Ciconiiformes

There are a total of five families in this order. All eat a diet of aquatic animals and have nidicolous young.

• Ardeidae (herons, bitterns)
• Balaenicipitidae (shoe-billed stork)
• Scopidae (hammerhead)
• Threskiornithidae (ibises, spoonbills)
• Ciconiidae (storks)