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    • Ratites >
      • Rhea
      • Ostrich
      • Emu
      • Southern Cassowary
    • Anserifomes >
      • Crested Screamer
    • Anatidae-Ducks, Geese, Swans s and Screamers >
      • Rosy bill Pochard
      • Orinoco Goose
      • Crested Screamer
      • White winged Duck
      • Mandarin Duck
      • Ruddy Duck
    • Spheniscidae- penguins >
      • African Penguin
      • Little Penguin
      • Magellanic penguins
    • Gruiformes >
      • Sunbittern
      • Bustards >
        • Kori Bustard
        • White-bellied Bustard
      • Gruidae- Cranes >
        • Wattled Crane
        • Saurus Crane
        • Black Crowned Crane
        • Whooping Crane
        • Grey Crowned Crane
        • Red Crowned Crane
        • Sandhill Crane
        • white-naped Crane
        • Blue Crane
        • Demoiselle Crane
    • Pelicaniformes-Pelicans, Gannets, Cormarants, Shags and Frigatebirds >
      • Pelecanidae >
        • Brown Pelican
        • Great White Pelican
        • American White Pelican
    • CICONIIFORMES: Storks, Herons, Ibises and Shoebills >
      • Red-legged Seriema
      • Ardeidae >
        • Pinked Backed Pelican
        • Boat-billed Heron
        • Goliath Heron
      • shoebill
      • Hamerkop
      • Threskiornithidae >
        • African Spoonbill
        • Roseate Spoonbill
        • Scarlet Ibis
      • CICONIIDAE >
        • Abdim's Stork
        • Jabiru
        • Marabou
        • Saddle-bill Stork
        • Storm's Stork
        • Wood Stork
        • Yellow-billed Stork
    • Rampshastidae-toucans, aracaris, toucanets >
      • Keel-billed Toucan
      • Swainson's Toucan
      • Toco Toucan
    • RAPTOR >
      • ACCIPITRIDAE >
        • Stellar's Sea eagle
        • Bald Eagle
        • Palmnut vulture
        • Lappet-faced Vulture
        • Harpy Eagle
        • African Crowned Eagle
        • Red-shouldered Hawk
        • Short-tailed Hawk
        • Red-tailed Hawk
      • CATHARTIDAE-new world vultures >
        • Andean condor
        • Black vulture
        • King vulture
        • Turkey Vulture
    • Coraciiformes >
      • Halcyonidae >
        • Laughing Kookabura
        • white-collared Kingfisher
      • Coracidae >
        • Blue-bellied Roller
        • Racket-tailed Roller
      • Bucerotidae >
        • Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
        • Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill
        • Rhinoceros Hornbill
        • Wreathed Hornbill
        • Wrinkled Honbill
    • Psittaciformes >
      • Cacatuida >
        • Palm Cockatoo
        • Moluccan Cockatoo
        • Umbrella Cockatoo
      • Psittacidae >
        • Rainbow lorikeet
        • Blue-streaked Lory
        • Yellow-streaked Lory
        • Pasquets Parrot
        • Hyacinth Macaw
        • Green-winged Macaw
        • Scarlet Macaw
    • Passeriformes >
      • White headed Buffalo Weaver
      • White-crowned Robin Chat
      • Bali Mynah
      • Golden-breasted Starling
      • lesser Bird of Paradise
  • MAMMALS
    • Carnivora-Bears, cats, dogs, raccoons. otters >
      • Felidae-CATS >
        • Bobcat
        • Ocelot
        • Jaguar
        • Leopard
        • Lion
        • Snow Leopard
        • Tiger
        • Mountain Lion
        • cheetah
      • Mustelidae >
        • Oriental Small-clawed Otter
        • giant river otter
        • North American River Otter
    • PRIMATE >
      • Hylobatidae >
        • Northern White-cheeked Gibbon
        • Siamang
      • HOMINIDAE- Apes >
        • Bonobo
        • Western Gorilla
        • Orangutan
        • Chimpanzee
      • Callitricidae >
        • Cotton-top Tamari
        • Red-handed Tamarin
        • Golden Lion Tamarin
        • Golden-headed Lion Tamarin
        • Black Lion Tamarin
        • Emperor Tamarin
        • Pied Tamarin
        • Pygmy Marmoset
      • Atelidae- Spider, Wooly and Howler Monkeys >
        • Red howler monkey
        • southern Black Howler Monkey
        • Central American Spider Monkey
    • Pilosa-anteaters, sloths, >
      • Giant Anteater
      • Brown Throated Three toed sloth
      • Hoffman's Two-toed Sloth
    • Marine Mammals >
      • Manatee
      • Cetacea >
        • Beluga
    • ARTIODACTYLA- >
      • Bovidae >
        • Dama Gazelle
        • Gemsbok
        • Scimitar-horned Oryx
        • Lesser Kudu
        • Greater Kudu
        • Klipspringer
        • Bongo
        • Bontebok
        • Waterbuck
        • addax
        • Nubian Ibex
      • Suidae >
        • Red River Hog
        • Warthog
      • Giraffidae >
        • Giraffe
        • Okapi
    • Elephantidae >
      • African Elephant
      • Asian Elephant
  • REPTILES
    • Crocodylia-Alligators, Crocodiles and Gharials >
      • American Alligator
      • Chinese Alligator
      • Gharial
      • Morelet's Crocodile
      • Orinoco Crocodile
      • Saltwater Crocodile
      • Cuban Crocodile
      • Nile Crocodile
      • Mugger Crocodile
    • SQUAMATA >
      • Serpentes >
        • Green Anaconda
        • Copperhead
      • VARANOIDEA- Varanids and Helodermids >
        • Komodo Dragon
        • Green Tree Monitor
        • Water Monitor
        • Gila Monster
        • Beaded Lizard
  • AMPHIBIANS
    • Anurans-Frogs and Toads
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The taxonomy of the New World Vultures, Catharidae, has been in dispute for a very long time. One thing that is not in dispute is that they are only distantly related to the Old World Vultures. The superficial resemblence is a result of convergent evolution. Both families filling the ecological role of avian scavenger. In some taxonomic systems the New World Vultures are placed in the order Cicconiformes which are the storks. However the DNA testing which factored in this placement are in dispute. There are seven species in this family
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Andean Condor
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King Vulture
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Black Vulture
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Turkey Vulture
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