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bird
📅 Updated:2026-08-31
🕒 Created:2009-11-04
🆔 ID:888
Description
"Birds":[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird][sup](Aves)[/sup] are a extant class of warm-blooded "vertebrate":[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebrate] animals characterized by bipedalism, wings, feathers and a toothless beak. All birds also have young that hatch from layed eggs.
Birds are known to be the newest taxonomic class of animals who descend from a specific group of land dwelling theropod dinosaurs known as maniraptora.
Birds are known to be the newest taxonomic class of animals who descend from a specific group of land dwelling theropod dinosaurs known as maniraptora.
- See avian for fictional and mythological bird-like species.
Contemporary bird species groups: ^
- "Bird taxonomy tree map":[https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/01/Bird-family-tree.png?strip=all&quality=85]
- "Passerine order division map":[https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.061/asset/7fffb25e-61d4-45d8-bd95-eabc350c849a/main.assets/gr1_lrg.jpg]
- Accipitriform -> hawk, secretary bird, vulture, etc.
- Aegotheliform -> owlet-nightjar
- Anseriform -> duck, screamer, swan, etc.
- Apodiform -> hummingbird, true swift, treeswift
- Bucerotiform -> hoopoe, hornbill
- Caprimulgiform -> nightjar
- Cariamiform -> seriema
- Charadrii -> plover, stone-curlew
- Ciconiiform -> stork
- Coliiform -> mousebird
- Columbiform -> dove, pigeon
- Coraciiform -> kingfisher, roller, tody, etc.
- Cuculiform -> true cuckoo, malkoha, roadrunner, etc.
- Eurypygiform -> kagu, sunbittern
- Falconid -> caracara, falcon, falconet
- Galbuli -> jacamar, nunlet, puffbird
- Galliform -> chicken, Pheasant, turkey, etc.
- Gaviiform -> loon
- Gruiform -> crane, rail, trumpeter, etc.
- Leptosomid -> courol
- Lari -> auk, gull, skua, etc.
- Mesitornithiform -> mesite
- Musophagiform -> go-away-bird, turaco
- Nyctibiiform -> potoo
- Opisthocomiform -> hoatzin
- Otidiform -> bustard, florican, korhaan, etc.
- Passeriform [sup](passerine)[/sup]
- Acanthisitti -> riffleman, xenicus
- Passeri [sup](oscine)[/sup]
- Tyranni [sup](suboscine)[/sup]
- Eurylaimid -> asity, broadbill, pitta, etc.
- Tyrannides [sup](new world suboscine)[/sup]
- Pelecaniform -> heron, ibis, pelican, etc.
- Phaethontiform -> tropicbird
- Phoenicopteriform -> flamingo
- Pici -> barbet, toucan, woodpecker, etc.
- Podargiform -> frogmouth
- Podicipediform -> grebe
- Procellariiform -> albatross, petrel, shearwater, etc.
- Psittaciform -> cockatoo, true parrot, new zealand parrot, etc.
- Pterocliform -> sandgrouse
- Ratite -> cassowary, emu, ostrich, etc.
- Scolopaci -> jacana, sandpiper, snipe, etc.
- Sphenisciform -> penguin
- Steatornithiform -> oilbird
- Strigiform -> barn owl, bay owl, true owl
- Suliform -> booby, cormorant, gannet, etc.
- Trogoniform -> quetzal, trogon
Major animal classes (or phylums): ^
- "taxonomic tree of life":[https://evogeneao.s3.amazonaws.com/images/tree_of_life/tree-of-life_2000.png]
- amphibian
- annelid
- aquatic (informal)
- arthropod
- avian (informal)
- bird
- cnidarian
- echinoderm
- fish
- mammal
- mollusk
- platyhelminthes (flatworm)
- porifera (sea sponge)
- reptile
- scalie (informal)
See also: ^
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