chickens".
Slender-billed Vulture
species of bird
Tityridae
Tityridae is family of suboscine passerine birds found in forest and woodland in the Neotropics. The 45 species in this family were formerly spread over the families Tyrannidae, Pipridae and Cotingidae (see Taxonomy). As yet, no widely accepted common name exists for the family, although tityras and allies and tityras, mourners and allies have been used. They are small to medium-sized birds. Under current classification, the family ranges in size from the buff-throated purpletuft, at and , to the masked tityra, at up to and . Most have relatively short tails and large heads.
Horned Guan
species of bird
Magellanic Plover
species of bird
Standardwing bird-of-paradise
species of bird endemic to Halmahera Island
Himalayan Snowcock
species of bird
Spilornis
Spilornis is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. As adults all have dark crowns, and bright yellow eyes and cere. These medium-sized raptors are found in forests of southern Asia and are known as serpent-eagles, an English name shared with two African species from the genera Dryotriorchis and Eutriorchis.
Invisible Rail
large flightless bird in Indonesia
blue pigeon
genus of birds
Auckland Island Teal
species of bird
New Zealand dabchick
species of bird
Rüppell's Parrot
species of bird
Andean tinamou
species of bird
Lewis's Woodpecker
species of bird
Moluccan Scrubfowl
species of bird
Nothura darwinii
species of bird
Brown Teal
species of bird
Melierax
Melierax is a genus of bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Established by George Robert Gray in 1840, it contains the following species:
Cardinal Lory
species of bird
Henicophaps
Henicophaps is a small genus of doves that are endemic to New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. These are stocky pigeons with unusually long heavy bills that live in wet forests and forage primary on the ground.
Rock Pratincole
species of bird
Fiji Petrel
species of bird
Streak-throated Woodpecker
species of bird
Black Falcon
falcon species
Thick-billed Ground Pigeon
species of bird
Ferruginous Hawk
species of bird
Accipiter albogularis
species of bird
Yellow-knobbed Curassow
species of bird
Bostrychia
Bostrychia is a genus of ibises in the family Threskiornithidae. Member species are found in many countries throughout Africa. ==Species== It contains the following five species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Common name !! Distribution |- |120px || Bostrychia carunculata || Wattled ibis||Ethiopia |- |120px || Bostrychia hagedash || Hadada ibis||Sudan, Burundi, Ethiopia, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Gambia, Kenya, Somalia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa. |- |120px || Bostrychia olivacea ||
Accipiter henicogrammus
species of bird
Campephilus
Campephilus is a genus of large American woodpeckers in the family Picidae.
Ornate Tinamou
species of bird
Livingstone's Turaco
species of bird
Collocalia
Collocalia is a genus of swifts, containing some of the smaller species termed "swiftlets". Formerly a catch-all genus for these, a number of its former members are now normally (though not by all authors) placed in Aerodramus.
White-throated Bush Chat
species of bird
Common Paradise Kingfisher
species of bird
Torresian Imperial Pigeon
species of bird
Chestnut Thrush
species of bird
Highland Tinamou
species of bird
Yucatan Amazon
species of bird
Orange-fronted Fruit Dove
species of bird
Prosopeia personata
species of bird