User:MeegsC/Articles/List of monotypic bird families

Only a very few bird species – 36, out of almost 11,000 known species — are members of monotypic bird families. This means that they have no close living relatives.

Order	Family	Species	Picture	Habitat and range
Anseriformes	Anseranatidae	Magpie goose		Open wetlands in northern Australia and southern New Guinea
Gruiformes	Aramidae	Limpkin		Tropical wetlands from Florida to Ecuador and northern Argentina
Pelecaniformes	Balaenicipitidae	Shoebill		Freshwater swamps of tropical central Africa
Passeriformes	Donacobiidae	Black-capped donacobius		Freshwater wetlands in northern and central South America
Charadriiformes	Dromadidae	Crab-plover		Coasts and islands in the Indian Ocean
Passeriformes	Dulidae	Palmchat		Palm savanna and open areas with scattered trees on the island of Hispaniola
Passeriformes	Elachuridae	Spotted elachura		Moist forest in the Himalayas and southeast Asia
Passeriformes	Eulacestomatidae	Wattled ploughbill		Forest in the central mountain ranges of New Guinea
Passeriformes	Eupetidae	Rail-babbler		Tall lowland forest, swamp and heath forest on the Malay Peninsula and the Greater Sundas
Eurypygiformes	Eurypygidae	Sunbittern
Passeriformes	Falcunculidae	Crested shriketit
Passeriformes	Hypocoliidae	Grey hypocolius
Charadriiformes	Ibidorhynchidae	Ibisbill
Passeriformes	Icteriidae	Yellow-breasted chat
Passeriformes	Ifritidae	Blue-capped ifrit
Leptosomiformes	Leptosomidae	Cuckoo roller
Passeriformes	Nesospingidae	Puerto Rican tanager
Passeriformes	Notiomystidae	Stitchbird
Opisthocomiformes	Opisthocomidae	Hoatzin
Passeriformes	Panuridae	Bearded reedling
Charadriiformes	Pedionomidae	Plains-wanderer
Passeriformes	Peucedramidae	Olive warbler
Passeriformes	Platylophidae	Crested jayshrike
Passeriformes	Pityriaseidae	Bornean bristlehead
Charadriiformes	Pluvianellidae	Magellanic plover
Charadriiformes	Pluvianidae	Egyptian plover
Passeriformes	Rhagologidae	Mottled berryhunter
Passeriformes	Rhodinocichlidae	Rosy thrush-tanager
Eurypygiformes	Rhynochetidae	Kagu
Passeriformes	Sapayoidae	Sapayoa
Falconiformes	Sagittariidae	Secretarybird
Pelecaniformes	Scopidae	Hamerkop
Passeriformes	Scotocercidae	Streaked scrub warbler
Steatornithiformes	Steatornithidae	Oilbird
Passeriformes	Tichodromadidae	Wallcreeper
Passeriformes	Urocynchramidae	Przevalski's finch

Citations

• Carboneras, Carlos (1992). "Magpie Goose". In del Hoyo, Josep; Elliott, Andrew; Sargatal, Jordi (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 1. Lynx Edicions. pp. 574–575. ISBN 84-87334-10-5.
• IOC (2022a). "Screamers, ducks, geese, swans". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
• IOC (2022b). "Finfoots, flufftails, rails, trumpeters, cranes, Limpkin". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
• IOC (2022c). "Ibis, spoonbills, herons, Hamerkop, Shoebill, pelicans". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
• IOC (2022d). "Grassbirds, Donacobius, tetrakas, cisticolas, allies". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
• IOC (2022e). "Sandpipers, snipes, Crab-plover, coursers". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
• IOC (2022f). "Waxwings and allies, tits, penduline tits". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
• IOC (2022g). "Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, Elachura, hyliotas, wrens, gnatcatchers". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
• IOC (2022h). "Whiteheads, sittellas, Ploughbill, Australo-Papuan bellbirds, Shriketit, whistlers". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.
• IOC (2022i). "Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers, Rail-babbler". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.

• IOC (2022x). "Nightjars, Oilbird, potoos, frogmouths". IOC World Bird List. Retrieved 11 April 2022.