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| Plovers, dotterels, and lapwings -- 64 to 66 species |
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| Oystercatchers -- a group of waders |
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| Avocets and the stilts -- a wader suborder |
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| The Jacanas -- lily trotters -- tropical waders |
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| Sandpipers, culew, and snipe -- waders or shorebirds |
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| Gulls or seagulls -- seabirds |
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| 1 of 4 families within the order -- hakes, eagles, kites, harriers, and old work vultures. |
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| Falcons and caracaras -- around 60 species |
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| New World vulture or condor |
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| The Herons -- long-legged freshwater and coastal birds-- some are egrets or bitterns |
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| The Ibises and the Spoonbills -- includes 34 species of wading birds |
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| The Stork -- long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills. |
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| The gannets and the boobies. |
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| The Darters or Snakebirds -- tropical waterbirds |
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| The Frigatebirds -- seabirds |
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| The Rails, crakes, coots, and galluniles. |
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| The limpkins -- wetland bird |
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| True/ typical owls -- not barn owls. |
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| The Nightjars "goatsuckers" |
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| The Chachalacas, Guans, and Curassows -- tropical/ subtropical birds from Central and South America |
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| Pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, Old World quail, and peafowl. |
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| Pigeons and doves -- includes about 310 species |
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| Parrots -- around 372 species |
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| The hummingbirds -- among the smallest of the birds |
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| The woodpeckers, piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. |
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| Crows, jays, magpies, nutcrackers, and ravens |
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| Mockingbirds, thrashers, and catbirds |
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| Carduelline finches, goldfinches, crosbills, rosy finches, pine and evening grosbeaks, house finch, redpolls, siskins, and canaries |
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| Tanagers, seedeaters, and honeycreepers |
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| Meadowlarks, orioles, grackles, blackbirds, cow birds, oropendolas, and bobolinks |
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| New World sparrows, snow buntings, juncos, towhees, and longspurs |
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