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    Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), family Scopidae, order Pelicaniformes, South Africa

    • The taxonomic affinities of this bird have been greatly debated over the year, and now is believed to be in the Pelecaniformes.
    • This is the only bird in this family.

    photograph by Margitta Thomann

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