ciconiidae

This would make Ciconiidae the only group.

All these birds should form one large group with the Ardeidae and clearly distinguished from the Ciconiidae.

They belong to the family Ciconiidae.

The greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae.

The African openbill (Anastomus lamelligerus) is a species of stork in the Ciconiidae family.

The lesser adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus) is a large wading bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.

The Oriental stork (Ciconia boyciana) is a large, white bird with black wing feathers in the stork family Ciconiidae.

STORKS AND WOOD IBISES: Ciconiidae.

STORKS Ciconiiformes Ciconiidae Black Stork Ciconia nigra Monfragüe Natural Park (one sitting on its nest 8th & three+ on 12th); Río Magasca (two adults on 10th).

The reason for this is the controversial systematic history of the New World vultures as they were assumed to be more related to (or a subfamily of) Ciconiidae (the storks) after Sibley and Ahlquist work on their DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.