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Bird
Birds (class Aves) are winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Birds range in size from the...
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Falconiformes
The order Falconiformes is a group of about 290 species of birds that comprises the diurnal birds of prey. Raptor classification is difficult and the order is treated in several ways.
Traditionally, all the raptors are grouped into four families in...
Scientific name:
- Falconiformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 175262
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8948
Higher classification:
Ciconiiformes
Traditionally, the order Ciconiiformes has included a variety of large, long-legged wading birds with large bills: storks, herons, egrets, ibises, spoonbills, and several others. Ciconiiformes are known from the Late Eocene. At present the only...
Scientific name:
- Ciconiiformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 174770
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8920
Higher classification:
Owl
The Owls are the order Strigiformes, comprising 200 extant birds of prey, species. Most are solitary, and nocturnal, with some exceptions (e.g. the Burrowing Owl). Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, though a few species...
Scientific name:
- Strigiformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 177848
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 30458
Higher classification:
Passerine
A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines form one of the most diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders: it...
Scientific name:
- Passeriformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 178265
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 9126
Higher classification:
Cuculiformes
The near passerine bird order Cuculiformes traditionally included three families as below:
However, the taxonomy of this group is now controversial. The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy raises the Musophagidae to an order Musophagiformes which may or may...
Scientific name:
- Cuculiformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 177816
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8940
Higher classification:
Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds. It includes about 350 species and has members in all parts of the world. Most Charadriiformes live near water and eat invertebrates or other small animals; however, some are pelagic ...
Scientific name:
- Charadriiformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 176445
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8906
Higher classification:
Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, procellariids, storm-petrels and diving petrels. Formerly called Tubinares and still called tubenoses in English, they are often referred to collectively as the...
Scientific name:
- Procellariiformes
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Higher classification:
Parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines (pronounced /ˈsɪtəsaɪnz/), are birds of the roughly 372 species in 86 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most warm and tropical regions. The order is subdivded in three families: the Psittacidae...
Scientific name:
- Psittaciformes
Organisms of this type:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 177404
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 9223
Higher classification:
Columbiformes
Columbiformes are an avian order that includes the very widespread and successful doves and pigeons, classified in the family Columbidae, and the extinct Dodo and the Rodrigues Solitaire, long classified as a second family Raphidae. 313 species,...
Scientific name:
- Columbiformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 177038
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8929
Higher classification:
Galliformes
Galliformes are an order of birds containing turkeys, grouse, chickens, quails, and pheasants. More than 250 living species are found worldwide. Common names are gamefowl or gamebirds, landfowl, gallinaceous birds or galliforms. "Wildfowl" or just ...
Scientific name:
- Galliformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 175693
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8976
Higher classification:
Ratite
A ratite is any of a diverse group of large, flightless birds of Gondwanan origin, most of them now extinct. Unlike other flightless birds, the ratites have no keel on their sternum - hence their name, which comes from the Latin (ratis) for raft....
Scientific name:
- Struthioniformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 174372
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8798
Higher classification:
Gruiformes
The polyphyletic order Gruiformes contains a considerable number of living and extinct bird families with little in common. They are morphologically diverse and geographically widespread. Gruiform means "crane-like."
Traditionally, a number of...
Scientific name:
- Gruiformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 176147
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 9108
Higher classification:
Anseriformes
The order Anseriformes contains about 150 living species of birds in three extant families: the Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the Magpie Goose), and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese,...
Scientific name:
- Anseriformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 174982
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8826
Higher classification:
Accipitriformes
The Accipitriformes is a order that has been proposed to include most of the diurnal birds of prey: hawks, eagles, vultures, and many others, about 225 species in all. For a long time, they have been included with the falcons in the Falconiformes,...
Scientific name:
- Accipitriformes
Rank:
Higher classification:
Pelecaniformes
The Pelecaniformes are a (possibly invalid) order of medium-sized and large waterbirds found worldwide. As traditionally – but erroneously – defined, they encompass all birds that have feet with all four toes webbed. Hence, they were formerly also...
Scientific name:
- Pelecaniformes
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Higher classification:
Caprimulgiformes
The Caprimulgiformes is an order of birds that includes a number of birds with global distribution (except Antarctica). They are generally insectivorous and nocturnal. The order gets its name from the Latin for "goat-sucker", an old name based on an...
Scientific name:
- Caprimulgiformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 177949
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8902
Higher classification:
Coraciiformes
The Coraciiformes are a group of usually colourful near passerine birds including the kingfishers, the Hoopoe, the bee-eaters, the rollers, and the hornbills. They generally have syndactyly, with three forward-pointing toes (and toes 3 & 4 fused at...
Scientific name:
- Coraciiformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 178102
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8936
Higher classification:
Apodiformes
Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes contained three living families: the swifts, Apodidae, the tree swifts, Hemiprocnidae, and the hummingbirds, Trochilidae. In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, this order is raised to a superorder Apodimorphae in...
Scientific name:
- Apodiformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 177993
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8892
Higher classification:
Piciformes
Six families of largely arboreal birds make up the order Piciformes, the best-known of them being the Picidae, which includes the woodpeckers and close relatives. The Piciformes contain about 67 living genera with a little over 400 species, of which...
Scientific name:
- Piciformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 178140
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 9219
Higher classification:
Galbuliformes
An order of birds comprising the jacamar and puffbird families, Galbulidae and Bucconidae. there are 51 species ranging from Mexico to tropical South America.
They are about 20-30 cm long, insect eating and forest dwelling. Their toes are...
Scientific name:
- Galbuliformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 553434
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 118184
Higher classification:
Modern birds
Modern birds (subclass Neornithes) are the most recent common ancestor of all living birds (class Aves) and all its descendants.
Modern birds are characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth (ancient birds had teeth), the laying of hard-shelled...
Scientific name:
- Neornithes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
Higher classification:
Tinamiformes
Scientific name:
- Tinamiformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 174397
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 8802
Higher classification:
Neotropical migratory bird
Higher classification:
Craciformes
Chachalacas, Currasows, Guans, Malleefowl and Scrubfowls
Scientific name:
- Craciformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 553431
Higher classification:
Turniciformes
Buttonquail were traditionally placed in Gruiformes or Galliformes (the crane and pheasant orders). The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy elevated them to ordinal status as the Turniciformes and basal to other Neoaves either because...
Scientific name:
- Turniciformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 553432
Higher classification:
Bucerotiformes
This order, consisting of Hornbills is divided into two families (Bucerotidae, Bucorvidae) and nine genera. They are strictly 'old world' birds with ranges extending from Africa across India and Asia to Papua New Guinea. The group is characterized...
Scientific name:
- Bucerotiformes
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 553435
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 57379
Higher classification:
Upupiformes
Hoopoes and Scimitarbill. In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, the Hoopoe is separated from the Coraciiformes as a separate order, the Upupiformes.
Scientific name:
- Upupiformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 553436
Higher classification:
Trochiliformes
In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, Apodiformes is raised to a superorder Apodimorphae in which hummingbirds are separated as a new order, Trochiliformes, but this was refuted by subsequent research. Hermits and Hummingbirds ...
Scientific name:
- Trochiliformes
Rank:
Higher classification:
Musophagiformes
the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy raises this group of Plantain-eaters and Touracos to a full order Musophagiformes. They have been proposed to link the mysterious Hoatzin to the other living birds[1] but this was later...
Scientific name:
- Musophagiformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 553438
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 56301
Higher classification:
Sphenisciformes
Scientific name:
- Sphenisciformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 9230
Higher classification:
Coliiformes
Scientific name:
- Coliiformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 178091
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 57384
Higher classification:
Trogoniformes
Scientific name:
- Trogoniformes
Lower classifications:
Rank:
ITIS Taxon S/N:
- 178093
NCBI Taxon ID:
- 56308
