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Order: Phoenicopteriformes
1 family, 6 species
Family #014
Flamingos (Phoenicopteridae)
- Species: 6
- Distribution: Afrotropic, Indomalaya, Neontropic, Palearctic
- IOC family #035, HBW family #015, H&M family #014
- wf250 status: 97% members ticked
- OH: 4 seen and photographed, first seen in Egypt, 1977
Chilean Flamingo | Phoenicopterus chilensis | .. |
American Flamingo | Phoenicopterus ruber | .. |
Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | .. |
Lesser Flamingo | Phoeniconaias minor | .. |
Andean Flamingo | Phoenicoparrus andinus | |
James’s Flamingo | Phoenicoparrus jamesi |
1 Lesser Flamingo, Tanzania; 2 Greater Flamingo, South Africa; 3 American Flamingo, Cuba; 4 Chilean Flamingo, Argentina
Order: Podicipediformes
1 family, 22 species
Family #015
Grebes (Podicipedidae)
- Species: 22 (3 extinct)
- Distribution: Global
- IOC family #034, HBW family #014, H&M family #015
- wf250 status: 100% members ticked
- OH: 16 seen, 14 photographed, first seen in Israel, 1977
White-tufted Grebe | Rollandia rolland | .. |
Titicaca Grebe | Rollandia microptera | |
Alaotra Grebe | Tachybaptus rufolavatus | (extinct) |
Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | .. |
Australasian Grebe | Tachybaptus novaehollandiae | .. |
Madagascar Grebe | Tachybaptus pelzelnii | .. |
Least Grebe | Tachybaptus dominicus | .. |
Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | .. |
Atitlan Grebe | Podilymbus gigas | (extinct) |
Hoary-headed Grebe | Poliocephalus poliocephalus | .. |
New Zealand Grebe | Poliocephalus rufopectus | . |
Great Grebe | Podiceps major | .. |
Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | .. |
Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | .. |
Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | .. |
Eared Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | .. |
Colombian Grebe | Podiceps andinus | (extinct) |
Silvery Grebe | Podiceps occipitalis | .. |
Junin Grebe | Podiceps taczanowskii | |
Hooded Grebe | Podiceps gallardoi | |
Western Grebe | Aechmophorus occidentalis | .. |
Clark’s Grebe | Aechmophorus clarkii | . |
1 Little Grebe, Israel; 2 Australasian Grebe, Australia; 3 Silvery Grebe, Argentina; 4 Least Grebe, Brazil; 5 Pied-billed Grebe, USA; 6 Red-necked Grebe, Israel; 7 Eared Grebe, Israel; 8 Great Crested Grebe, Spain; 9 Hoary-headed Grebe, Australia; 10 Horned Grebe, Israel; 11 Great Grebe, Argentina; 12 Madagascan Grebe, Madagascar; 13 White-tufted Grebe, Argentina; 14 Western Grebe, USA
Order: Columbiformes
1 family, 353 species
Family #016
Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)
- Species: 353 (16 extinct)
- Distribution: Global
- IOC family #027, HBW family #020, H&M family #016
- wf250 status: 100% members ticked
- OH: 129 seen, 99 photographed, first seen in Israel, 1976
Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | .. |
Hill Pigeon | Columba rupestris | |
Snow Pigeon | Columba leuconota | |
Speckled Pigeon | Columba guinea | .. |
White-collared Pigeon | Columba albitorques | .. |
Stock Dove | Columba oenas | . |
Yellow-eyed Pigeon | Columba eversmanni | . |
Somali Pigeon | Columba oliviae | |
Common Wood-Pigeon | Columba palumbus | .. |
Trocaz Pigeon | Columba trocaz | |
Bolle’s Pigeon | Columba bollii | |
Afep Pigeon | Columba unicincta | |
Laurel Pigeon | Columba junoniae | |
Rameron Pigeon | Columba arquatrix | .. |
Cameroon Pigeon | Columba sjostedti | |
Maroon Pigeon | Columba thomensis | |
Delegorgue’s Pigeon | Columba delegorguei | . |
Bronze-naped Pigeon | Columba iriditorques | |
Sao Tome Pigeon | Columba malherbii | |
Mauritius Wood-Pigeon | Columba thiriouxi | (extinct) |
Comoro Pigeon | Columba pollenii | |
Speckled Wood-Pigeon | Columba hodgsonii | .. |
White-naped Pigeon | Columba albinucha | |
Ashy Wood-Pigeon | Columba pulchricollis | . |
Nilgiri Wood-Pigeon | Columba elphinstonii | |
Sri Lanka Wood-Pigeon | Columba torringtoniae | |
Pale-capped Pigeon | Columba punicea | |
Silvery Wood-Pigeon | Columba argentina | |
Andaman Wood-Pigeon | Columba palumboides | |
Black Wood-Pigeon | Columba janthina | |
Ryukyu Pigeon | Columba jouyi | (extinct) |
Bonin Pigeon | Columba versicolor | (extinct) |
Metallic Pigeon | Columba vitiensis | .. |
White-headed Pigeon | Columba leucomela | .. |
Yellow-legged Pigeon | Columba pallidiceps | |
Lemon Dove | Aplopelia larvata | .. |
Pale-vented Pigeon | Patagioenas cayennensis | .. |
Scaled Pigeon | Patagioenas speciosa | |
Scaly-naped Pigeon | Patagioenas squamosa | .. |
Picazuro Pigeon | Patagioenas picazuro | .. |
Bare-eyed Pigeon | Patagioenas corensis | |
Spot-winged Pigeon | Patagioenas maculosa | . |
White-crowned Pigeon | Patagioenas leucocephala | .. |
Red-billed Pigeon | Patagioenas flavirostris | . |
Plain Pigeon | Patagioenas inornata | .. |
Band-tailed Pigeon | Patagioenas fasciata | .. |
Chilean Pigeon | Patagioenas araucana | |
Ring-tailed Pigeon | Patagioenas caribaea | |
Peruvian Pigeon | Patagioenas oenops | .. |
Plumbeous Pigeon | Patagioenas plumbea | .. |
Ruddy Pigeon | Patagioenas subvinacea | .. |
Short-billed Pigeon | Patagioenas nigrirostris | .. |
Dusky Pigeon | Patagioenas goodsoni | . |
Passenger Pigeon | Ectopistes migratorius | (extinct) |
Malagasy Turtle-Dove | Nesoenas picturatus | .. |
Pink Pigeon | Nesoenas mayeri | |
Mauritius Turtle-Dove | Nesoenas cicur | (extinct) |
Rodrigues Turtle-Dove | Nesoenas rodericanus | (extinct) |
European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | .. |
Dusky Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia lugens | .. |
Adamawa Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia hypopyrrha | |
Oriental Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia orientalis | .. |
Sunda Collared-Dove | Streptopelia bitorquata | |
Philippine Collared-Dove | Streptopelia dusumieri | |
Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | .. |
Burmese Collared-Dove | Streptopelia xanthocycla | |
African Collared-Dove | Streptopelia roseogrisea | .. |
White-winged Collared-Dove | Streptopelia reichenowi | |
Mourning Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decipiens | .. |
Red-eyed Dove | Streptopelia semitorquata | .. |
Ring-necked Dove | Streptopelia capicola | .. |
Vinaceous Dove | Streptopelia vinacea | .. |
Red Collared-Dove | Streptopelia tranquebarica | .. |
Spotted Dove | Spilopelia chinensis | .. |
Laughing Dove | Spilopelia senegalensis | .. |
Barred Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia unchall | . |
Brown Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia phasianella | .. |
Flores Sea Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia macassariensis | |
Timor Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia magna | |
Tanimbar Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia timorlaoensis | |
Amboyna Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia amboinensis | .. |
Sultan’s Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia doreya | .. |
Andaman Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia rufipennis | |
Philippine Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia tenuirostris | . |
Ruddy Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia emiliana | |
Enggano Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia cinnamomea | |
Barusan Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia modiglianii | |
Black-billed Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia nigrirostris | . |
Mackinlay’s Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia mackinlayi | |
Little Cuckoo-Dove | Macropygia ruficeps | . |
Great Cuckoo-Dove | Reinwardtoena reinwardti | . |
Pied Cuckoo-Dove | Reinwardtoena browni | |
Crested Cuckoo-Dove | Reinwardtoena crassirostris | |
White-faced Cuckoo-Dove | Turacoena manadensis | |
Sula Cuckoo-Dove | Turacoena sulaensis | |
Slaty Cuckoo-Dove | Turacoena modesta | |
Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur chalcospilos | .. |
Black-billed Wood-Dove | Turtur abyssinicus | .. |
Blue-spotted Wood-Dove | Turtur afer | . |
Tambourine Dove | Turtur tympanistria | .. |
Blue-headed Wood-Dove | Turtur brehmeri | . |
Namaqua Dove | Oena capensis | .. |
Asian Emerald Dove | Chalcophaps indica | .. |
Pacific Emerald Dove | Chalcophaps longirostris | .. |
Stephan’s Dove | Chalcophaps stephani | . |
New Guinea Bronzewing | Henicophaps albifrons | . |
New Britain Bronzewing | Henicophaps foersteri | |
Wetar Ground Dove | Pampusana hoedtii | |
Shy Ground Dove | Pampusana stairi | |
Santa Cruz Ground Dove | Pampusana sanctaecrucis | |
Thick-billed Ground Dove | Pampusana salamonis | (extinct) |
Tanna Ground Dove | Pampusana ferruginea | (extinct) |
Bronze Ground Dove | Pampusana beccarii | .. |
Palau Ground Dove | Pampusana canifrons | |
White-bibbed Ground Dove | Pampusana jobiensis | |
Marquesas Ground Dove | Pampusana rubescens | |
Caroline Islands Ground Dove | Pampusana kubaryi | |
Polynesian Ground Dove | Pampusana erythroptera | |
White-throated Ground Dove | Pampusana xanthonura | |
Norfolk Ground Dove | Pampusana norfolkensis | (extinct) |
Common Bronzewing | Phaps chalcoptera | .. |
Brush Bronzewing | Phaps elegans | |
Flock Bronzewing | Phaps histrionica | |
Crested Pigeon | Ocyphaps lophotes | .. |
Spinifex Pigeon | Geophaps plumifera | |
Squatter Pigeon | Geophaps scripta | . |
Partridge Pigeon | Geophaps smithii | |
Chestnut-quilled Rock-Pigeon | Petrophassa rufipennis | . |
White-quilled Rock-Pigeon | Petrophassa albipennis | |
Wonga Pigeon | Leucosarcia melanoleuca | .. |
Diamond Dove | Geopelia cuneata | .. |
Zebra Dove | Geopelia striata | .. |
Peaceful Dove | Geopelia placida | .. |
Barred Dove | Geopelia maugeus | |
Bar-shouldered Dove | Geopelia humeralis | .. |
Inca Dove | Columbina inca | .. |
Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | .. |
Plain-breasted Ground Dove | Columbina minuta | |
Ruddy Ground Dove | Columbina talpacoti | .. |
Ecuadorian Ground Dove | Columbina buckleyi | .. |
Scaled Dove | Columbina squammata | .. |
Picui Ground Dove | Columbina picui | .. |
Croaking Ground Dove | Columbina cruziana | .. |
Blue-eyed Ground Dove | Columbina cyanopis | |
Blue Ground Dove | Claravis pretiosa | . |
Maroon-chested Ground Dove | Paraclaravis mondetoura | |
Purple-winged Ground Dove | Paraclaravis geoffroyi | |
Bare-faced Ground Dove | Metriopelia ceciliae | .. |
Bare-eyed Ground Dove | Metriopelia morenoi | |
Black-winged Ground Dove | Metriopelia melanoptera | |
Golden-spotted Ground Dove | Metriopelia aymara | |
Long-tailed Ground Dove | Uropelia campestris | .. |
Blue-headed Quail-Dove | Starnoenas cyanocephala | .. |
Purple Quail-Dove | Geotrygon purpurata | |
Sapphire Quail-Dove | Geotrygon saphirina | |
Crested Quail-Dove | Geotrygon versicolor | |
Ruddy Quail-Dove | Geotrygon montana | . |
Violaceous Quail-Dove | Geotrygon violacea | |
Gray-fronted Quail-Dove | Geotrygon caniceps | .. |
White-fronted Quail-Dove | Geotrygon leucometopia | .. |
Key West Quail-Dove | Geotrygon chrysia | |
Bridled Quail-Dove | Geotrygon mystacea | |
Olive-backed Quail-Dove | Leptotrygon veraguensis | |
White-tipped Dove | Leptotila verreauxi | .. |
Caribbean Dove | Leptotila jamaicensis | |
Gray-chested Dove | Leptotila cassinii | |
Tolima Dove | Leptotila conoveri | |
Ochre-bellied Dove | Leptotila ochraceiventris | |
Gray-headed Dove | Leptotila plumbeiceps | |
Gray-fronted Dove | Leptotila rufaxilla | .. |
Grenada Dove | Leptotila wellsi | |
Pallid Dove | Leptotila pallida | . |
Large-tailed Dove | Leptotila megalura | |
Tuxtla Quail-Dove | Zentrygon carrikeri | |
Buff-fronted Quail-Dove | Zentrygon costaricensis | |
Purplish-backed Quail-Dove | Zentrygon lawrencii | |
White-faced Quail-Dove | Zentrygon albifacies | |
White-throated Quail-Dove | Zentrygon frenata | .. |
Lined Quail-Dove | Zentrygon linearis | |
Chiriqui Quail-Dove | Zentrygon chiriquensis | |
Russet-crowned Quail-Dove | Zentrygon goldmani | |
West Peruvian Dove | Zenaida meloda | . |
White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | .. |
Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | .. |
Galapagos Dove | Zenaida galapagoensis | |
Eared Dove | Zenaida auriculata | .. |
Mourning Dove | Zenaida macroura | .. |
Socorro Dove | Zenaida graysoni | |
Nicobar Pigeon | Caloenas nicobarica | |
Spotted Green Pigeon | Caloenas maculata | (extinct) |
Dodo | Raphus cucullatus | (extinct) |
Rodrigues Solitaire | Pezophaps solitaria | (extinct) |
Sulawesi Ground Dove | Gallicolumba tristigmata | |
Cinnamon Ground Dove | Gallicolumba rufigula | |
Mindoro Bleeding-heart | Gallicolumba platenae | |
Negros Bleeding-heart | Gallicolumba keayi | |
Sulu Bleeding-heart | Gallicolumba menagei | |
Luzon Bleeding-heart | Gallicolumba luzonica | |
Mindanao Bleeding-heart | Gallicolumba crinigera | |
Choiseul Pigeon | Microgoura meeki | (extinct) |
Thick-billed Ground-Pigeon | Trugon terrestris | |
Pheasant Pigeon | Otidiphaps nobilis | . |
Western Crowned-Pigeon | Goura cristata | |
Sclater’s Crowned-Pigeon | Goura sclaterii | .. |
Scheepmaker’s Crowned-Pigeon | Goura scheepmakeri | |
Victoria Crowned-Pigeon | Goura victoria | |
Tooth-billed Pigeon | Didunculus strigirostris | |
White-eared Brown-Dove | Phapitreron leucotis | |
Amethyst Brown-Dove | Phapitreron amethystinus | |
Mindanao Brown-Dove | Phapitreron brunneiceps | |
Tawitawi Brown-Dove | Phapitreron cinereiceps | |
Little Green-Pigeon | Treron olax | .. |
Pink-necked Green-Pigeon | Treron vernans | .. |
Cinnamon-headed Green-Pigeon | Treron fulvicollis | |
Orange-breasted Green-Pigeon | Treron bicinctus | |
Sri Lanka Green-Pigeon | Treron pompadora | |
Gray-fronted Green-Pigeon | Treron affinis | |
Andaman Green-Pigeon | Treron chloropterus | |
Ashy-headed Green-Pigeon | Treron phayrei | |
Philippine Green-Pigeon | Treron axillaris | |
Buru Green-Pigeon | Treron aromaticus | |
Thick-billed Green-Pigeon | Treron curvirostra | .. |
Gray-cheeked Green-Pigeon | Treron griseicauda | |
Sumba Green-Pigeon | Treron teysmannii | |
Flores Green-Pigeon | Treron floris | |
Timor Green-Pigeon | Treron psittaceus | |
Large Green-Pigeon | Treron capellei | |
Yellow-footed Green-Pigeon | Treron phoenicopterus | .. |
Bruce’s Green-Pigeon | Treron waalia | .. |
Comoro Green-Pigeon | Treron griveaudi | |
Madagascar Green-Pigeon | Treron australis | .. |
Pemba Green-Pigeon | Treron pembaensis | |
Sao Tome Green-Pigeon | Treron sanctithomae | |
Yellow-vented Green-Pigeon | Treron seimundi | |
Pin-tailed Green-Pigeon | Treron apicauda | .. |
African Green-Pigeon | Treron calvus | .. |
Sumatran Green-Pigeon | Treron oxyurus | |
Wedge-tailed Green-Pigeon | Treron sphenurus | .. |
White-bellied Green-Pigeon | Treron sieboldii | |
Whistling Green-Pigeon | Treron formosae | |
Black-backed Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus cinctus | |
Black-banded Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus alligator | |
Red-naped Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus dohertyi | |
Pink-headed Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus porphyreus | |
Yellow-breasted Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus occipitalis | |
Flame-breasted Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus marchei | |
Cream-breasted Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus merrilli | |
Red-eared Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus fischeri | .. |
Jambu Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus jambu | |
Maroon-chinned Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus epius | |
Banggai Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus subgularis | |
Sula Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus mangoliensis | |
Black-chinned Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus leclancheri | |
Scarlet-breasted Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus bernsteinii | |
Wompoo Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus magnificus | .. |
Pink-spotted Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus perlatus | .. |
Ornate Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus ornatus | .. |
Tanna Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus tannensis | |
Orange-fronted Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus aurantiifrons | .. |
Wallace’s Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus wallacii | |
Superb Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus superbus | |
Many-colored Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus perousii | |
Purple-capped Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus ponapensis | |
Kosrae Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus hernsheimi | |
Crimson-crowned Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus porphyraceus | |
Palau Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus pelewensis | |
Cook Islands Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus rarotongensis | |
Mariana Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus roseicapilla | |
Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus regina | .. |
Silver-capped Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus richardsii | |
Raiatea Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus chrysogaster | |
Gray-green Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus purpuratus | |
Makatea Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus chalcurus | |
Atoll Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus coralensis | |
Red-bellied Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus greyi | .. |
Rapa Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus huttoni | |
White-capped Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus dupetithouarsii | |
Red-moustached Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus mercierii | (extinct) |
Henderson Island Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus insularis | |
Coroneted Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus coronulatus | . |
Beautiful Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus pulchellus | . |
Blue-capped Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus monacha | |
White-breasted Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus rivoli | .. |
Geelvink Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus speciosus | |
Yellow-bibbed Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus solomonensis | |
Claret-breasted Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus viridis | |
White-headed Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus eugeniae | |
Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus iozonus | .. |
Knob-billed Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus insolitus | |
Gray-headed Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus hyogastrus | |
Carunculated Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus granulifrons | |
Black-naped Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus melanospilus | . |
Dwarf Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus nainus | .. |
Negros Fruit-Dove | Ptilinopus arcanus | |
Orange Dove | Ptilinopus victor | |
Golden Dove | Ptilinopus luteovirens | |
Velvet Dove | Ptilinopus layardi | |
Cloven-feathered Dove | Drepanoptila holosericea | .. |
Mauritius Blue-Pigeon | Alectroenas nitidissimus | (extinct) |
Rodrigues Blue-Pigeon | Alectroenas payandeei | (extinct) |
Madagascar Blue-Pigeon | Alectroenas madagascariensis | .. |
Comoro Blue-Pigeon | Alectroenas sganzini | |
Seychelles Blue-Pigeon | Alectroenas pulcherrimus | |
Pink-bellied Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula poliocephala | |
White-bellied Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula forsteni | .. |
Mindoro Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula mindorensis | |
Gray-headed Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula radiata | . |
Spotted Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula carola | |
Green Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula aenea | .. |
Enggano Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula oenothorax | |
Nicobar Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula nicobarica | |
Spectacled Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula perspicillata | |
Seram Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula neglecta | |
Elegant Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula concinna | |
Pacific Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula pacifica | |
Red-knobbed Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula rubricera | |
Micronesian Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula oceanica | |
Polynesian Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula aurorae | |
Marquesas Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula galeata | |
Spice Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula myristicivora | |
Geelvink Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula geelvinkiana | |
Purple-tailed Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula rufigaster | . |
Cinnamon-bellied Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula basilica | |
Finsch’s Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula finschii | |
Rufescent Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula chalconota | .. |
Island Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula pistrinaria | |
Pink-headed Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula rosacea | |
Christmas Island Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula whartoni | |
Gray Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula pickeringii | |
Peale’s Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula latrans | |
Chestnut-bellied Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula brenchleyi | |
Baker’s Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula bakeri | |
New Caledonian Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula goliath | .. |
Pinon’s Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula pinon | . |
Bismarck Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula melanochroa | |
Collared Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula mullerii | |
Zoe’s Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula zoeae | .. |
Malabar Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula cuprea | |
Mountain Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula badia | .. |
Dark-backed Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula lacernulata | |
Timor Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula cineracea | |
Pied Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula bicolor | |
Yellowish Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula subflavescens | |
Torresian Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula spilorrhoa | .. |
Silver-tipped Imperial-Pigeon | Ducula luctuosa | |
Topknot Pigeon | Lopholaimus antarcticus | . |
New Zealand Pigeon | Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae | .. |
Chatham Island Pigeon | Hemiphaga chathamensis | |
Sombre Pigeon | Cryptophaps poecilorrhoa | |
Papuan Mountain-Pigeon | Gymnophaps albertisii | .. |
Buru Mountain-Pigeon | Gymnophaps mada | |
Seram Mountain-Pigeon | Gymnophaps stalkeri | |
Pale Mountain-Pigeon | Gymnophaps solomonensis |
Bruce’s Green-Pigeon, Ghana 2016
New Zealand Pigeon, New Zealand 2014
1 Rock Pigeon, Israel; 2 Common Wood-Pigeon, Israel; 3 Picazuro Pigeon, Brazil; 4 Band-tailed Pigeon, Peru; 5 Peruvian Pigeon, Peru; 6 Plumbeous Pigeon, Brazil; 7 White-collared Pigeon, Ethiopia; 8 African Green-Pigeon, Uganda; 9 Dusky Turtle Dove, Ethiopia; 10 Speckled Pigeon, Uganda; 11 Red Turtle Dove, Thailand; 12 Pale-vented Pigeon, Brazil; 13 Oriental Turtle-Dove, Israel; 14 Wedge-tailed Pigeon, Thailand; 15 Spotted Dove, Thailand; 16 Malagasy Turtle Dove, Madagascar; 17 Madagascan Green Pigeon, Madagascar; 18 Madagascan Blue Pigeon, Madagascar; 19 European Turtle-Dove, Israel; 20 Long-tailed Ground-Dove, Brazil; 21 Scaled Dove, Brazil; 22 Speckled Wood Pigeon, India; 23 Mountain Imperial Pigeon, India; 24 Yellow-footed Green Pigeon, India; 25 Red-bellied Fruit-Dove, New Caledonia; 26 Laughing Dove, Israel; 27 Rameron Pigeon, South Africa; 28 Wonga Pigeon, Australia; 29 Zebra Dove, Thailand; 30 Brown Cuckoo-Dove, Australia; 31 Namaqua Dove, Israel; 32 Common Ground-Dove, USA; 33 Crested Pigeon, Australia; 34 Green Imperial Pigeon, India; 35 Common Bronzewing, Australia; 36 Gray-fronted Dove, Ecuador; 37 Peaceful Dove, Australia; 38 Mourning Collared-Dove, South Africa; 39 Ring-necked Dove, South Africa; 40 Tambourine Dove, South Africa; 41 Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove, South Africa; 42 Lemon Dove, South Africa; 43 Pin-tailed Pigeon, Thailand; 44 Bruce’s Green-pigeon, Ghana; 45 White-fronted Quail-Dove, Dominican Republic; 46 Bar-shouldered Dove, Australia; 47 White-winged Dove, Brazil; 48 Eared Dove, Brazil; 49 Red-eyed Dove, South Africa; 50 Mourning Dove, USA; 51 Inca Dove, USA; 52 Black-billed Wood Dove, Ghana; 53 Vinaceous Dove, Ghana; 54 African Collared-Dove, New Zealand; 55 Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove, Australia; 56 New Zealand Pigeon, New Zealand; 57 Short-billed Pigeon, Panama; 58 Ruddy Pigeon, Ecuador; 59 White-throated Quail-Dove, Ecuador; 60 White-headed Pigeon, Australia; 61 Pacific Emerald Dove, New Caledonia; 62 Ruddy Ground-Dove, Brazil; 63 Ecuadorian Ground-Dove, Peru; 64 Croaking Ground-Dove, Peru; 65 Bare-faced Ground-Dove, Peru; 66 White-tipped Dove, Brazil; 67 Eurasian Collared-Dove, Israel; 68 Plain Pigeon, Dominican Republic; 69 Metallic Pigeon, New Caledonia; 70 Cloven-feathered Dove, New Caledonia; 71 Goliath Imperial Pigeon, New Caledonia; 72 Picui Ground Dove, Argentina; 73 Diamond Dove, Australia
74 Wompoo Fruit-Dove, Papua New Guina; 75 Pink-spotted Fruit-Dove, PNG; 76 Orange-bellied Fruit-Dove, PNG; 77 White-breasted Fruit-Dove, PNG; 78 Torresian Imperial-Pigeon, PNG; 79 Zoe’s Imperial-Pigeon, PNG; 80 Sclater’s Crowned-Pigeon, PNG; 81 Ornate Fruit-Dove, PNG; 82 Rufescent Imperial-Pigeon, PNG; 83 Scaly-naped Pigeon, Puero Rico; 84 Papuan Mountain-Pigeon, PNG; 85 Orange-fronted Fruit-Dove, PNG; 86 Amboyna Cuckoo-Dove, PNG; 87 White-crowned Pigeon, Puero Rico; 88 Dwarf Fruit-Dove, PNG; 89 Bronze Ground Dove, PNG
Order: Mesitornithiformes
1 family, 3 species
Family #017
Mesites (Mesitornithidae)
- Species: 3
- Distribution: Afrotropical endemic (Madagascar)
- IOC family #025, HBW family #019, H&M family #018
- wf250 status: 37% members ticked
- OH: 2 seen and photographed, first seen in Madagascar, 2016
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White-breasted Mesite | Mesitornis variegatus | .. |
Brown Mesite | Mesitornis unicolor | |
Subdesert Mesite | Monias benschi | .. |
1 Subdesert Mesite, Madagascar; 2 White-breasted Mesite, Madagascar
Order: Pterocliformes
1 family, 16 species
Family #018
Sandgrouses (Pteroclidae)
- Species: 16
- Distribution: Afrotropic, Indomalaya, Palearctic
- IOC family #026, HBW family #021, H&M family #017
- wf250 status: 90% members ticked
- OH: 10 seen, 8 photographed, first seen in Israel, 1978
Tibetan Sandgrouse | Syrrhaptes tibetanus | |
Pallas’s Sandgrouse | Syrrhaptes paradoxus | |
Pin-tailed Sandgrouse | Pterocles alchata | .. |
Namaqua Sandgrouse | Pterocles namaqua | |
Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse | Pterocles exustus | .. |
Spotted Sandgrouse | Pterocles senegallus | .. |
Black-bellied Sandgrouse | Pterocles orientalis | .. |
Yellow-throated Sandgrouse | Pterocles gutturalis | . |
Crowned Sandgrouse | Pterocles coronatus | .. |
Black-faced Sandgrouse | Pterocles decoratus | .. |
Madagascar Sandgrouse | Pterocles personatus | . |
Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse | Pterocles lichtensteinii | .. |
Double-banded Sandgrouse | Pterocles bicinctus | .. |
Four-banded Sandgrouse | Pterocles quadricinctus | |
Painted Sandgrouse | Pterocles indicus | |
Burchell’s Sandgrouse | Pterocles burchelli |
1 Pin-tailed Sandgrouse, Israel; 2 Crowned Sandgrouse, Israel; 3 Spotted Sandgrouse, Israel; 4 Black-bellied Sandgrouse, Israel; 5 Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse, Israel; 6 Double-banded Sandgrouse, South Africa
7 Black-faced Sandgrouse, Tanzania; 8 Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Tanzania
Oredr: Otidiformes
1 family, 26 species
Family #019
Bustards (Otididae)
- Species: 26
- Distribution: Afrotropic, Australasia, Indomalaya, Palearctic
- IOC family #023, HBW family #038, H&M family #037
- wf250 status: 92% members ticked
- OH: 10 seen, 8 photographed, first seen in Israel, 1978
Great Bustard | Otis tarda | .. |
Arabian Bustard | Ardeotis arabs | |
Kori Bustard | Ardeotis kori | .. |
Great Indian Bustard | Ardeotis nigriceps | |
Australian Bustard | Ardeotis australis | .. |
Houbara Bustard | Chlamydotis undulata | |
Macqueen’s Bustard | Chlamydotis macqueenii | .. |
Ludwig’s Bustard | Neotis ludwigii | |
Denham’s Bustard | Neotis denhami | |
Heuglin’s Bustard | Neotis heuglinii | |
Nubian Bustard | Neotis nuba | |
White-bellied Bustard | Eupodotis senegalensis | . |
Blue Bustard | Eupodotis caerulescens | |
Karoo Bustard | Heterotetrax vigorsii | |
Rüppell’s Bustard | Heterotetrax rueppelii | |
Little Brown Bustard | Heterotetrax humilis | |
Savile’s Bustard | Lophotis savilei | |
Buff-crested Bustard | Lophotis gindiana | .. |
Red-crested Bustard | Lophotis ruficrista | |
Black Bustard | Afrotis afra | . |
White-quilled Bustard | Afrotis afraoides | .. |
Black-bellied Bustard | Lissotis melanogaster | .. |
Hartlaub’s Bustard | Lissotis hartlaubii | |
Bengal Florican | Houbaropsis bengalensis | |
Lesser Florican | Sypheotides indicus | |
Little Bustard | Tetrax tetrax | .. |
Buff-crested Bustard, Tanzania
1 Great Bustard, Israel; 2 Little Bustard, Israel; 3 Kori Bustard, Tanzania; 4 Australian Bustard, Australia; 5 Black-bellied Bustard, Tanzania; 6 Northern Black Korhaan, South Africa; 7 Macqueen’s Bustard, Israel
Order: Musophagiformes
1 family, 23 species
Family #020
Turacos (Musophagidae)
- Species: 23
- Distribution: Afrotropical endemic
- IOC family #022, HBW family #039, H&M family #038
- wf250 status: 80% members ticked
- OH: 13 seen, 10 photographed, first seen in Kenya, 1983
Great Blue Turaco | Corythaeola cristata | .. |
Guinea Turaco | Tauraco persa | .. |
Livingstone’s Turaco | Tauraco livingstonii | |
Schalow’s Turaco | Tauraco schalowi | |
Knysna Turaco | Tauraco corythaix | |
Black-billed Turaco | Tauraco schuettii | . |
White-crested Turaco | Tauraco leucolophus | |
Fischer’s Turaco | Tauraco fischeri | .. |
Yellow-billed Turaco | Tauraco macrorhynchus | . |
Bannerman’s Turaco | Tauraco bannermani | |
Red-crested Turaco | Tauraco erythrolophus | |
Hartlaub’s Turaco | Tauraco hartlaubi | . |
White-cheeked Turaco | Menelikornis leucotis | |
Prince Ruspoli’s Turaco | Menelikornis ruspolii | |
Purple-crested Turaco | Gallirex porphyreolophus | .. |
Rwenzori Turaco | Gallirex johnstoni | |
Violet Turaco | Musophaga violacea | .. |
Ross’s Turaco | Musophaga rossae | |
Bare-faced Go-away-bird | Crinifer personatus | .. |
Gray Go-away-bird | Crinifer concolor | .. |
White-bellied Go-away-bird | Crinifer leucogaster | .. |
Western Plantain-eater | Crinifer piscator | .. |
Eastern Plantain-eater | Crinifer zonurus | .. |
1 Purple-crested Turaco, South Africa; 2 Guinea Turaco, Ghana; 3 Gray Go-away-bird, South Africa; 4 Bare-faced Go-away Bird, Uganda; 5 Violet Turaco, Ghana; 6 Great Blue Turaco, Uganda; 7 Western Plantain-eater, Ghana; 8 Eastern Plantain-eater, Uganda
9 White-bellied Go-away-bird, Tanzania; 10 Fischer’s Turaco, Tanzania
Order: Cuculiformes
1 family, 147 species
Family #021
Cuckoos (Cuculidae)
- Species: 147 (2 extinct)
- Distribution: Global
- IOC family #024, HBW family #031, H&M family #030
- wf250 status: 100% members ticked
- OH: 78 seen, 51 photographed, first seen in Israel, 1978
Guira Cuckoo | Guira guira | .. |
Greater Ani | Crotophaga major | .. |
Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani | .. |
Groove-billed Ani | Crotophaga sulcirostris | .. |
Striped Cuckoo | Tapera naevia | .. |
Pheasant Cuckoo | Dromococcyx phasianellus | |
Pavonine Cuckoo | Dromococcyx pavoninus | |
Lesser Ground-Cuckoo | Morococcyx erythropygus | |
Lesser Roadrunner | Geococcyx velox | |
Greater Roadrunner | Geococcyx californianus | .. |
Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo | Neomorphus geoffroyi | |
Scaled Ground-Cuckoo | Neomorphus squamiger | |
Banded Ground-Cuckoo | Neomorphus radiolosus | |
Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo | Neomorphus rufipennis | |
Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo | Neomorphus pucheranii | |
Sumatran Ground-Cuckoo | Carpococcyx viridis | |
Bornean Ground-Cuckoo | Carpococcyx radiceus | . |
Coral-billed Ground-Cuckoo | Carpococcyx renauldi | |
Crested Coua | Coua cristata | .. |
Verreaux’s Coua | Coua verreauxi | .. |
Blue Coua | Coua caerulea | .. |
Red-capped Coua | Coua ruficeps | .. |
Red-fronted Coua | Coua reynaudii | .. |
Coquerel’s Coua | Coua coquereli | .. |
Running Coua | Coua cursor | .. |
Giant Coua | Coua gigas | .. |
Snail-eating Coua | Coua delalandei | (extinct) |
Red-breasted Coua | Coua serriana | .. |
Buff-headed Coucal | Centropus milo | |
Pied Coucal | Centropus ateralbus | |
Biak Coucal | Centropus chalybeus | |
Greater Black Coucal | Centropus menbeki | . |
Rufous Coucal | Centropus unirufus | |
Green-billed Coucal | Centropus chlororhynchos | |
Black-faced Coucal | Centropus melanops | |
Short-toed Coucal | Centropus rectunguis | |
Black-hooded Coucal | Centropus steerii | |
Bay Coucal | Centropus celebensis | |
Gabon Coucal | Centropus anselli | |
Black-throated Coucal | Centropus leucogaster | |
Senegal Coucal | Centropus senegalensis | .. |
Blue-headed Coucal | Centropus monachus | |
Coppery-tailed Coucal | Centropus cupreicaudus | |
White-browed Coucal | Centropus superciliosus | .. |
Sunda Coucal | Centropus nigrorufus | |
Andaman Coucal | Centropus andamanensis | |
Greater Coucal | Centropus sinensis | . |
Goliath Coucal | Centropus goliath | |
Malagasy Coucal | Centropus toulou | .. |
Black Coucal | Centropus grillii | . |
Philippine Coucal | Centropus viridis | |
Lesser Coucal | Centropus bengalensis | . |
Violaceous Coucal | Centropus violaceus | |
Lesser Black Coucal | Centropus bernsteini | .. |
Pheasant Coucal | Centropus phasianinus | .. |
Raffles’s Malkoha | Rhinortha chlorophaea | .. |
Blue Malkoha | Ceuthmochares aereus | .. |
Green Malkoha | Ceuthmochares australis | |
Sirkeer Malkoha | Taccocua leschenaultii | |
Red-billed Malkoha | Zanclostomus javanicus | . |
Chestnut-breasted Malkoha | Phaenicophaeus curvirostris | .. |
Chestnut-bellied Malkoha | Phaenicophaeus sumatranus | |
Red-faced Malkoha | Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus | |
Blue-faced Malkoha | Phaenicophaeus viridirostris | |
Black-bellied Malkoha | Phaenicophaeus diardi | . |
Green-billed Malkoha | Phaenicophaeus tristis | .. |
Yellow-billed Malkoha | Rhamphococcyx calyorhynchus | .. |
Red-crested Malkoha | Dasylophus superciliosus | |
Scale-feathered Malkoha | Dasylophus cumingi | |
Chestnut-winged Cuckoo | Clamator coromandus | |
Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | .. |
Levaillant’s Cuckoo | Clamator levaillantii | .. |
Pied Cuckoo | Clamator jacobinus | . |
Little Cuckoo | Coccycua minuta | .. |
Dwarf Cuckoo | Coccycua pumila | |
Ash-colored Cuckoo | Coccycua cinerea | |
Squirrel Cuckoo | Piaya cayana | .. |
Black-bellied Cuckoo | Piaya melanogaster | |
Dark-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus melacoryphus | |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | . |
Pearly-breasted Cuckoo | Coccyzus euleri | |
Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | . |
Cocos Cuckoo | Coccyzus ferrugineus | |
Black-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus | . |
Gray-capped Cuckoo | Coccyzus lansbergi | |
Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo | Coccyzus pluvialis | |
Bay-breasted Cuckoo | Coccyzus rufigularis | |
Jamaican Lizard-Cuckoo | Coccyzus vetula | |
Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo | Coccyzus vieilloti | . |
Great Lizard-Cuckoo | Coccyzus merlini | .. |
Hispaniolan Lizard-Cuckoo | Coccyzus longirostris | .. |
St. Helena Cuckoo | Nannococcyx psix | (extinct) |
Thick-billed Cuckoo | Pachycoccyx audeberti | . |
Dwarf Koel | Microdynamis parva | .. |
Asian Koel | Eudynamys scolopaceus | .. |
Black-billed Koel | Eudynamys melanorhynchus | . |
Pacific Koel | Eudynamys orientalis | .. |
Long-tailed Koel | Urodynamis taitensis | |
Channel-billed Cuckoo | Scythrops novaehollandiae | . |
Asian Emerald Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx maculatus | .. |
Violet Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx xanthorhynchus | .. |
Dideric Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx caprius | .. |
Klaas’s Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx klaas | .. |
Yellow-throated Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx flavigularis | |
African Emerald Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx cupreus | . |
Long-billed Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx megarhynchus | |
Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx basalis | .. |
Black-eared Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx osculans | .. |
Rufous-throated Bronze-Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx ruficollis | .. |
Shining Bronze-Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx lucidus | .. |
White-eared Bronze-Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx meyerii | .. |
Little Bronze-Cuckoo | Chrysococcyx minutillus | |
Pallid Cuckoo | Cacomantis pallidus | .. |
White-crowned Cuckoo | Cacomantis leucolophus | . |
Chestnut-breasted Cuckoo | Cacomantis castaneiventris | . |
Fan-tailed Cuckoo | Cacomantis flabelliformis | .. |
Banded Bay Cuckoo | Cacomantis sonneratii | |
Plaintive Cuckoo | Cacomantis merulinus | .. |
Gray-bellied Cuckoo | Cacomantis passerinus | |
Moluccan Cuckoo | Cacomantis aeruginosus | |
Brush Cuckoo | Cacomantis variolosus | . |
Dusky Long-tailed Cuckoo | Cercococcyx mechowi | . |
Olive Long-tailed Cuckoo | Cercococcyx olivinus | |
Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo | Cercococcyx montanus | |
Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo | Surniculus dicruroides | |
Philippine Drongo-Cuckoo | Surniculus velutinus | |
Square-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo | Surniculus lugubris | . |
Moluccan Drongo-Cuckoo | Surniculus musschenbroeki | |
Moustached Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx vagans | . |
Large Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx sparverioides | .. |
Dark Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx bocki | |
Common Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx varius | |
Northern Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx hyperythrus | . |
Philippine Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx pectoralis | |
Hodgson’s Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx nisicolor | |
Malaysian Hawk-Cuckoo | Hierococcyx fugax | |
Black Cuckoo | Cuculus clamosus | . |
Red-chested Cuckoo | Cuculus solitarius | .. |
Lesser Cuckoo | Cuculus poliocephalus | .. |
Sulawesi Cuckoo | Cuculus crassirostris | |
Indian Cuckoo | Cuculus micropterus | |
African Cuckoo | Cuculus gularis | . |
Madagascar Cuckoo | Cuculus rochii | . |
Himalayan Cuckoo | Cuculus saturatus | . |
Sunda Cuckoo | Cuculus lepidus | |
Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | .. |
Oriental Cuckoo | Cuculus optatus | . |
Hispaniolan Lizard-Cuckoo, Dominican Republic, 2017
Greater Roadrunner, USA 2013
Giant Coua, Madagascar 2016
1 Great Spotted Cuckoo, Israel; 2 Common Cuckoo, Israel; 3 Fan-tailed Cuckoo, Australia; 4 White-browed Coucal, Uganda; 5 Burchell’s Coucal, South Africa; 6 Senegal Coucal, Ghana; 7 Greater Roadrunner, USA; 8 Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo, Dominican Republic; 9 Pheasant Coucal, Papua New Guinea; 10 Didric Cuckoo, Uganda; 11 Yellowbill, Uganda; 12 Green-billed Malkoha, Thailand; 13 Guira Cuckoo, Brazil; 14 Striped Cuckoo, Brazil; 15 Squirrel Cuckoo, Brazil; 16 Asian Emerald Cuckoo, Thailand; 17 Plaintive Cuckoo, Thailand; 18 Malagacy Coucal, Madagascar; 19 Pacific Koel, Australia; 20 Pallid Cuckoo, Australia; 21 Klaas’s Cuckoo, Ghana; 22 Shining Bronze Cuckoo, New Caledonia; 23 Smooth-billed Ani, Brazil; 24 Groove-billed Ani, Peru; 25 Greater Ani, Brazil; 26 Asian Koel, Thailand; 27 Red-chested Cuckoo, South Africa; 28 Levaillant’s Cuckoo, Ghana; 29 Large Hawk-Cuckoo, India; 30 Giant Coua, Madagascar; 31 Running Coua, Madagascar; 32 Blue Coua, Madagascar; 33 Verreaux’s Coua, Madagascar; 34 Crested Coua, Madagascar; 35 Lesser Cuckoo, South Africa; 36 Little Cuckoo, Ecuador; 37 Coquerel’s Coua, Madagascar; 38 Red-breasted Coua, Madagascar; 39 Red-capped Coua, Madagascar; 40 Red-fronted Coua, Madagascar
41 Great Lizard-Cuckoo, Cuba; 42 Black-eared Cuckoo, Australia; 43 Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo, Australia; 44 Dwarf Koel, Papua New Guinea; 45 Rufous-throated Bronze-Cuckool, Papua New Guinea; 46 Lesser Black Coucall, Papua New Guinea; 47 White-eared Bronze-Cuckool, Papua New Guinea