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Southern African Birds

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Non-passerines

Near-Passerines

Passerines

Suborder Oscines

Musophagiformes (Turacos) Endemic to Africa

Ciconiformes

Order Pelecaniformes (Pelecans, Grebes, Cormorants,Darters, Frigatebirds,Gannett's, boobies, tropicbirds)

Order Procellariiformes (Petrels and allies, strorm-petrels and Albatrosses)

Suborder Suboscines

Strigiformes (Owls)

Order Sphenisciformes (Penguins)

Order Phoenicopteriformes (Flamingoes)

Upupiformes (Hoopoes, wood-hoopoe and Scimitarbill)

Order Gruiformes (Cranes, Bustards, Korhaans, finfoot,crakes,rail, flufftail, swamphen, gallinule)

Order Ciconiiformes (storks, hamerkops,herons, egrets, bitterns, spoonbills, ibises)

Coraciiformes (Rollers, Kingfishers and Bee-eaters)

Order Podicipediformes (Grebes)

Order Falconiformes (falcons, kestrels, secretary birds, typical raptors, osprey, vultures)

Bucerotiformes (Hornbills)

Coliiformes (Mousebirds) Endemic to Africa

Charadriiformes

Cuculiformes (Cuckoos, Malkohas and Coucals)

Suborder Lari (Gulls, skuas, skimmers and Terns)

Piciformes (Woodpeckers, Wrynecks, honeyguides  and Tinkerbirds) 

Suborder Charadrii (jacanas, thick-knees, pratincoles, coursers, painted-snipes, snipes, phalaropes, stint, stilts, avocets, crab plovers, oystercatchers, plovers, lapwings, sandgrouse, sheathbills, Whimbrel)

Psittachiformes (Parrots and Lovebirds, Parakeet)

Order Struthioiformes (Ostriches)

Apodiformes (Swifts, Spinetails)

Trogoniformes (Trogons)

Order Anseriformes (Ducks and Geese)
Order Columbiformes (Pigeons and doves)
Order Galliformes (Guineafowls, Partridges, Francolins, Spurfowls, Quails, Peacocks)
Order Turniciformes (Buttonquails)
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