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This is the complete list of bird genera and species grouped under the different orders.

=Struthioniformes=

Struthio
There are two species:

=Rheiformes=

Rhea
There are two species:

=Tinamiformes= This is the order of all tinamous and nothuras. Tinamous are much like their cousins at New Zealand, the kiwis. They are rattites, flightless birds. here is one family, the Tinamidae.

Tinamidae
All tinamous are in the same family, which in turn are divided into nine genera, listed below.

Tinamus
Some of the larger species of tinamous are grouped in this taxa. It consists of 5 extant species.
 * Tinamus guttatus (white-throated tinamou)
 * Tinamus tao (grey tinamou)
 * T. t. larensis
 * T. t. kleei
 * T. t. septentrionalis
 * T. t. tao
 * Tinamus solitarius (solitary tinamou)
 * Tinamus osgoodi (black tinamou)
 * T. o. osgoodi
 * T. o. hershkovitzi
 * Tinamus major (great tinamou)
 * T. m. percautus
 * T. m. robustus
 * T. m. fuscipennis
 * T. m. castaneiceps
 * T. m. brunniventris
 * T. m. saturatus
 * T. m. latifrons
 * T. m. zuliensis
 * T. m. major
 * T. m. olivascence
 * T. m. peruvians
 * T. m. serratus

Nothocercus
This genus has three extant species, namely:
 * Nothocercus bonapartei (highland tinamou)
 * ''N. b. frantzii
 * ''N. b. bonapartei
 * ''N. b. discrepans
 * ''N. b. intercedens
 * ''N. b. plumbeiceps
 * Nothocercus julius (tawny-breasted tinamou)
 * Nothocercus nigrocapillus (hooded tinamou)
 * '' N. n. nigrocapillus
 * '' N. n. cadwaladeri

Crypturellus
The genus Crypturellus contains species of forest-dwelling tinamous. Though some may oddly be grassland species, they were group to the same genus for their unique sexual dimorphism. Females are more heavily barred than their male species. They contain 21 extant species, the largest genus in the order Tinamiformes.
 * Crypturellus berlepschi (Berlepsch tinamou)
 * Crypturellus soui (little tinamou)
 * Crypturellus cinereus (cinereous tinamou)
 * Crypturellus ptaritepui (Tepui tinamou)
 * Crypturellus obsoletus (brown tinamou)
 * Crypturellus undulatus (undulated tinamou)
 * Crypturellus transfasciatus (pale-browed tinamou)
 * Crypturellus strigulosus (Brazilian tinamou)
 * Crypturellus duidae (grey-legged tinamou)
 * Crypturellus erythroupus (red-legged tinamou)
 * Crypturellus noctivagus (yellow-legged tinamou)
 * Crypturellus athocapillus (black-capped tinamou)
 * Crypturellus cinnamomeus (thicket tinamou)
 * Crypturellus boucardi (slaty-breasted tinamou)
 * Crypturellus kerriae (choco tinamou)
 * Crypturellus variegatus (variegated tinamou)
 * Crypturellus brevirostris (rusty tinamou)
 * Crypturellus bartletti (Bartlett's tinamou)
 * Crypturellus parvirostris (small-billed tinamou)
 * Crypturellus casquiare (barred tinamou)
 * Crypturellus tataupa (Tataupa tinamou)

Rhynchotus
There are two extant species under this taxa, namely:
 * Rhynchotus rufescens (red-winged tinamou)
 * Rhynchotus maculicolis (Huayco tinamou)

Nothoprocta
The tinamou species under this taxa have distinctive curved beaks and mostly lives in western South America at the foots of Andes Mountains. They are mostly flightless with some occasions of flight - as a defense mechanism. There are six (6) species under these genus:
 * Nothoprocta taczanowskii (Taczanowski's tinamou)
 * Nothoprocta ornata (ornate tinamou)
 * Nothoprocta perdicaria (Chilean tinamou)
 * Nothoprocta cinerascens (brushland tinamou)
 * Nothoprocta pentlandii (Andean tinamou)
 * Nothoprocta curvirostris (curve-billed tinamou)

Nothura
In taxonomic order, here is the list of five (5) extant species of the genus Nothura.
 * Nothura boraquira (white-bellied nothura)
 * Nothura minor (lesser nothura)
 * Nothura darwinii (Darwin's nothura)
 * Nothura maculosa (spotted nothura)
 * Nothura chacoensis (Chaco nothura)

Taoniscus
This genus has a monophyletic species and therefore, is the only extant species in Taoniscus. It is a small superficially partridge-like nothura with short tail and wings.
 * Taoniscus nanus (dwarf tinamou)

Eudromia
This tinamou has two species of crested tinamous, thus belonging to the different genus. However, the main characteristics of Eudromia is their behavior of escaping the predators by running, not flying - thus its namesake. ( Eu means well or nice, and dromos meaning running escape. )
 * Eudromia elegans (elegant crested tinamou)
 * Eudromia formosa (Quebracho crested tinamou)

Tinamotis
This genus contains two species:
 * Tinamotis pentlandii (Puna tinamou)
 * Tinamotis ingoufi (Patagonian tinamou)

=Casuariiformes= This order of birds are composed of two families, the Casuariidae or the cassowaries and Dromaidae or the emu. They live in New Guinea and Australia, respectively. Like their distant relatives, the ostrich and the rheas, they are considered ratites. They are stocky and big, rendering them the incapacity to fly. However, they are good runners.

Casuariidae
Cassowaries are mainly found in New Guinea. This family has only one genus, the Casuarius, in which all of its three species belong.
 * C. casuarius (Southern cassowary or double-wattled cassowaru)
 * C. bennetti (Bennett's cassowary or dwarf cassowary)
 * C. unappendiculatus (Northern cassowary or single-wattled cassowary)

Dromaidae
The emu is the only species of the family Dromaidae. It inhabits the lesser populated and lightly settled areas of Australia.
 * D. novaehollandiae (emu)

=Apterygiformes= This order of bird is mainly found in New Zealand. This is where kiwis belong. Same with tinamous, their distant cousins in South America, they are rattites. They do not have the capacity to fly. This is mainly atttibuted to the lack of predators that may prey on them. Their long bills are specialized in scrouging insects and small invertebrates on land and underneath soils

Apterygidae
There is only one family under the order Apterygiformes, the Apterygidae.

Apteryx
This monopyletic genus is the only genus under the taxa. This includes all five species of kiwis found in New Zealand.
 * Apteryx haastii (great spotted kiwi)
 * Apteryx owenii (little spotted kiwi)
 * Apteryx rowii (Okarito kiwi)
 * Apteryx australis (southern brown kiwi)
 * Apteryx mantelli (North Is. brown kiwi)

=Anseriformes=

Dendrocygna (whistling ducks)
There are eight extant species under the genus Dendrocygna.
 * D. arborea (West Indian whistling duck)
 * D. arcuata (wandering whistling duck)
 * D. autumnalis (black-bellied whisling duck)
 * D. bicolor (fulvous whistling duck)
 * D. eytoni (plumed whisling duck)
 * D. guttata (spotted whistling duck)
 * D. javanica (lesser whistling duck)
 * D. viduata (white-faced whistling duck)

Thalassornis
The white-backed duck is the sole species under this genus.
 * T. leuconotus (white-backed duck)

Cygnus (true swans)
This genus under Anatidae includes all swans. They mostly thrive in colder places and five of its six species are found in the Northern Hemisphere. Only one true swan lives in the Southern Hemisphere and winters there, the black swan. Because of the fact that the northern swans are all white, they assumed all swans are white and even produced an idiom a black swan which denotes an impossible event or phenomenon. There are seven presumed extant species but the coscoroba swan is now disregarded as a true swan, and instead, placed under the genus Coscoroba. The complete list of species are as follows:
 * Cygnus olor (mute swan)
 * Cygnus atratus (black swan)
 * Cygnus melancoryphus (black-necked swan)
 * Cygnus cygnus (whooper swan)
 * Cygnus buccinator (trumpeter swan)
 * Cygnus columbianus (tundra swan)

Marmaronetta
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