Order PELECANIFORMES Totipalmate Swimmers 

 Water birds; lc,c;s short; weh including hind toe 

 Family PHAETHONTIDAE Tropic-birds 



Lores feathered; chin feathered; beak straight and pointed 



(1 genus, 1 species) 

 Family PELECANIDAE Pelicans 



Lores bare; beak hooked and with a large pouch beneath 



(1 genus, 2 species) 

 Family SULIDAE Ganncts and Boobies 



Lores bare; chin bare; beak not hooked; tail pointed 



(2 genera, 2 species) 

 Family PHALACROCORACIDAE Cormorants 



Lores bare; end of beak hooked; no pouch beneath beak 



( 1 genus, 5 species) 

 Family ANHINGIDAE Darters, Snake-birds 



Lores bare; chin bare; beak not hooked; end of tail square 



( 1 genus, 1 species ) 

 Family FREGATIDAE Man-o'-war-birds 



Lores feathered; end of beak hooked 



( 1 genus, 1 species ) 

 Order CICONIIFORMES Herons, Storks, Flamingos, etc. 



Water birds; legs very long; tibia bare below; lores bare; 



usually large, long-necked birds 

 Suborder ARDEAE Herons, Bitterns, etc. 



Toes four, all on the same level, scarcely or not webbed 

 Family ARDEIDAE Herons, Bitterns and Egrets 



Beak straight and pointed; middle claw serrated 



(11 genera, 12 species) 

 Family CICONIIDAE Storks and Wood Ibises 



Beak narrow, cylindrical, somewhat curved downwards; 



sides of upper bill not grooved; middle claw smooth 



( 1 genus, 1 species) 

 Family THRESKIORNITHIDAE Spoonbills and Ibises 



Either with the end of the beak broad and flat (Spoonbills) 



or with the beak narrow, cylindrical, somewhat curved 



downwards and with the sides of upper bill grooved 



(Ibises) ; middle claw smooth 



(3 genera, 4 species) 

 Suborder PHOENICOPTERI Flamingos 

 Feet webbed in front 

 Family PHOENICOPTERIDAE Flamingos 



Edges of beak with serrated strainers; end of beak bent 



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