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      • 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
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      • Sunbittern
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        • Kori Bustard
        • White-bellied Bustard
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        • 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 >
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        • 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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SQUAMATA- Snakes, Lizards 

Easily the largest order of reptiles squamata encompasses all species of snakes and lizards  This order is widespread occupying all continents except Antarctica . However the order reaches its highest diversity in tropical areas. With over 9000 species it is the second largest order of vertebrates with only the Perchiformes having more species. The members of Squamata have two defining characteristics: scaled skin and movable quadrate bone. This allows the upper jaw to move relative to the rest of the skull. This order contains all of the venomous reptiles. The order is divided into three suborders: the snakes- Serpentes, the lizards- Lacertilia and the worm lizards-Amphisbaenia
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