Bird Classification Continued
Order | Family | Species | Description | Habits | Distribution | Habitats | Habits | Food | Other
Ratites (ostrich, emu, rhea) | Struthioniformes | Struthion | Male black white, female brown | Savana rocky terrain with sparse vegetation | Africa | Africa | 20 eggs, 42 d IP, female day light brooding, male in night | Vegetable matter, amphibian, reptiles | Concentrate urine and separate it from fecal matter in cloaca, head in the sand myth
| Casuariiformes | Dromaiidae | Emu | Brown keel crop, gall bladder | Scrapy steppe | Australia (national bird) | Australia (national bird) | 5-25 eggs, 53-60 d IP by male only | Vegetable matter | -
| Accipitriformes | Accipitridae | Osprey | White, black + black band around the eye | River, coast, lake | Worldwide | Worldwide | Eat fish only, called fish eagle by leg | -
| Falconiformes | Falconidae | Egyptian Vulture | White, black, yellow peak | Desert, semi desert, block terrain | Asia, Africa, Europe | Asia, Africa, Europe | Carrions, rotten fruit, dung, fecal matter | Use rock to break egg of ostrich (usual habit)
| Strigiformes | Tytonidae | Barn owl | - | Grassland, cultivated land, park, garden | Worldwide | Worldwide | Carnivorous, small mammals, reptiles | -