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

heron - gray or white wading bird with long neck and long legs and (usually) long bill

Ardea, genus Ardea - type genus of the Ardeidae: large New and Old World herons

Egretta, genus Egretta - small Old and New World herons

Casmerodius, genus Casmerodius - a white egrets

Bubulcus, genus Bubulcus - small white egrets

genus Nycticorax, Nycticorax - Old World night herons

genus Nyctanassa, Nyctanassa - American night herons

Cochlearius, genus Cochlearius - boatbills

Botaurus, genus Botaurus - bitterns

genus Ixobrychus, Ixobrychus - bitterns