Ciconiidae

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a natural family of birds comprising the storks.

Thesaurus

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Ciconiidae - storks family Ciconiidae bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings Ciconiiformes, order Ciconiiformes - order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet: herons; storks; spoonbills; flamingos; ibises stork - large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage Ciconia, genus Ciconia - type genus of the Ciconiidae: European storks genus Leptoptilus, Leptoptilus - adjutant birds and marabous Anastomus, genus Anastomus - openbills genus Jabiru - jabirus Ephippiorhynchus, genus Ephippiorhynchus - saddlebills genus Xenorhyncus, Xenorhyncus - East Indian and Australian storks genus Mycteria, Mycteria - a genus of storks of the family Ciconiidae now including only the American wood ibis