Common Name Grouping
The following table in work in progress.
COMMON NAMES | SPECIES | GROUP |
EARLY BIRDS - Ostriches, Rheas, Cassowaries, Emu, Kiwis. | 0.93 | - |
GAME BIRDS - Scrub-fowl, Guineafowl, Chachalacas, Guans, Currasows. Takahe, Hative-hens, Pheasants, Francolin & Spurfowl, Tinamous, New World Quail. | 2.60 | - |
GROUND FORAGERS - A.Bustards, Thick-knees, Coursers, Sandgrouse. B. Wheatears, Ring Ouzel, Rock Fowl, Rock Thrushes, Rock Jumpers, Road Runners, Accentors. C. Larks, Wagtails, Pipits, Longclaws. | 2.80 | 6.33 |
WATERFOWL - Screamers, Magpie Goose, Swans, Geese, Whistling Ducks, Shelducks, Ducks | 1.60 | - |
SEA & OCEAN BIRDS – Gulls, Terns, Skimmers, Petrels, Shearwaters, Auks, Storm Petrels, Albatrosses, Penguins, Pelicans, Tropicbirds | 2.78 | - |
INLAND WATER & RIVER BIRDS - includes Loons, Grebes, Sungrebe, Coots, Cormorants, Shags, Anhingas, Kingfishers, Dippers, Phalaropes | 1.12 | - |
LONG-LEGGED WADERS - Flamingos, Spoonbills, Jacanas, Avocets, Stilts. Dowitchers, Godwits, Curlews, Whimbrel, Shanks, Yellowlegs. | 0.52 | - |
SHORE BIRDS - Sandpipers, etc | 1.19 | - |
MARSHLAND, REED-BED AND SWAMP BIRDS - Swamphens, Gallinules, Moorhens. Herons, Egrets, Bitterns. Rails, Snipe. Sunbittern. Hamerkop, Shoebill. Small Marshland Birds. | 2.60 | - |
WETLAND FORAGERS - Stork, Ibis. Cranes & Limpkin. | 0.62 | 10.43 |
FRUIT EATERS - Parrots and Cockatoos. Pigeons and Doves. Turacos, Bulbuls, Barbets, Hornbills, Mousebirds. Figbirds, Whistlers erc. Cotingas, Manakins, Toucans etc. | 13.63 | 13.63 |
BOP's & OTHER FLESH EATERS - Vultures, Falcons. Kites, Hawks, Eagles. Owls. Skuas, Jaegers, Frigatebirds. Shrikes etc. | 7.40 | 7.40 |
AERIAL INSECTIVORES- Swifts, Tree-Swifts, Swallows, Martins, Wood Swallows, Pratincoles, Nightjars, Potoos, Owlet-Nightjars | 3.13 | |
FLY OUT AND CATCH INSECTS - Jacamars, Bee-eaters, NW Flycatchers, OW Flycatchers. Fantails, Monarchs. | 7.35 | |
FLY DOWN AND SNATCH INSECTS - Alethes, Akalats, Forest Robins, Robin-Chats, Bush & Scrub Robins, White-winged Chats, Robin. | 1.85 | |
Bluethroat, Stonchats, Whinchat, Redstarts, Whitestarts, Blackstart | 0.36 | |
INSECT GLEANERS - Wrens, Gatcatchers, Fairy Wrens, New Zealand Wrens | 1.26 | 13.95 |
FINCH-LIKE BIRDS – Buntings, Waxbills, Sparrows, Grosbeaks etc | 8.30 | 8.30 |
FOREST AND WOODLAND FORAGERS - Thrushes. Mockingbirds,Thrashers, Catbirds. Starlings. Grackles and Meadowlarks. | 3.2 | 3.20 |
OTHER SEED EATERS - | 14.2 | 14.20 |
Thicket and ground litter foragers – Babblers, Antbirds & Pittas. | 10.8 | 10.80 |
Nuthatches, Creepers, . | 12.12 | 12.12 |
TOTAL | 100.36 |
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page revision: 120, last edited: 26 Aug 2013 13:42