Order: Ciconiiformes (grebes, tropicbirds, boobies,
gannets, anhingas, cormorants, herons, bitterns, egrets, Hamerkop, flamingos,
ibises, spoonbills, pelicans, Shoebill, New World vultures, condors, storks,
frigatebirds, penguins, divers, storm-petrels, albatrosses, petrels,
shearwaters, diving-petrels)
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
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