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