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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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