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Shoebills
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Shoebills

Balaenicipitidae

Balaenicipitidae is a family of birds in the Pelecaniformes order, although it was traditionally placed in Ciconiiformes. It has the below genera:

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1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 1 known species

Shoebills

genusBalaeniceps

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71297.