King Penguins at Salisbury Plain (5719466981)

This article lists living

orders Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...

and families of birds. The links below should then lead to family accounts and hence to individual species. The passerines (perching birds) alone account for well over 5,000 species. In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of the real number places it at almost twice that. Taxonomy is very fluid in the age of DNA analysis, so comments are made where appropriate, and all numbers are approximate. In particular see Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy for a very different classification.

Phylogeny

Cladogram of modern bird relationships based on Jarvis, E.D. et al. (2014) with some

clade A clade (), also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a group of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree. Rather than the English term, ...

names after Yuri, T. et al. (2013).

Paleognathae

The Paleognathae, or "old jaws", are one of the two superorders recognized within the taxonomic class Aves and consist of the

ratite A ratite () is any of a diverse group of flightless, large, long-necked, and long-legged birds of the infraclass Palaeognathae. Kiwi, the exception, are much smaller and shorter-legged and are the only nocturnal extant ratites. The systematics ...

s and tinamous. The ratites are mostly large and long-legged,

flightless Flightless birds are birds that through evolution lost the ability to fly. There are over 60 extant species, including the well known ratites (ostriches, emu, cassowaries, rheas, and kiwi) and penguins. The smallest flightless bird is the ...

birds, lacking a keeled sternum. Traditionally, all the ratites were place in the order Struthioniformes. However, recent genetic analysis has found that the group is not monophyletic, as it is paraphyletic with respect to the tinamous, so the ostriches are classified as the only members of the order Struthioniformes and other rattites placed in other orders.

Struthioniformes

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Africa; 2 species *

Struthionidae Struthionidae (; ) is a family of flightless birds, containing the extant ostriches and their extinct relatives. The two extant species of ostrich are the common ostrich and Somali ostrich, both in the genus ''Struthio'', which also contains seve ...

: ostrich

Notopalaeognathae Notopalaeognathae is a clade that contains the order Rheiformes (rheas), the clade Novaeratitae (birds such as the kiwis and the emus), the order Tinamiformes (tinamous) and the extinct order Dinornithiformes (the moas). The exact relationships ...

Rheiformes

South America; 2 species * †Opisthodactylidae * Rheidae: rheas

Casuariiformes

Australasia; 4 species *

Casuariidae The bird family Casuariidae has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary and the emu. All living members of the family are very large flightless birds native to Australia-New Guinea.Clements, J (2007) Species *† ''Emuarius'' Bol ...

: cassowaries and emu

Apterygiformes Kiwi ( ) are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes. The five extant species fall into the family Apterygidae () and genus ''Apteryx'' (). Approximately the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest ...

Australasia; 5 species *

Apterygidae Kiwi ( ) are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes. The five extant species fall into the family Apterygidae () and genus ''Apteryx'' (). Approximately the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest ...

: kiwis

Aepyornithiformes

Madagascar * † Aepyornithidae: elephant birds

Dinornithiformes

New Zealand * † Megalapteryidae: upland moas * † Dinornithidae: great moas * †

Emeidae The lesser moa (family Emeidae) were a family in the moa order Dinornithiformes. About two-thirds of all moa species are in the lesser moa family. The moa were ratites from New Zealand. Ratites are flightless birds with a sternum without a keel. ...

: lesser moas

Tinamiformes

South America; 45 species * Tinamidae: tinamous

Neognathae Neognathae (; ) is a infraclass of birds, called neognaths, within the class Aves of the clade Archosauria. Neognathae includes the majority of living birds; the exceptions being the tinamous and the flightless ratites, which belong instead to ...

Nearly all living birds belong to the superorder

Neognathae Neognathae (; ) is a infraclass of birds, called neognaths, within the class Aves of the clade Archosauria. Neognathae includes the majority of living birds; the exceptions being the tinamous and the flightless ratites, which belong instead to ...

or "new jaws". With their keeled sternum (breastbone), unlike the ratites, they are known as carinatae.

Galloanserae

Galliformes

Worldwide; 250 species * †

Sylviornithidae Sylviornithidae is an extinct family of flightless birds, known from subfossil bones found in Holocene aged deposits on the Melanesian islands of New Caledonia and Fiji. Traditionally assumed to be within Galliformes, recent phylogenetic studies ...

* Megapodii ** Megapodidae: megapodes * Craci ** Cracidae: chachalacas,

curassow Curassows are one of the three major groups of cracid birds. They comprise the largest-bodied species of the cracid family. Three of the four genera are restricted to tropical South America; a single species of ''Crax'' ranges north to Mexico. ...

s, and guans * Phasiani ** Numidioidea *** Numididae: guineafowl **

Phasianoidea Phasianoidea is a superfamily of birds of the order of the Galliformes. Taxonomy Description The superfamily was described in 1825 by the Irish zoologist Nicholas Aylward Vigors. Etymology The name ''Phasianoidea'' is formed by the union ...

: pheasants and allies *** Odontophoridae: New World quail ***

Phasianidae The Phasianidae are a family (biology), family of heavy, ground-living birds, which includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, Turkey bird, turkeys, Old World quail, and peafowl. The family includes many of the most popular Game (hunti ...

: pheasants and relatives

Gastornithiformes Gastornithiformes were an extinct order of giant flightless fowl with fossils found in North America, Eurasia, and possibly Australia. Members of Gastornithidae were long considered to be a part of the order Gruiformes. However, the traditiona ...

* † Gastornithidae * †

Dromornithidae Dromornithidae, known as mihirungs and informally as thunder birds or demon ducks, were a clade of large, flightless Australian birds of the Oligocene through Pleistocene Epochs. All are now extinct. They were long classified in Struthioniform ...

: mihirungs

Anseriformes Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which in ...

Worldwide; 150 species * Anhimidae: screamers * Anseranatidae: magpie-goose * Anatidae: ducks, geese, and

swan Swans are birds of the family (biology), family Anatidae within the genus ''Cygnus''. The swans' closest relatives include the goose, geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae where they form t ...

Mirandornithes Mirandornithes () is a clade that consists of flamingos and grebes. Many scholars use the term Phoenicopterimorphae for the superorder containing flamingoes and grebes. Determining the relationships of both groups has been problematic. Flamingos ...

Podicipediformes

Worldwide; 19 species * Podicipedidae: grebes

Phoenicopteriformes

Worldwide; 6 species * †

Palaelodidae Palaelodidae is a family of extinct birds in the group Phoenicopteriformes, which today is represented only by the flamingos. They have been described as "swimming flamingos." They can be considered evolutionarily, and ecologically, intermediate ...

: swimming flamingos * Phoenicopteridae: flamingos

Columbimorphae Columbimorphae is a clade discovered by genome analysis that includes birds of the orders Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pterocliformes Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae , a family (biology), family of sixteen species of bird ...

Columbiformes

Worldwide; 300 species * Columbidae: pigeons and doves

Pterocliformes

Africa, Europe, Asia; 16 species *

Pteroclidae Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae , a family of sixteen species of bird, members of the order Pterocliformes . They are traditionally placed in two genera. The two central Asian species are classified as '' Syrrhaptes'' and the other ...

: sandgrouse

Mesitornithiformes

Madagascar; 3 species * Mesitornithidae: mesites

Cypselomorphae Strisores ( ) is a clade of birds that includes the living families and orders Caprimulgidae (nightjars, nighthawks and allies), Nyctibiidae (potoos), Steatornithidae (oilbirds), Podargidae ( frogmouths), Apodiformes (swifts and hummingbird ...

Caprimulgiformes

Worldwide; 97 species * Caprimulgidae: nightjars

Steatornithiformes

South America; 1 species * Steatornithidae: oilbird

Nyctibiiformes

Americas; 7 species * Nyctibiidae: potoos

Podargiformes

Asia and Australasia; 14 species * Podargidae: frogmouths

Aegotheliformes

Australasia; 10 species * Aegothelidae: owlet-nightjars

Apodiformes

Worldwide; 478 species * Hemiprocnidae: treeswifts * Apodidae: swifts * Trochilidae: hummingbirds

Otidimorphae

Cuculiformes

Worldwide; 150 species * Cuculidae: cuckoos and relatives

Musophagiformes

Africa; 23 species * Musophagidae: turacos and relatives

Otidiformes

Africa and Eurasia; 27 species * Otididae: bustards

Gruae Gruae is a clade of birds that contains the order Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) and Gruimorphae (shorebirds and rails) identified in 2014 by genome analysis.Jarvis, E.D. ''et al''. (2014Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of ...

Opisthocomiformes

South America; 1 species *

Opisthocomidae Opisthocomidae is a family of birds, the only named family within the order Opisthocomiformes. The only living representative is the hoatzin (''Opisthocomus hoazin'') which lives in the Amazon and the Orinoco delta in South America. Several fossi ...

: hoatzin

Gruiformes The Gruiformes are an order (biology), order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird family (biology), families, with a widespread geographical diversity. Gruiform means "crane-like". Traditionally, a number of wading and t ...

Worldwide; 164 species * Grui: cranes and allies ** Gruidae: cranes ** Aramidae: limpkin ** Psophiidae: trumpeters * Ralli: rails and allies ** † Aptornithidae: adzebills **

Heliornithidae The Heliornithidae are a small family of tropical birds with webbed lobes on their feet like those of grebes and coots. The family overall are known as finfoots, although one species is known as a sungrebe. The family is composed of three speci ...

: finfoots ** Sarothruridae: flufftails ** Rallidae: rails and relatives

Charadriiformes

Worldwide; 350 species * Charadrii ** Chionida: thick-knees and allies ***

Burhinidae The stone-curlews, also known as dikkops or thick-knees, consist of 10 species within the family Burhinidae, and are found throughout the tropical and temperate parts of the world, with two or more species occurring in some areas of Africa, Asia, ...

: thick-knees and relatives *** Chionididae: sheathbills ***

Pluvianellidae The Magellanic plover (''Pluvianellus socialis'') is a rare wader found only in southernmost South America. Taxonomy It was long placed in with the other plovers in the family Charadriidae; however, behavioural evidence suggested they were disti ...

: Magellanic plover ** Charadriida: plover-like waders *** Pluvialidae: golden plovers ***

Ibidorhynchidae The ibisbill (''Ibidorhyncha struthersii'') is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Ibidorhynchidae. It is grey with a white belly, red legs and long down-curved bill, and a black face and black breas ...

: ibisbill *** Haematopodidae: oystercatchers *** Recurvirostridae: avocets and

stilt Stilt is a common name for several species of birds in the family Recurvirostridae, which also includes those known as avocets. They are found in brackish or saline wetlands in warm or hot climates. They have extremely long legs, hence the grou ...

s *** Charadriidae: plovers and lapwings * Scolopaci ** Jacanida: jacana-like waders ***

Rostratulidae The Rostratulidae, commonly known as the painted-snipes, are a family of wading birds that consists of two genera: ''Rostratula'' and '' Nycticryphes''. Description The painted-snipes are short-legged, long-billed birds similar in shape to the t ...

: painted snipes *** Pluvianidae: Egyptian plover ***

Jacanidae The jacanas (sometimes referred to as Jesus birds or lily trotters) are a group of tropical waders in the family Jacanidae. They are found in the tropical regions around the world. They are noted for their elongated toes and toenails that allow ...

: jacanas ***

Thinocoridae The seedsnipes are a small family, Thinocoridae, of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a herbivorous diet. The family is divided into two genera, ''Attagis'' and ''Thinocorus'', each containing two species. The family has a South Am ...

: seedsnipes *** Pedionomus torquatus, South Australia 2

Pedionomidae The plains-wanderer (''Pedionomus torquatus'') is a bird, the only representative of family Pedionomidae and genus ''Pedionomus''. It is endemic to Australia. The majority of the remaining population is found in the Riverina region of New Sou ...

: plains-wanderer ** Scolopacida ***

Scolopacidae Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders. They include many species called sandpipers, as well as those called by names such as curlew and snipe. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil. ...

: sandpipers and relatives *

Lari Lari may refer to: Currency * Georgian lari, the currency of Georgia * Maldivian laari, or lari, a coin denomination of the rufiyaa of the Maldives Places *Lari Constituency, an electoral constituency in Kenya * Lari, Ardabil, or Lahrud, a ...

** Turnicida *** Turnicidae: buttonquail ** Larida: gulls and allies *** Glareolidae: coursers and pratincoles ***

Dromadidae The crab-plover or crab plover (''Dromas ardeola)'' is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Dromadidae. Its relationship within the Charadriiformes is unclear, some have considered it to be closely ...

: crab-plover *** Stercorariidae: skuas and jaegers *** Alcidae: auks and puffins *** Laridae: gulls,

skimmer Skimmer may refer to: Animals *Skimmer (bird), a common name for birds in the genus ''Rynchops'' *Skimmer (dragonfly), a common name for dragonflies in the family Libellulidae *Water strider or skimmer, a common name for insects in the family Ge ...

s and terns

Phaethontimorphae Eurypygimorphae or Phaethontimorphae is a clade of birds that contains the orders Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) and Eurypygiformes (kagu and sunbittern) recovered by genome analysis. The relationship was first identified in 2013 based on their ...

Eurypygiformes

Neotropics and New Caledonia; 2 species * Rhynochetidae: kagu * Sunbittern (Eurypyga helias)

Eurypygidae: sunbittern

Phaethontiformes

Oceanic; 3 species * Phaethontidae: tropicbirds

Aequornithes Aequornithes (, from Latin ''aequor'', expanse of water + Greek ''ornithes'', birds), or core water birds are defined as "the least inclusive clade containing Gaviidae and Phalacrocoracidae". The monophyly of the group is currently supported b ...

Gaviiformes Gaviiformes is an order of aquatic birds containing the loons or divers and their closest extinct relatives. Modern gaviiformes are found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia (Europe, Asia and debatably Africa), though prehistori ...

North America, Eurasia; 5 species * Gaviidae: loons

Sphenisciformes

Antarctic and southern waters; 17 species * Spheniscidae: penguins

Procellariiformes

Pan-oceanic; 120 species * Diomedeidae: albatrosses *

Oceanitidae Austral storm petrels, or southern storm petrels, are seabirds in the family Oceanitidae, part of the order Procellariiformes. These smallest of seabirds feed on planktonic crustaceans and small fish picked from the surface, typically while hove ...

: austral storm petrels * Hydrobatidae: northern storm petrels * Procellariidae: petrels and relatives

Ciconiiformes

Worldwide; 19 species White Stork (Ciconia ciconia) (5)

* Ciconiidae: storks

Suliformes

Worldwide; 59 species * Fregatae ** Fregatidae: frigatebirds * Sulae ** Sulidae: boobies and gannets ** Anhingidae: darters ** Phalacrocoracidae: cormorants and shags

Pelecaniformes

A hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) about to eat a fish

Worldwide; 108 species * Threskiornithes ** Threskiornithidae: ibises and

spoonbill Spoonbills are a genus, ''Platalea'', of large, long-legged wading birds. The spoonbills have a global distribution, being found on every continent except Antarctica. The genus name ''Platalea'' derives from Ancient Greek and means "broad", refe ...

s * Pelecani **

Scopidae ''Scopus'' is a genus of wading birds containing the hamerkop ''(Scopus umbretta)'' and its extinct Pliocene relative, ''Scopus xenopus''. This genus is the sole representative of the family Scopidae. Taxonomy Hamerkops were traditionally includ ...

: hamerkop **

Balaenicipitidae Balaenicipitidae is a family of birds in the order Pelecaniformes, although it was traditionally placed in Ciconiiformes. The shoebill is the sole extant species and its closest relative is the hamerkop (''Scopus umbretta''), which belongs to ano ...

: shoebill ** Pelecanidae: pelicans * Ardeae ** Ardeidae: herons and relatives

Afroaves Afroaves is a clade of birds, consisting of the kingfishers and kin (Coraciiformes), woodpeckers and kin (Piciformes), hornbills and kin (Bucerotiformes), trogons (Trogoniformes), cuckoo roller ( Leptosomiformes), mousebirds ( Coliiformes), owls ...

Accipitriformes

Worldwide; 260 species * Cathartae **

Cathartidae The New World vulture or condor family, Cathartidae, contains seven extant species in five genera. It includes five extant vultures and two extant condors found in warm and temperate areas of the Americas. The "New World" vultures were widespread ...

: New World vultures * Accipitres ** Sagittariidae: secretarybird **

Pandionidae ''Pandion'' is a genus of birds of prey, known as ospreys, the only genus of family Pandionidae. Most taxonomic treatments have regarded this genus as describing a single extant species, separated to subspecies or races, while some treatments rec ...

: osprey ** Accipitridae: hawks, eagles, buzzards, harriers, kites and Old World vultures

Strigiformes

Worldwide; 250 species * Tytonidae: barn owls * Strigidae: true owls

Coliiformes

Sub-Saharan Africa; 6 species * Coliidae: mousebirds

Leptosomiformes

Madagascar; 1 species * Leptosomidae: cuckoo-roller

Trogoniformes

Sub-Saharan Africa, Americas, Asia; 35 species *

Trogonidae The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes which contains only one family, the Trogonidae. The family Trogonidae contains 46 species in seven genera. The fossil record of the trogons dates back 49 million years to the Early E ...

: trogons and

quetzal Quetzals () are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family. They are found in forests, especially in humid highlands, with the five species from the genus ''Pharomachrus'' being exclusively Neotropical, while a single species, the eared quet ...

Bucerotiformes

Old World, New Guinea; 64 species * Buceroidea ** Bucerotidae: hornbills * Upupoidea ** Upupidae: hoopoe **

Phoeniculidae The wood hoopoes or scimitarbills are a small African family, Phoeniculidae, of near passerine birds. They live south of the Sahara Desert and are not migratory. While the family is now restricted to Sub-Saharan Africa, fossil evidence shows th ...

: woodhoopoes

Coraciiformes

Worldwide; 144 species * Meropi **

Meropidae The bee-eaters are a group of non-passerine birds in the family Meropidae, containing three genera and thirty species. Most species are found in Africa and Asia, with a few in southern Europe, Australia, and New Guinea. They are characterised by ...

: bee-eaters * Coracii ** Coraciidae: rollers ** Brachypteraciidae: ground rollers * Coracii ** Todidae: todies ** Momotidae: motmots ** Alcedinidae: kingfishers Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) in Hyderabad W IMG 8523

Common Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) in Hyderabad W IMG 8523

Piciformes

Worldwide except Australasia; 400 species * Galbuli **

Galbulidae The jacamars are a family, Galbulidae, of near passerine birds from tropical South and Central America, extending up to Mexico. The family contains five genera and 18 species. The family is closely related to the puffbirds, another Neotropical ...

: jacamars ** Bucconidae: puffbirds * Pici ** Lybiidae: African barbets **

Megalaimidae The Asian barbets are a family of bird species, the Megalaimidae, comprising two genera with 35 species native to the forests of the Indomalayan realm from Tibet to Indonesia. They were once clubbed with all barbets in the family Capitonidae bu ...

: Asian barbets ** Ramphastidae: toucans **

Semnornithidae The toucan-barbets are the small bird genus ''Semnornis''. This was often included in the paraphyletic barbets but recently usually considered a distinct family Semnornithidae; alternatively, all barbets might be moved to the toucan family Ram ...

: toucan barbets **

Capitonidae New World barbets are near passerine birds from the family Capitonidae of the order Piciformes, which inhabit humid forests in Central and South America. They are closely related to the toucans. The New World barbets are plump birds, with short ...

: American barbets **

Picidae Woodpeckers are part of the bird family Picidae, which also includes the piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers. Members of this family are found worldwide, except for Australia, New Guinea, New Zealand, Madagascar, and the extreme polar regions. M ...

: woodpeckers ** Indicatoridae: honeyguides

Australaves Australaves is a recently defined clade of birds, consisting of the Eufalconimorphae (passerines, parrots and falcons) as well as the Cariamiformes (including seriemas and the extinct "terror birds").Prum, R.O. ''et al''. (2015A comprehensive ph ...

Cariamiformes Cariamiformes (or Cariamae) is an order of primarily flightless birds that has existed for over 60 million years. The group includes the family Cariamidae (seriemas) and the extinct families Phorusrhacidae, Bathornithidae, Idiornithidae and Ame ...

South America; 2 species * Cariamidae: seriemas

Falconiformes

Worldwide; 60 species *

Falconidae The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae (representing all extant species in the order Falconiformes). The family is divided into three subfamilies, Herpetotherinae, which inclu ...

: falcons and relatives

Psittaciformes

Pan-tropical, southern temperate zones; 330 species * Strigopoidea ** Strigopidae: kakapo **

Nestoridae The New Zealand parrot family, Strigopidae,Nestoridae and Strigopidae are described in the same article, Bonaparte, C.L. (1849) ''Conspectus Systematis Ornithologiae''. Therefore, under rules of the ICZN, the first reviser determines priority, w ...

: kea and kakas * Cacatuoidea ** Cacatuidae: cockatoos and cockatiel * Psittacoidea ** Psittacidae: African and American parrots **

Psittaculidae Psittaculidae is a family containing Old World parrots. It consists of five subfamilies: Agapornithinae, Loriinae, Platycercinae, Psittacellinae and Psittaculinae. This family has been accepted into ''The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World' ...

: Australasian parrots **

Psittrichasiidae Psittrichasiidae is a family of birds belonging to the superfamily of the true parrots (Psittacoidea).Leo Joseph, Alicia Toon, Erin E. Schirtzinger, Timothy F. Wright, Richard Schodde. 2012. A revised nomenclature and classification for family-gr ...

: Pesquet's parrot, vasa parrots

Passeriformes

Worldwide; 6,500 species * Acanthisitti ** Acanthisittidae: New Zealand wrens *

Tyranni The Tyranni (suboscines) are a suborder of passerine birds that includes more than 1,000 species, the large majority of which are South American. It is named after the type genus '' Tyrannus''. These have a different anatomy of the syrinx mus ...

: suboscines ** Eurylaimides: Old World suboscines *** Sapayoidae: sapayoa *** Calyptomenidae: Calyptomenid broadbills *** Pittidae: pittas ***

Eurylaimidae The Eurylaimidae are a family of suboscine passerine birds that occur from the eastern Himalayas to Indonesia and the Philippines. The family previously included the sapayoa from the Neotropics, the asities from Madagascar, and the Calyptomeni ...

: broadbills ***

Philepittidae The asities are a family of birds, Philepittidae, that are endemic to Madagascar. The asities consist of four species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biod ...

: asities ** Tyrannides: New World suboscines ***

Tyrannida Tyrannides (New World suboscines) is a clade of passerine birds that are endemic of America.Ohlson, J.I. ''et al''. (2013Phylogeny and classification of the New World suboscines (Aves, Passeriformes) ''Zootaxa'', 3613:1-35. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa. ...

: bronchophones **** Pipridae: manakins **** Cotingidae: cotingas **** Oxyruncidae: sharpbills ****

Onychorhynchidae The royal flycatchers are a genus, ''Onychorhynchus'', of passerine birds in the family Tityridae. Names The specific epithet of the type species, ''coronatus'', and the common name of all the species in this genus, royal flycatcher, refer to ...

: royal flycatchers and allies **** Tityridae:

becard A becard is a bird of the genus ''Pachyramphus'' in the family Tityridae. Taxonomy The genus ''Pachyramphus'' was introduced in 1839 by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in the volume on birds by John Gould that formed part of Charles Dar ...

s and

tityra The tityras are passerine birds in the genus ''Tityra'' of the family Tityridae. They are found from southern Mexico, through Central America, to northern and central South America, including Trinidad. These are medium-sized birds, typically ar ...

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Pipritidae ''Piprites'' is a genus of bird traditionally placed in the family Tyrannidae. Species The genus ''Piprites'' contains 3 species: References

Piprites, Bird genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Pipridae-stub ...

: pipriteses ****

Platyrinchidae The spadebills are a ''genus'', ''Platyrinchus'', of Central and South American passerine birds in the tyrant flycatcher family Tyrannidae. They have broad, flat, triangular bills. The genus was erected by the French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan De ...

: spadebills ****

Tachurididae The many-colored rush tyrant or many-coloured rush tyrant (''Tachuris rubrigastra'') is a small passerine bird of South America belonging to the tyrant flycatcher family, Tyrannidae. It is the only member of the genus ''Tachuris'' and is sometim ...

: many-colored rush tyrants ****

Rhynchocyclidae The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) are a Family (biology), family of passerine birds which occur throughout North America, North and South America. They are considered the largest family of birds known to exist in the world, with more than 400 ...

: mionectine flycatchers **** Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers ***

Furnariida Tyrannides (New World suboscines) is a clade of passerine birds that are endemic of America.Ohlson, J.I. ''et al''. (2013Phylogeny and classification of the New World suboscines (Aves, Passeriformes) ''Zootaxa'', 3613:1-35. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa. ...

: tracheophones **** Melanopareiidae: crescent-chests **** Conopophagidae: gnateaters **** Thamnophilidae: antbirds **** Grallariidae: antpittas **** Rhinocryptidae tapaculos **** Formicariidae: ground antbirds **** Furnariidae: ovenbirds * Passeri: oscines ** Menurides *** Atrichornithidae: scrub-birds *** Menuridae: lyrebirds ** Climacterides *** Ptilonorhynchidae: bowerbirds *** Climacteridae: Australasian treecreepers ** Meliphagides *** Maluridae: Australasian wrens ***

Dasyornithidae The bristlebirds are a family of passerine birds, Dasyornithidae. There are three species in one genus, ''Dasyornis''. The family is endemic to the south-east coast and south-west corner of Australia.Del Hoyo, J.; Elliot, A. & Christie D. (edito ...

: bristlebirds *** Pardalotidae: pardalotes *** Acanthizidae: gerygones, thornbills and allies *** Meliphagidae: honeyeaters and relatives ** Orthonychides ***

Pomatostomidae The Pomatostomidae (Australo-Papuan or Australasian babblers, also known as pseudo-babblers) are small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea. For many years, the Australo-Papuan babblers were classified, rather uncertainly, with t ...

: Australasian babblers ***

Orthonychidae The logrunners (''Orthonyx'') are a clade of birds which comprises three species of passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Some authorities consider the Australian family Cinclosomatidae to be part of the Orthonychidae. The three ...

: logrunners **

Corvides Corvides is a clade of birds in the order of Passeriformes. Previously referred to as the core Corvoidea,Jønsson K.A., Fabre P.-H., Kennedy J.D., Holt B.G., Borregaard M.K., Rahbek C., Fjeldså J. (2016A supermatrix phylogeny of corvoid passeri ...

*** Cinclosomatoidea **** Cinclosomatidae: quail-thrushes and jewel-babblers *** Campephagoidea **** Campephagidae: cuckoo-shrikes *** Mohouoidea **** Mohouidae: whitehead and allies *** Neosittoidea **** Neosittidae: sittellas *** Orioloidea ****

Eulacestomidae The wattled ploughbill (''Eulacestoma nigropectus'') is a small bird from New Guinea. It is the only member of the monotypic genus ''Eulacestoma'' and family Eulacestomatidae. It is also known as the wattled shrike-tit or ploughshare tit. Taxono ...

: wattled ploughbills **** Psophodidae: whipbirds and quail-thrushes ****

Oreoicidae Oreoicidae is a newly recognized family (biology), family of small insectivorous songbirds from New Guinea and Australia, commonly known as the Australo-Papuan bellbirds. The family contains three genera, each containing a single species: ''Alead ...

: Australo-Papuan bellbirds ****

Falcunculidae The crested shriketit (''Falcunculus frontatus'') or Australian shriketit, is a bird endemic to Australia where it inhabits open eucalypt forest and woodland. It is the only species contained within both the family Falcunculidae and the genus ''F ...

: crested shriketits **** Paramythiidae: painted berrypeckers **** Pteruthiidae: shrike-babblers **** Vireonidae: vireos and relatives ****

Pachycephalidae The Pachycephalidae are a family of bird species that includes the whistlers, shrikethrushes, and three of the pitohuis, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds. The family includes 64 species that are separated into f ...

: whistlers and relatives (Colluricinclidae) **** Oriolidae: Old World orioles *** Malaconotoidea ****

Machaerirhynchidae ''Machaerirhynchus'' is a genus of passerine birds with affinities to woodswallows and butcherbirds. The two species are known as boatbills. The genus is distributed across New Guinea and northern Queensland. The species are: * Black-breasted ...

: boatbills ****

Artamidae Artamidae is a family of passerine birds found in Australia, the Indo-Pacific region, and Southern Asia. It includes 24 extant species in six genera and three subfamilies: Peltopsinae (with one genus, ''Peltops''), Artaminae (with one genus conta ...

: woodswallows and

butcherbird Butcherbirds are songbirds closely related to the Australian magpie. Most are found in the genus '' Cracticus'', but the black butcherbird is placed in the monotypic genus '' Melloria''. They are native to Australasia. Taxonomy Together with th ...

s **** Rhagologidae: mottled berryhunter **** Aegithinidae: ioras ****

Pityriaseidae The Bornean bristlehead (''Pityriasis gymnocephala''), also variously known as the bristled shrike, bald-headed crow or the bald-headed wood-shrike, is the only member of the passerine family (biology), family Pityriasidae and genus ''Pityriasi ...

: bristlehead **** Malaconotidae: bushshrikes and relatives ****

Platysteiridae Platysteiridae is a family of small, stout passerine birds of the African tropics. The family contains the wattle-eyes, batises and shrike-flycatchers. They were previously classed as a subfamily of the Old World flycatchers, Muscicapidae. These ...

: wattle-eyes and

batis Batis may refer to: * ''Batis'' (plant), a genus of flowering, salt-tolerant plants * ''Batis'' (bird), a genus of birds in the wattle-eye family * Batis (commander), an ancient military commander * Batis (lens), a series of full-frame Zeiss l ...

es **** Vangidae: vangas (Tephrodornithidae;

Prionopidae Helmetshrikes are a family uniting some smallish to mid-sized songbird species. They were included with the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, later on split between several presumably closely related groups such as bushshrikes ( Malaconotidae ...

) *** Corvoidea ****

Rhipiduridae The family Rhipiduridae are small insectivorous birds of Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent that includes the fantails and silktails. Taxonomy and systematics There are four genera classified within the family: * Subfamily R ...

: fantails **** Lamproliidae: silktail, drongo fantail **** Dicruridae: drongos ****

Ifritidae The blue-capped ifrit (''Ifrita kowaldi''), also known as the blue-capped ifrita, is a small and insectivorous passerine species currently placed in the monotypic family, Ifritidae. Previously, the ifrit has been placed in a plethora of families ...

: blue-capped ifrits ****

Melampittidae The melampittas are a family, Melampittidae, of New Guinean birds containing two enigmatic species. The two species are found in two genera, the greater melampitta in the genus ''Megalampitta'' and the lesser melampitta in the genus ''Melampitta ...

: melampittas **** Corcoracidae: Australian mudnesters **** Paradisaeidae: birds-of-paradise ****

Monarchidae The monarchs (family Monarchidae) comprise a family of over 100 passerine birds which includes shrikebills, paradise flycatchers, and magpie-larks. Monarchids are small insectivorous songbirds with long tails. They inhabit forest or woodland a ...

: monarch flycatchers **** Laniidae: shrikes **** Corvidae:

jay A jay is a member of a number of species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the Crow family (biology), family, Corvidae. The evolutionary relationships between the jays and the magpies are rather complex. For examp ...

s and crows **

Passerides A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes). Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin ''oscen'', "songbird". The Passeriformes contains 5000 ...

*** Melanocharitida **** Melanocharitidae: berrypeckers *** Cnemophilida **** Cnemophilidae: satinbirds *** Petroicida ****

Petroicidae The bird family Petroicidae includes 51 species in 19 genera. All are endemic to Australasia: New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand and numerous Pacific Islands as far east as Samoa. For want of an accurate common name, the family is often called th ...

: Australasian robins ****

Notiomystidae The stitchbird or hihi (''Notiomystis cincta'') is a honeyeater-like bird endemic to the North Island and adjacent offshore islands of New Zealand. Its evolutionary relationships have long puzzled ornithologists, but it is now classed as th ...

: stitchbird ****

Callaeidae Callaeidae (sometimes Callaeatidae) is a family of passerine birds endemic to New Zealand. It contains three genera, with five species in the family. One species, the huia, became extinct early in the 20th century, while the South Island kokako ...

: wattlebirds *** Eupetida **** Picathartidae: rockfowl ****

Chaetopidae The rockjumpers are medium-sized insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus ''Chaetops'', which constitutes the entire family Chaetopidae. The two species, the Cape rockjumper, ''Chaetops frenatus'', and the Drakensberg rockjumper, ''Chaetop ...

: rock-jumpers ****

Eupetidae The rail-babbler or Malaysian rail-babbler (''Eupetes macrocerus'') is a strange, rail-like, brown and pied ground-living bird. It is the only species in the genus ''Eupetes'' and family Eupetidae. It lives on the floor of primary forests in the ...

: rail-babbler *** Sylviida **** Paroidea *****

Stenostiridae Stenostiridae, or the fairy flycatchers, are a family of small passerine birds proposed as a result of recent discoveries in molecular systematics.Beresford ''et al.'' (2005) They are also referred to as stenostirid warblers. Taxonomy and system ...

: fairy warblers ***** Hyliotidae: hyliotas ***** Remizidae: penduline tits ***** Paridae: chickadees and true tits **** Alaudoidea *****

Nicatoridae The nicators are a genus, ''Nicator'', and family, Nicatoridae, of songbirds endemic to Africa. The genus and family contain three species. Taxonomy The systematic affinities of the genus have been a long-standing mystery. The group was origina ...

: nicators ***** Panuridae: bearded reedling ***** Alaudidae: larks **** Macrosphenidae: African warblers **** Locustelloidea ***** Cisticolidae: cisticolas and relatives ***** Acrocephalidae: marsh warblers ***** Pnoepygidae: pygmy wren-babblers *****

Locustellidae Locustellidae is a newly recognized family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" family. It contains the grass warblers, grassbirds, and the ''Bradypterus'' "bush warblers". These bird ...

: grass warblers *****

Donacobiidae The black-capped donacobius (''Donacobius atricapilla'') is a conspicuous, vocal South American bird. It is found in tropical swamps and wetlands in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, a ...

: donacobius *****

Bernieridae The Tetrakas and allies are a newly validated family of songbirds. They were formally named Bernieridae in 2010. The family currently consists of eleven species (in eight genera) of small forest birds. These birds are all endemic to Madagascar. ...

: Malagasy warblers **** Hirundinidae: swallows and martins **** Pycnonotidae: bulbuls **** Aegithaloidea ***** Phylloscopidae: leaf warblers *****

Cettiidae Cettiidae is a newly validated family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" assemblage. It contains the typical bush warblers (''Cettia'') and their relatives. As a common name, cetti ...

: bush warblers (Erythrocercidae; Scotocercidae) ***** Hyliidae: hylias ***** Aegithalidae: bushtits **** Sylvioidea ***** Sylviidae: true warblers ***** Paradoxornithidae: parrotbills, fulvettas ***** Zosteropidae: white-eyes ***** Timaliidae: babblers and relatives *****

Pellorneidae The jungle babblers are a family, Pellorneidae, of mostly Old World passerine birds belonging to the superfamily Sylvioidea. They are quite diverse in size and coloration, and usually characterised by soft, fluffy plumage and a tail on average th ...

: fulvettas, ground babblers ***** Leiothrichidae: laughing thrushes ***

Muscicapida Muscicapida is a clade of birds in the order Passeriformes. Oliveros, C.H. ''et al''. (2019) suggested a Gondwana, gondwanan migration of this lineage from Australia to Eurasia. Systematics The parvorder contains the following 19 families:H Kuh ...

**** Reguloidea *****

Regulidae A kinglet is a small bird in the family Regulidae. Species in this family were formerly classified with the Old World warblers. "Regulidae" is derived from the Latin word ''regulus'' for "petty king" or prince, and refers to the coloured crowns ...

: kinglets **** Bombycilloidea *****

Elachuridae The spotted elachura or spotted wren-babbler (''Elachura formosa'') is a species of passerine bird found in the forests of the eastern Himalayas and Southeast Asia. In the past it was included in the babbler genus '' Spelaeornis'' as ''S. formos ...

: spotted wren-babblers ***** † Mohoidae: Hawaiian honeyeaters ***** Ptiliogonatidae: silky-flycatchers ***** Bombycillidae: waxwings ***** Dulidae: palmchat ***** Hypocoliidae: hypocolius **** Certhioidea ***** Tichodromidae: wallcreeper *****

Sittidae The nuthatches () constitute a genus, ''Sitta'', of small passerine birds belonging to the family Sittidae. Characterised by large heads, short tails, and powerful bills and feet, nuthatches advertise their territory using loud, simple songs. Mo ...

: nuthatches ***** Certhiidae: treecreepers ***** Troglodytidae: wrens ***** Polioptilidae: gnatcatchers **** Muscicapoidea ***** Cinclidae: dippers ***** Turdidae: thrushes and relatives ***** Muscicapidae: flycatchers and relatives *****

Buphagidae The oxpeckers are two species of bird which make up the genus ''Buphagus'', and family (biology), family Buphagidae. The oxpeckers were formerly usually treated as a subfamily, Buphaginae, within the starling family, Sturnidae, but molecular p ...

: oxpeckers ***** Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers ***** Sturnidae: starlings and

myna The myna (; also spelled mynah) is a bird of the starling family (Sturnidae). This is a group of passerine birds which are native to southern Asia, especially India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Several species have been introduced to areas like ...

s ( Rhabdornithidae) *** Passerida ****

Promeropidae The sugarbirds are a small genus, ''Promerops'', and family, Promeropidae, of passerine birds, restricted to southern Africa. In general appearance and habits, they resemble large, long-tailed sunbirds, but are possibly more closely related t ...

: sugarbirds ****

Arcanatoridae Modulatricidae is a small family of passerine birds which are restricted to Africa. These species have been taxonomic enigmas in the past, having been moved between the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae, and Timaliidae ''sensu lato''; they are no ...

: dapplethroat and allies **** Dicaeidae: flowerpeckers **** Nectariniidae: sunbirds **** Irenidae: fairy-bluebirds **** Chloropseidae: leafbirds ****

Peucedramidae The olive warbler (''Peucedramus taeniatus'') is a small passerine bird. It is the only member of the genus ''Peucedramus'' and the family Peucedramidae. This species breeds from southern Arizona and New Mexico, USA, south through Mexico to Nica ...

: olive warbler **** Prunellidae: accentors **** Ploceoidea ***** Urocynchramidae: pink-tailed bunting ***** Ploceidae: weavers and relatives ***** Viduidae: whydahs and indigobirds ***** Estrildidae: weaver finches **** Passerid clade ***** Passeridae: Old World sparrows *****

Motacillidae The wagtails, longclaws, and pipits are a family, Motacillidae, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. Around 70 species occur in five genera. The longclaws are entirely restricted to the Afrotropics, and the wagtails are predominan ...

wagtail Wagtails are a group of passerine birds that form the genus ''Motacilla'' in the family Motacillidae. The forest wagtail belongs to the monotypic genus ''Dendronanthus'' which is closely related to ''Motacilla'' and sometimes included therein. T ...

s and pipits ***** Fringillidae: finches and relatives ***** Calcariidae: longspurs, snow buntings *****

Rhodinocichlidae The rosy thrush-tanager (''Rhodinocichla rosea'') or rose-breasted thrush-tanager is a species of bird in the currently monotypic genus ''Rhodinocichla''. It was formerly assigned to the family Thraupidae and more recently viewed as being of unce ...

: rosy thrush-tanagers ***** Emberizidae: Old World buntings ***** Passerellidae: American sparrows *****

Phaenicophilidae Phaenicophilidae is a family of passerine birds. It consists of three genera and four species, all endemic to Hispaniola, which have been traditionally placed in the families Thraupidae (''Phaenicophilus'') and Parulidae The New World warbl ...

: palm-tanager and allies *****

Icteridae Icterids () or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae (), of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red. The ...

New World blackbird Icterids () or New World blackbirds make up a family, the Icteridae (), of small to medium-sized, often colorful, New World passerine birds. Most species have black as a predominant plumage color, often enlivened by yellow, orange, or red. The ...

s and New World orioles *****

Teretistridae The Cuban warblers are a genus, ''Teretistris'', and family, Teretistridae, of birds endemic to Cuba and its surrounding cays. Until 2002 they were thought to be New World warblers, but DNA studies have shown that they are not closely related to ...

: Cuban warblers ***** Parulidae: wood warblers *****

Mitrospingidae The Mitrospingidae is a family of passerine birds. It consists of three genera and four species. The family is found in South America and southern Central America. The family was identified in 2013, and consists of birds that have been traditiona ...

***** Cardinalidae: cardinals, grosbeaks, and New World buntings ***** Thraupidae: tanagers and relatives (Coerebidae)

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Notopalaeognathae Notopalaeognathae is a clade that contains the order Rheiformes (rheas), the clade Novaeratitae (birds such as the kiwis and the emus), the order Tinamiformes (tinamous) and the extinct order Dinornithiformes (the moas). The exact relationships ...

Apterygiformes Kiwi ( ) are flightless birds endemic to New Zealand of the order Apterygiformes. The five extant species fall into the family Apterygidae () and genus ''Apteryx'' (). Approximately the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest ...

Neognathae Neognathae (; ) is a infraclass of birds, called neognaths, within the class Aves of the clade Archosauria. Neognathae includes the majority of living birds; the exceptions being the tinamous and the flightless ratites, which belong instead to ...

Gastornithiformes Gastornithiformes were an extinct order of giant flightless fowl with fossils found in North America, Eurasia, and possibly Australia. Members of Gastornithidae were long considered to be a part of the order Gruiformes. However, the traditiona ...

Anseriformes Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which in ...

Mirandornithes Mirandornithes () is a clade that consists of flamingos and grebes. Many scholars use the term Phoenicopterimorphae for the superorder containing flamingoes and grebes. Determining the relationships of both groups has been problematic. Flamingos ...

Columbimorphae Columbimorphae is a clade discovered by genome analysis that includes birds of the orders Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pterocliformes Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae , a family (biology), family of sixteen species of bird ...

Cypselomorphae Strisores ( ) is a clade of birds that includes the living families and orders Caprimulgidae (nightjars, nighthawks and allies), Nyctibiidae (potoos), Steatornithidae (oilbirds), Podargidae ( frogmouths), Apodiformes (swifts and hummingbird ...

Gruae Gruae is a clade of birds that contains the order Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) and Gruimorphae (shorebirds and rails) identified in 2014 by genome analysis.Jarvis, E.D. ''et al''. (2014Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of ...

Gruiformes The Gruiformes are an order (biology), order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird family (biology), families, with a widespread geographical diversity. Gruiform means "crane-like". Traditionally, a number of wading and t ...

Phaethontimorphae Eurypygimorphae or Phaethontimorphae is a clade of birds that contains the orders Phaethontiformes (tropicbirds) and Eurypygiformes (kagu and sunbittern) recovered by genome analysis. The relationship was first identified in 2013 based on their ...

Aequornithes Aequornithes (, from Latin ''aequor'', expanse of water + Greek ''ornithes'', birds), or core water birds are defined as "the least inclusive clade containing Gaviidae and Phalacrocoracidae". The monophyly of the group is currently supported b ...

Gaviiformes Gaviiformes is an order of aquatic birds containing the loons or divers and their closest extinct relatives. Modern gaviiformes are found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia (Europe, Asia and debatably Africa), though prehistori ...

Afroaves Afroaves is a clade of birds, consisting of the kingfishers and kin (Coraciiformes), woodpeckers and kin (Piciformes), hornbills and kin (Bucerotiformes), trogons (Trogoniformes), cuckoo roller ( Leptosomiformes), mousebirds ( Coliiformes), owls ...

Australaves Australaves is a recently defined clade of birds, consisting of the Eufalconimorphae (passerines, parrots and falcons) as well as the Cariamiformes (including seriemas and the extinct "terror birds").Prum, R.O. ''et al''. (2015A comprehensive ph ...

Cariamiformes Cariamiformes (or Cariamae) is an order of primarily flightless birds that has existed for over 60 million years. The group includes the family Cariamidae (seriemas) and the extinct families Phorusrhacidae, Bathornithidae, Idiornithidae and Ame ...

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