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- Anseriformes
  - Anatidae
    - Cygnus
      - Mute Swan
      - Tundra Swan
      - Whooper Swan
    - Anser
      - Bean Goose
      - Greater White fronted Goose
      - Lesser White fronted Goose
      - Greylag Goose
    - Branta
      - Red breasted Goose
    - Tadorna
      - Ruddy Shelduck
      - Common Shelduck
    - Anas
      - Eurasian Wigeon
      - Gadwall
      - Eurasian Teal
      - Mallard
      - Northern Pintail
      - Garganey
      - Northern Shoveler
    - Netta
      - Red crested Pochard
    - Aythya
      - Common Pochard
      - Ferruginous Duck
      - Tufted Duck
      - Greater Scaup
    - Somateria
      - Common Eider
    - Clangula
      - Long tailed Duck
    - Melanitta
      - Common Scoter
      - Velvet Scoter
    - Bucephala
      - Common Goldeneye
    - Mergellus
      - Smew
    - Mergus
      - Red breasted Merganser
      - Goosander
    - Oxyura
      - White headed Duck
    - Alopochen
      - Egyptian goose
- Galliformes
  - Phasianidae
    - Tetrastes
      - Hazel Grouse
    - Tetrao
      - Western Capercaillie
    - Alectoris
      - Chukar Partridge
      - Rock Partridge
      - Red legged Partridge
    - Perdix
      - Grey Partridge
    - Coturnix
      - Common Quail
    - Phasianus
      - Common Pheasant
- Gaviiformes
  - Gaviidae
    - Gavia
      - Red throated Loon
      - Black throated Loon
      - Great Northern Loon
- Podicipediformes
  - Podicipedidae
    - Tachybaptus
      - Little Grebe
    - Podiceps
      - Great Crested Grebe
      - Red necked Grebe
      - Horned Grebe
      - Black necked Grebe
- Procellariiformes
  - Procellariidae
    - Calonectris
      - Cory's Shearwater
    - Puffinus
      - Great Shearwater
      - Yelkouan Shearwater
  - Hydrobatidae
    - Hydrobates
      - European Storm Petrel
- Suliformes
  - Sulidae
    - Morus
      - Northern Gannet
  - Phalacrocoracidae
    - Phalacrocorax
      - Great Cormorant
      - European Shag
      - Pygmy Cormorant
- Pelecaniformes
  - Pelecanidae
    - Pelecanus
      - Great White Pelican
      - Dalmatian Pelican
- Ciconiiformes
  - Ardeidae
    - Botaurus
      - Eurasian Bittern
    - Ixobrychus
      - Little Bittern
    - Nycticorax
      - Black crowned Night Heron
    - Ardeola
      - Squacco Heron
    - Bubulcus
      - Cattle Egret
    - Egretta
      - Little Egret
      - Great Egret
      - Black Heron
    - Ardea
      - Grey Heron
      - Purple Heron
    - Butorides
      - Striated heron
  - Ciconiidae
    - Ciconia
      - Black Stork
      - White Stork
  - Threskiornithidae
    - Plegadis
      - Glossy Ibis
    - Platalea
      - Eurasian Spoonbill
- Phoenicopteriformes
  - Phoenicopteridae
    - Phoenicopterus
      - Greater Flamingo
- Accipitriformes
  - Accipitridae
    - Pernis
      - European Honey Buzzard
    - Milvus
      - Black Kite
      - Red Kite
    - Haliaeetus
      - White tailed Eagle
    - Gypaetus
      - Bearded Vulture
    - Neophron
      - Egyptian Vulture
    - Gyps
      - Griffon Vulture
    - Aegypius
      - Cinereous Vulture
    - Circaetus
      - Short toed Snake Eagle
    - Circus
      - Western Marsh Harrier
      - Hen Harrier
      - Pallid Harrier
      - Montagu's Harrier
    - Accipiter
      - Northern Goshawk
      - Eurasian Sparrowhawk
      - Levant Sparrowhawk
    - Buteo
      - Common Buzzard
      - Long legged Buzzard
      - Rough legged Buzzard
    - Aquila
      - Lesser Spotted Eagle
      - Greater Spotted Eagle
      - Steppe Eagle
      - Eastern Imperial Eagle
      - Golden Eagle
      - Booted Eagle
      - Bonelli's Eagle
  - Pandionidae
    - Pandion
      - Osprey
- Falconiformes
  - Falconidae
    - Falco
      - Lesser Kestrel
      - Common Kestrel
      - Red footed Falcon
      - Merlin
      - Eurasian Hobby
      - Eleonora's Falcon
      - Lanner Falcon
      - Saker Falcon
      - Peregrine Falcon
- Gruiformes
  - Rallidae
    - Rallus
      - Water Rail
    - Porzana
      - Spotted Crake
      - Little Crake
      - Baillon's Crake
    - Crex
      - Corn Crake
    - Gallinula
      - Common Moorhen
    - Fulica
      - Eurasian Coot
  - Gruidae
    - Grus
      - Common Crane
      - Demoiselle Crane
  - Otididae
    - Tetrax
      - Little Bustard
- Charadriiformes
  - Haematopodidae
    - Haematopus
      - Eurasian Oystercatcher
  - Recurvirostridae
    - Himantopus
      - Black winged Stilt
    - Recurvirostra
      - Pied Avocet
  - Burhinidae
    - Burhinus
      - Eurasian Stone curlew
  - Glareolidae
    - Cursorius
      - Cream coloured Courser
    - Glareola
      - Collared Pratincole
      - Black winged Pratincole
  - Charadriidae
    - Charadrius
      - Little Ringed Plover
      - Common Ringed Plover
      - Kentish Plover
      - Greater Sand Plover
      - Eurasian Dotterel
    - Pluvialis
      - Pacific Golden Plover
      - European Golden Plover
      - Grey Plover
    - Vanellus
      - Spur winged Lapwing
      - White tailed Lapwing
      - Northern Lapwing
  - Scolopacidae
    - Calidris
      - Red Knot
      - Sanderling
      - Little Stint
      - Temminck's Stint
      - Pectoral Sandpiper
      - Curlew Sandpiper
      - Dunlin
    - Limicola
      - Broad billed Sandpiper
    - Philomachus
      - Ruff
    - Lymnocryptes
      - Jack Snipe
    - Gallinago
      - Common Snipe
      - Great Snipe
    - Limnodromus
      - Long billed Dowitcher
    - Scolopax
      - Eurasian Woodcock
    - Limosa
      - Black tailed Godwit
      - Bar tailed Godwit
    - Numenius
      - Whimbrel
      - Slender billed Curlew
      - Eurasian Curlew
    - Tringa
      - Spotted Redshank
      - Common Redshank
      - Marsh Sandpiper
      - Common Greenshank
      - Green Sandpiper
      - Wood Sandpiper
    - Xenus
      - Terek Sandpiper
    - Actitis
      - Common Sandpiper
    - Arenaria
      - Ruddy Turnstone
    - Phalaropus
      - Wilson's Phalarope
      - Red necked Phalarope
      - Red Phalarope
  - Stercorariidae
    - Stercorarius
      - Pomarine Skua
      - Parasitic Jaeger
      - Great Skua
  - Laridae
    - Rissa
      - Black legged Kittiwake
    - Larus
      - Black headed Gull
      - Slender billed Gull
      - Mediterranean Gull
      - Audouin's Gull
      - Common Gull
      - Lesser Black backed Gull
      - European Herring Gull
      - Yellow legged Gull
      - Caspian Gull
      - Armenian Gull
      - Great Black backed Gull
    - Hydrocoloeus
      - Little Gull
    - Ichthyaetus
      - Pallas's Gull
  - Sternidae
    - Sternula
      - Little Tern
    - Gelochelidon
      - Gull billed Tern
    - Hydroprogne
      - Caspian Tern
    - Chlidonias
      - Whiskered Tern
      - Black Tern
      - White winged Tern
    - Sterna
      - Sandwich Tern
      - Common Tern
- Columbiformes
  - Columbidae
    - Columba
      - Rock Dove
      - Stock Dove
      - Common Wood Pigeon
    - Streptopelia
      - Eurasian Collared Dove
      - European Turtle Dove
      - Oriental Turtle Dove
      - Laughing Dove
- Psittaciformes
  - Psittaculidae
    - Psittacula
      - Rose ringed Parakeet
- Cuculiformes
  - Cuculidae
    - Clamator
      - Great Spotted Cuckoo
    - Cuculus
      - Common Cuckoo
- Strigiformes
  - Tytonidae
    - Tyto
      - Barn Owl
  - Strigidae
    - Otus
      - Eurasian Scops Owl
    - Bubo
      - Eurasian Eagle Owl
    - Glaucidium
      - Eurasian Pygmy Owl
    - Athene
      - Little Owl
    - Strix
      - Tawny Owl
    - Asio
      - Long eared Owl
      - Short eared Owl
    - Aegolius
      - Boreal Owl
- Caprimulgiformes
  - Caprimulgidae
    - Caprimulgus
      - European Nightjar
- Apodiformes
  - Apodidae
    - Apus
      - Alpine Swift
      - Common Swift
      - Pallid Swift
- Coraciiformes
  - Halcyonidae
    - Alcedo
      - Common Kingfisher
  - Meropidae
    - Merops
      - Blue cheeked Bee eater
      - European Bee eater
  - Coraciidae
    - Coracias
      - European Roller
  - Upupidae
    - Upupa
      - Hoopoe
- Piciformes
  - Picidae
    - Jynx
      - Eurasian Wryneck
    - Picus
      - Grey headed Woodpecker
      - European Green Woodpecker
    - Dryocopus
      - Black Woodpecker
    - Dendrocopos
      - Great Spotted Woodpecker
      - Syrian Woodpecker
      - Middle Spotted Woodpecker
      - White backed Woodpecker
      - Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
- Passeriformes
  - Alaudidae
    - Melanocorypha
      - Calandra Lark
    - Calandrella
      - Greater Short toed Lark
      - Lesser Short toed Lark
    - Galerida
      - Crested Lark
    - Lullula
      - Woodlark
    - Alauda
      - Eurasian Skylark
    - Eremophila
      - Horned Lark
  - Hirundinidae
    - Riparia
      - Sand Martin
    - Ptyonoprogne
      - Eurasian Crag Martin
    - Hirundo
      - Barn Swallow
    - Delichon
      - Common House Martin
    - Cecropis
      - Red rumped Swallow
  - Motacillidae
    - Anthus
      - Richard's Pipit
      - Tawny Pipit
      - Tree Pipit
      - Meadow Pipit
      - Red throated Pipit
      - Water Pipit
    - Motacilla
      - Western Yellow Wagtail
      - Citrine Wagtail
      - Grey Wagtail
      - White Wagtail
  - Cinclidae
    - Cinclus
      - White throated Dipper
  - Troglodytidae
    - Troglodytes
      - Eurasian Wren
  - Prunellidae
    - Prunella
      - Dunnock
      - Alpine Accentor
  - Muscicapidae
    - Cercotrichas
      - Rufous tailed Scrub Robin
    - Erithacus
      - European Robin
    - Luscinia
      - Thrush Nightingale
      - Common Nightingale
      - Bluethroat
    - Irania
      - White throated Robin
    - Phoenicurus
      - Black Redstart
      - Common Redstart
    - Oenanthe
      - Isabelline Wheatear
      - Northern Wheatear
      - Pied Wheatear
      - Black eared Wheatear
      - Desert Wheatear
    - Monticola
      - Common Rock Thrush
      - Blue Rock Thrush
    - Turdus
      - Ring Ouzel
      - Common Blackbird
      - Fieldfare
      - Song Thrush
      - Redwing
      - Mistle Thrush
    - Muscicapa
      - Spotted Flycatcher
    - Ficedula
      - Red breasted Flycatcher
      - Semicollared Flycatcher
      - Collared Flycatcher
      - European Pied Flycatcher
  - Turdidae
    - Saxicola
      - Whinchat
      - African Stonechat
      - Siberian stonechat
  - Sylvioidea
    - Cettia
      - Cetti's Warbler
    - Locustella
      - Common Grasshopper Warbler
      - River Warbler
      - Savi's Warbler
    - Acrocephalus
      - Moustached Warbler
      - Sedge Warbler
      - Eurasian Reed Warbler
      - Marsh Warbler
      - Great Reed Warbler
    - Hippolais
      - Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
      - Olive tree Warbler
      - Icterine Warbler
      - Melodious Warbler
    - Sylvia
      - Eurasian Blackcap
      - Garden Warbler
      - Barred Warbler
      - Lesser Whitethroat
      - Eastern Orphean Warbler
      - Common Whitethroat
      - Spectacled Warbler
      - Subalpine Warbler
      - Sardinian Warbler
      - Rüppell's Warbler
      - Asian desert warbler
  - Cettiidae
    - Cisticola
      - Zitting Cisticola
  - Phylloscopidae
    - Phylloscopus
      - Yellow browed Warbler
      - Eastern Bonelli's Warbler
      - Wood Warbler
      - Common Chiffchaff
      - Willow Warbler
      - Pallas's leaf warbler
  - Regulidae
    - Regulus
      - Goldcrest
      - Common Firecrest
  - Timaliidae
    - Panurus
      - Bearded Reedling
  - Aegithalidae
    - Aegithalos
      - Long tailed Tit
  - Paridae
    - Parus
      - Blue Tit
      - Great Tit
      - European Crested Tit
      - Coal Tit
      - Marsh Tit
      - Sombre Tit
      - Willow Tit
  - Sittidae
    - Sitta
      - Krüper's Nuthatch
      - Eurasian Nuthatch
      - Western Rock Nuthatch
  - Tichodromadidae
    - Tichodroma
      - Wallcreeper
  - Certhiidae
    - Certhia
      - Eurasian Treecreeper
      - Short toed Treecreeper
  - Remizidae
    - Remiz
      - Eurasian Penduline Tit
  - Oriolidae
    - Oriolus
      - Eurasian Golden Oriole
  - Laniidae
    - Lanius
      - Isabelline Shrike
      - Red backed Shrike
      - Lesser Grey Shrike
      - Great Grey Shrike
      - Woodchat Shrike
      - Masked Shrike
  - Corvidae
    - Garrulus
      - Eurasian Jay
    - Pica
      - Eurasian Magpie
    - Nucifraga
      - Spotted Nutcracker
    - Pyrrhocorax
      - Alpine Chough
      - Red billed Chough
    - Corvus
      - Western Jackdaw
      - Rook
      - Carrion Crow
      - Common Raven
  - Sturnidae
    - Sturnus
      - Common Starling
      - Rosy Starling
  - Passeridae
    - Passer
      - House Sparrow
      - Spanish Sparrow
      - Eurasian Tree Sparrow
      - Italian sparrow
    - Petronia
      - Rock Sparrow
    - Montifringilla
      - White winged Snowfinch
  - Fringillidae
    - Fringilla
      - Common Chaffinch
      - Brambling
    - Serinus
      - European Serin
    - Carduelis
      - European Greenfinch
      - European Goldfinch
      - Eurasian Siskin
      - Common Linnet
    - Loxia
      - Red Crossbill
    - Bucanetes
      - Trumpeter Finch
    - Carpodacus
      - Common Rosefinch
    - Pyrrhula
      - Eurasian Bullfinch
    - Coccothraustes
      - Hawfinch
  - Emberizidae
    - Plectrophenax
      - Snow Bunting
    - Emberiza
      - Pine Bunting
      - Yellowhammer
      - Cirl Bunting
      - Rock Bunting
      - Cinereous Bunting
      - Ortolan Bunting
      - Cretzschmar's Bunting
      - Little Bunting
      - Reed Bunting
      - Black headed Bunting
      - Corn Bunting