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the web of life in southern Africa

Order: Falconiformes (vultures, kites, hawks, eagles, buzzards, harriers, Osprey, falcons, kestrels and Secretarybird)

Life > Eukaryotes > Opisthokonta > Metazoa (animals) > Bilateria > Deuterostomia > Chordata > Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates)  > Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class: Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial vertebrates) > Tetrapoda (four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota > Reptilia (reptiles) > Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria > Dinosauria (dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) > Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves (birds) 

Families indigenous to southern Africa

Falconidae (falcons and kestrels)

Sagittariidae (Secretarybird)

One species: the Secretary Bird Sagittarius serpentarius

Pandionidae (Osprey)

The Osprey Pandion haliaetus is the sole species in this family. The Pandonidae is the sister-group of the Accipitridae.

Accipitridae (vultures, kites, hawks, eagles, buzzards and harriers)