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Acanthizidae
The Acanthizidae, also known as the Australasian warblers, are a family of passerine birds which include gerygones, thornbills, and scrubwrens.
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Accentor
The accentors are a genus of birds in the family Prunellidae, which is the only bird family endemic to the Palearctic.
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Accipitridae
The Accipitridae, one of the four families within the order Accipitriformes (the others being Cathartidae, Pandionidae and Sagittariidae), are a family of small to large birds with strongly hooked bills and variable morphology based on diet.
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Accipitriformes
The Accipitriformes are an order that includes most of the diurnal birds of prey: hawks, eagles, vultures, and many others, about 225 species in all.
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Accipitrimorphae
Accipitrimorphae is a clade of birds of prey that include the orders Cathartiformes (New World vultures) and Accipitriformes (diurnal birds of prey such as eagles, hawks, osprey and secretarybird).
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Acrocephalidae
The Acrocephalidae (the reed warblers, marsh- and tree-warblers, or acrocephalid warblers) are a family of oscine passerine birds, in the superfamily Sylvioidea.
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Adzebill
The adzebills, genus Aptornis, were two closely related bird species, the North Island adzebill, Aptornis otidiformis, and the South Island adzebill, Aptornis defossor, of the extinct family Aptornithidae.
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Aegithalidae
The bushtits or long-tailed tits, Aegithalidae, are a family of small, drab passerine birds with moderately long tails.
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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".
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African barbet
The African barbets are birds in the family Lybiidae.
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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 (Leptosomatiformes), mousebirds (Coliiformes), owls (Strigiformes), raptors (Accipitriformes) and New World vultures (Cathartiformes).
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Albatross
Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses).
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American sparrow
American sparrows are a group of mainly New World passerine birds, forming part of the family Passerellidae.
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Anatidae
The Anatidae are the biological family of birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans.
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Anseranatidae
Anseranatidae, the magpie-geese, is a biological family of waterbirds.
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Anseriformes
Anseriformes is an order of birds that comprise about 180 living species in three families: Anhimidae (the screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.
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Antbird
The antbirds are a large passerine bird family, Thamnophilidae, found across subtropical and tropical Central and South America, from Mexico to Argentina.
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Antpitta
Grallariidae is a family of smallish passerine birds of subtropical and tropical Central and South America known as antpittas.
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Apodiformes
Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes contained three living families: the swifts (Apodidae), the treeswifts (Hemiprocnidae), and the hummingbirds (Trochilidae).
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Artamidae
Artamidae is a family of passerine birds found in Australia, the Indo-Pacific region, and Southern Asia.
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Asian barbet
A family of birds comprising the Asian barbets, the Megalaimidae were once clubbed with all barbets in the family Capitonidae but the Old World species have been found to be distinctive and are considered, along with the Lybiidae and Ramphastidae, as sister groups.
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Asity
The asities are a group of birds in the family Eurylaimidae, members of the broadbills.
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Auk
An auk or alcid is a bird of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes.
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Austral storm petrel
Austral storm petrels, or southern storm petrels, are seabirds in the family Oceanitidae, part of the order Procellariiformes.
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Australasian robin
The bird family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera.
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Australasian treecreeper
There are 7 species of Australasian treecreeper in the passerine bird family Climacteridae.
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Australasian wren
The Australasian wrens are a family, Maluridae, of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea.
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Australaves
Australaves is a recently defined clade of birds, consisting of the Eufalconimorphae (passerines, parrots and falcons) as well as the Cariamiformes (including seriamas and the extinct "terror birds").
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Australian mudnester
Struthideidae is a family of passerine birds known as the Australian mudnesters.
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Australo-Papuan babbler
The Pomatostomidae (Australo-Papuan or Australasian babblers, also known as pseudo-babblers) are small to medium-sized birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea.
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Austrodyptornithes
Austrodyptornithes is a clade of birds that include the orders Sphenisciformes (penguins) and Procellariiformes (tube-nosed seabirds).
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Avocet
The four species of avocets are a genus, Recurvirostra, of waders in the same avian family as the stilts.
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Balaenicipitidae
Balaenicipitidae is a family of birds in the Pelecaniformes order, although it was traditionally placed in Ciconiiformes.
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Barn-owl
Barn owls (family Tytonidae) are one of the two families of owls, the other being the true owls or typical owls, Strigidae.
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Batis (bird)
Batis (pronounced BAT-iss) is a genus of passerine birds in the wattle-eye family.
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Bearded reedling
The bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus) is a small, sexually dimorphic reed-bed passerine bird.
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Becard
A becard is a bird of the genus Pachyramphus in the family Tityridae.
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Bee-eater
The bee-eaters are a group of near-passerine birds in the family Meropidae containing three genera and 27 species.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Bird-of-paradise
The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes.
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Black-capped donacobius
The black-capped donacobius (Donacobius atricapilla) is a conspicuous, vocal South American bird.
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Blue-capped ifrit
The blue-capped ifrit (Ifrita kowaldi), also known as the blue-capped ifrita, is a small insectivorous bird endemic to the rainforests of New Guinea.
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Booby
A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the Sulidae family.
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Bornean bristlehead
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 Pityriaseidae and genus Pityriasis.
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Bowerbird
Bowerbirds make up the bird family Ptilonorhynchidae.
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Bristlebird
The bristlebirds are a family, Dasyornithidae, of passerine bird.
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Broadbill
The broadbills are a clade of small passerine birds, Eurylaimidae (named after the type genus Eurylaimus).
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Bucerotiformes
Bucerotiformes is an order that contains the hornbills, hoopoe and wood hoopoes.
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Bulbul
The bulbuls are a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds.
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Bunting (bird)
Buntings are a group of Eurasian and African passerine birds of the family Emberizidae.
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Bushshrike
The bushshrikes are smallish passerine birds.
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Bustard
Bustards, including floricans and korhaans, are large, terrestrial birds living mainly in dry grassland areas and on the steppes of the Old World.
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Butcherbird
Butcherbirds are magpie-like birds, most found in the genus Cracticus, but the black butcherbird is placed in the monotypic genus Melloria.
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Buttonquail
Buttonquail or hemipodes are members of a small family of birds, Turnicidae, which resemble, but are unrelated to, the quails of Phasianidae.
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Calcariidae
Calcariidae is a small family of passerine birds.
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Callaeidae
Callaeidae (sometimes Callaeatidae) is a family of passerine birds endemic to New Zealand.
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Caprimulgiformes
The Caprimulgiformes is an order of birds that includes a number of birds with global distribution (except Antarctica).
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Cardinal (bird)
Cardinals, in the family Cardinalidae, are passerine birds found in North and South America.
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Cariamiformes
Cariamiformes (or Cariamae) is an order of primarily flightless birds that has existed for over 60 million years.
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Carinatae
Carinatae is the group of all birds and their extinct relatives to possess a keel, or "carina", on the underside of the breastbone used to anchor large flight muscles.
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Cassowary
Cassowaries, genus Casuarius, are ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) that are native to the tropical forests of New Guinea (Papua New Guinea and Indonesia), nearby islands, and northeastern Australia.
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Casuariidae
The bird family Casuariidae has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary and the emu.
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Casuariiformes
The Casuariiformes is an order of large flightless bird that has four surviving members: the three species of cassowary, and the only remaining species of emu.
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Cathartiformes
The order Cathartiformes of raptors or birds of prey included the New World vultures and the now extinct Teratornithidae.
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Cavitaves
Cavitaves is a clade that contain the order Leptosomatiformes (trogons) and the clade Eucavitaves (a large assemblage of birds that includes woodpeckers, kingfishers and trogons).
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Cettiidae
Cettiidae is a newly validated family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" assemblage.
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Chachalaca
Chachalacas are galliform birds from the genus Ortalis.
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Charadriidae
The bird family Charadriidae includes the plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, about 64 to 66 species in all.
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Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds.
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Cisticola
Cisticolas (pronounced sis-TIC-olas) are a genus of very small insectivorous birds formerly classified in the Old World warbler family Sylviidae, but now usually considered to be in the separate family Cisticolidae, along with other southern warbler genera.
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Cisticolidae
The Cisticolidae family of small passerine birds is a group of about 160 warblers found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World.
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Clade
A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".
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Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.
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Cockatoo
A cockatoo is a parrot that is any of the 21 species belonging to the bird family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea.
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Columbea
Columbea is a clade suggested by genome analysis that contains Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pteroclididae (sandgrouses), Mesitornithidae (mesites) and Mirandornithes (flamingos and grebes).
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Columbidae
Pigeons and doves constitute the animal family Columbidae and the order Columbiformes, which includes about 42 genera and 310 species.
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Columbimorphae
Columbimorphae is a clade discovered by genome analysis that includes birds of the orders Columbiformes (pigeons and doves), Pteroclidiformes (sandgrouses), and Mesitornithiformes (mesites).
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Common ostrich
The ostrich or common ostrich (Struthio camelus) is either of two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, the only living member(s) of the genus Struthio, which is in the ratite family.
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Coraciiformes
The Coraciiformes are a group of usually colorful birds including the kingfishers, the bee-eaters, the rollers, the motmots, and the todies.
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Cormorant
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags.
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Corvidae
Corvidae is a cosmopolitan family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rooks, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, choughs, and nutcrackers.
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Cotinga
The cotingas are a large family, Cotingidae, of suboscine passerine birds found in Central America and tropical South America.
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Courser
The coursers are a group of birds which together with the pratincoles make up the family Glareolidae.
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Crab-plover
The crab-plover or crab plover (Dromas ardeola) is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Dromadidae.
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Cracidae
The chachalacas, guans and curassows are birds in the family Cracidae.
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Crane (bird)
Cranes are a family, Gruidae, of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes.
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Crescentchest
The crescentchests are a genus, Melanopareia, of birds from South America.
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Crested shriketit
The crested shriketit (Falcunculus frontatus), or Australian shriketit, is a bird endemic to Australia where it inhabits open eucalypt forest and woodland.
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Crow
A Crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly is a synonym for all of Corvus.
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Cuckoo
The cuckoos are a family of birds, Cuculidae, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes.
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Cuckoo roller
The cuckoo roller or courol (Leptosomus discolor)del Hoyo, J. Elliott, A. & Sargatal, J. (2001) is the only bird in the family Leptosomidae, which was previously often placed in the order Coraciiformes but is now placed in its own order Leptosomiformes.
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Cuckooshrike
The cuckooshrikes and allies in the family Campephagidae are small to medium-sized passerine bird species found in the subtropical and tropical Africa, Asia and Australasia.
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Curassow
Curassows are one of the three major groups of cracid birds.
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Darter
The darters or snakebirds are mainly tropical waterbirds in the family Anhingidae having a single genus Anhinga.
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Dipper
Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.
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Dromornithidae
Dromornithidae (the dromornithids), also commonly referred to as thunder birds or demon ducks, were a clade of large, flightless Australian birds of the Oligocene through Pleistocene epochs.
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Drongo
The drongos are a family, Dicruridae, of passerine birds of the Old World tropics.
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Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese.
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Egret
An egret is any of several herons, most of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes (usually milky white) during the breeding season.
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Egyptian plover
The Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius), also known as the crocodile bird, is a wader, the only member of the genus Pluvianus.
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Elephant bird
Elephant birds are members of the extinct family Aepyornithidae.
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Emberizidae
Emberizidae is a family of seed-eating passerine birds with distinctively finch-like bills.
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Emu
The emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the second-largest living bird by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich.
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Estrildid finch
The estrildid finches are small passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia.
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Eucavitaves
Eucavitaves is a clade that contain the order Trogoniformes (trogons) and the clade Picocoraciae (a large assemblage of birds that includes woodpeckers, kingfishers, hornbills and hoopoes).
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Eufalconimorphae
Eufalconimorphae is a proposed clade of birds, consisting of passerines, parrots, falcons, caracaras and forest falcons (but not other raptors).
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Eurypygiformes
Eurypygiformes is an order formed by the kagus, comprising two species in the family Rhynochetidae endemic to New Caledonia, and the sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) from the tropical regions of the Americas.
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Eurypygimorphae
Eurypygimorphae 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 nuclear genes.
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Fairy-bluebird
The two fairy-bluebirds are small passerine bird species found in forests and plantations in tropical southern Asia and the Philippines.
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Falconidae
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Finch
The true finches are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Fringillidae.
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Flowerpecker
The flowerpeckers are a family, Dicaeidae, of passerine birds.
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Formicariidae
Formicariidae is a family of smallish passerine birds of subtropical and tropical Central and South America known as formicariids.
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Fowl
Fowl are birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes).
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Frigatebird
Frigatebirds (also listed as "frigate bird", "frigate-bird", "frigate", frigate-petrel") are a family of seabirds called Fregatidae which are found across all tropical and subtropical oceans.
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Frogmouth
The frogmouths are a group of nocturnal birds related to the nightjars.
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Galliformes
Galliformes is an order of heavy-bodied ground-feeding birds that includes turkey, grouse, chicken, New World quail and Old World quail, ptarmigan, partridge, pheasant, junglefowl and the Cracidae.
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Gannet
Gannets are seabirds comprising the genus Morus, in the family Sulidae, closely related to boobies.
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Gastornithidae
Gastornithidae is a family of prehistoric birds.
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Gastornithiformes
Gastornithiformes were an extinct order of giant flightless fowl with fossils found in North America, Eurasia, and possibly Australia.
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Gaviiformes
Gaviiformes is an order of aquatic birds containing the loons or divers and their closest extinct relatives.
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Glareolidae
Glareolidae is a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadri.
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Gnatcatcher
The 15 to 20 species of small passerine birds in the gnatcatcher family occur in North and South America (except for the far south and the high Andean regions).
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Gnateater
The gnateaters are a bird family, Conopophagidae, consisting of ten small passerine species in two genera, which occur in South and Central America.
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Goose
Geese are waterfowl of the family Anatidae.
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Grebe
A grebe is a member of the order Podicipediformes and the only type of bird associated with this order.
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Grey hypocolius
The grey hypocolius or simply hypocolius (Hypocolius ampelinus) is a small passerine bird species.
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Grosbeak
Grosbeak is a form taxon containing various species of seed-eating passerine birds with large beaks.
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Ground roller
The ground rollers are a small family of non-migratory near-passerine birds restricted to Madagascar.
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Gruae
Gruae is a clade of birds that contains the order Opisthocomiformes (hoatzin) and Gruimorphae (shorebirds and rails) identified in 2014 by genome analysis.
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Gruiformes
The Gruiformes are an order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird families, with a widespread geographical diversity.
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Guan (bird)
The guans are a number of bird genera which make up the largest group in the family Cracidae.
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Guineafowl
Guineafowl (sometimes called "pet speckled hen", or "original fowl" or guineahen) are birds of the family Numididae in the order Galliformes.
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Gull
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
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Hamerkop
The hamerkop (Scopus umbretta), is a medium-sized wading bird.
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Heliornithidae
The Heliornithidae are a small family of tropical birds with webbed lobes on their feet like those of grebes and coots.
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Helmetshrike
The Prionopidae are a family uniting some smallish to mid-sized songbird species.
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Heron
The herons are the long-legged freshwater and coastal birds in the family Ardeidae, with 64 recognised species, some of which are referred to as egrets or bitterns rather than herons.
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Honeyeater
The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family, Meliphagidae, of small to medium-sized birds.
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Honeyguide
Honeyguides (family Indicatoridae) are a near passerine bird species of the order Piciformes.
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Hoopoe
Hoopoes are colourful birds found across Afro-Eurasia, notable for their distinctive "crown" of feathers.
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Hornbill
The hornbills (Bucerotidae) are a family of bird found in tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Melanesia.
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Hummingbird
Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae.
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Hyliidae
Not to be confused with Hylidae, a family of amphibians. Hyliidae is a proposed family of passerine birds which would include the green hylia (Hylia prasina) and the tit hylia (Pholidornis rushiae).
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Hyliota
The hyliotas are a genus, Hyliota, of passerine bird from Africa.
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Ibis
The ibises (collective plural ibis; classical plurals ibides and ibes) are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, that inhabit wetlands, forests and plains.
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Ibisbill
The ibisbill (Ibidorhyncha struthersii) is a bird related to the waders, but sufficiently distinctive to merit its own family Ibidorhynchidae.
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Icterid
Icterids make up a family (Icteridae) of small- to medium-sized, often colorful, New-World passerine birds.
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Iora
The ioras (Aegithinidae) are a small family of four passerine bird species found in Pakistan and southeast Asia.
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Jacamar
The jacamars are a family, Galbulidae, of near passerine birds from tropical South and Central America, extending up to Mexico.
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Jacana (genus)
Jacana is the genus comprising the two jacanas of the Americas: the northern jacana, Jacana spinosa, and the wattled jacana, Jacana jacana.
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Jacanidae
The bird family Jacanidae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, and consists of 6 genera.
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Jay
Jays are several species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the crow family, Corvidae.
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Keel (bird anatomy)
A keel or carina (plural carinae) in bird anatomy is an extension of the sternum (breastbone) which runs axially along the midline of the sternum and extends outward, perpendicular to the plane of the ribs.
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Kingfisher
Kingfishers or Alcedinidae are a family of small to medium-sized, brightly colored birds in the order Coraciiformes.
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Kinglet
A kinglet, or crest, is a small bird in a group that is sometimes included in the Old World warblers, but is frequently placed in its own family, Regulidae, because of resemblance to titmice.
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Kiwi
Kiwi or kiwis are flightless birds native to New Zealand, in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae.
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Lapwing
Vanellinae are any of various crested plovers, family Charadriidae, noted for its slow, irregular wingbeat in flight and a shrill, wailing cry.
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Lari
The suborder Lari is the part of the order Charadriiformes which includes the gulls, terns, skuas and skimmers, with the waders and snipes making up the rest of the order.
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Laridae
Laridae is a family of seabirds in the order Charadriiformes that includes the gulls, terns and skimmers.
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Lark
Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
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Leaf warbler
Leaf warblers are small insectivorous birds belonging mainly to the genus Phylloscopus.
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Leafbird
The leafbirds (Chloropseidae) are a family of small passerine bird species found in the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
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Leiothrichidae
The laughingthrushes are a family of Old World passerine birds.
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Limpkin
The limpkin (Aramus guarauna), also called carrao, courlan, and crying bird, is a bird that looks like a large rail but is skeletally closer to cranes.
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List of Anseriformes
Anseriformes is an order of birds belonging to the clade Galloanseres.
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List of birds by common name
In this list of birds by common name, a total of 9,722 extant and recently extinct bird species are recognised, belonging to a total 204 families.
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List of birds of Africa
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Africa.
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List of birds of Asia
The birds of Asia are diverse.
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List of birds of Australia
This is a list of the wild birds found in Australia including its outlying islands and territories, but excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory.
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List of birds of Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica
This list is based on the Handbook of Australian, New Zealand and Antarctic Birds, with the doubtfuls omitted.
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List of birds of Europe
In this article, Europe refers to the geographical continent, not the somewhat larger Western Palearctic, which includes parts of the Middle East and north Africa.
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List of birds of North America
The lists of birds in the light blue box below are divided by biological family.
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List of birds of the world
This list is based on the taxonomy of the HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World by Josep del Hoyo and Nigel J. Collar also used by HBW, BirdLife International and IUCN and also includes historically extinct species and the presumed date of extinction.
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List of chicken breeds
There are hundreds of chicken breeds in existence.
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List of fossil bird genera
Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and dinosaurs, except of course that some of the former survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event while the latter did not.
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List of Galliformes
The Galliformes are a clade of bird species of cosmopolitan distribution that, with the Anseriformes, belong to the branch Galloanserae.
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List of individual birds
This is a list of well-known real birds.
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List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
Prehistoric birds are various taxa of birds that have become extinct before recorded history, or more precisely, before they could be studied alive by ornithologists.
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List of paleognath species
The paleognaths (Palaeognathae) are a clade of bird species of gondwanic distribution in Africa, South America, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand.
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List of recently extinct bird species
Since 1500, over 190 species of birds have become extinct, and this rate of extinction seems to be increasing.
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Lists of animals
Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.
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Lists of birds by region
The following are the regional bird lists by continent.
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Lithornithidae
Lithornithidae is an extinct, possibly paraphyletic (but see below) clade of early paleognath birds.
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Locustellidae
Locustellidae is a newly recognized family of small insectivorous songbirds ("warblers"), formerly placed in the Old World warbler "wastebin" family.
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Loon
The loons (North America) or divers (Great Britain/Ireland) are a group of aquatic birds found in many parts of North America and northern Eurasia.
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Lyrebird
A lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds that compose the genus Menura, and the family Menuridae.
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Machaerirhynchus
Machaerirhynchus is a genus of passerine birds with affinities to woodswallows and butcherbirds.
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Macrosphenidae
The African warblers are a newly erected family Macrosphenidae, of songbirds.
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Madagascan warbler
The Madagascan warblers are a newly validated family of songbirds.
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Magellanic plover
The Magellanic plover (Pluvianellus socialis) is a rare and unique wader found only in southernmost South America.
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Manakin
The manakins are a family, Pipridae, of small suboscine passerine birds.
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Many-colored rush tyrant
The many-colored rush tyrant (Tachuris rubrigastra) or many-coloured rush tyrant is a small passerine bird of South America belonging to the tyrant flycatcher family.
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Megapode
The megapodes, also known as incubator birds or mound-builders, are stocky, medium-large, chicken-like birds with small heads and large feet in the family Megapodiidae.
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Melampitta
The melampittas are a family, Melampittidae, of New Guinean birds containing two enigmatic species.
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Melanocharitidae
The Melanocharitidae, the berrypeckers and longbills, is a small bird family restricted to the forests of New Guinea.
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Mesite
The mesites (Mesitornithidae) are a family of birds that are part of a clade (Columbimorphae) that include Columbiformes and Pterocliformes.
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Mimid
The mimids are the New World family of passerine birds, Mimidae, that includes thrashers, mockingbirds, tremblers, and the New World catbirds.
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Mirandornithes
Mirandornithes (name coined by Sangster (2005)) is a clade that consists of flamingos and grebes.
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Mitrospingidae
The Mitrospingidae is a family of passerine birds.
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Moa
The moa were nine species (in six genera) of flightless birds endemic to New Zealand.
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Mockingbird
Mockingbirds are a group of New World passerine birds from the Mimidae family.
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Modulatricidae
Modulatricidae is a small family of passerine birds which are restricted to Africa.
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Mohoidae
Mohoidae is a family of Hawaiian species of recently extinct, nectarivorous songbirds in the genera Moho (ōō) and Chaetoptila (kioea).
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Mohoua
Mohoua is a small genus of three bird species endemic to New Zealand.
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Monarch flycatcher
The monarchs (family Monarchidae) comprise a family of over 100 passerine birds which includes shrikebills, paradise flycatchers, and magpie-larks.
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Motacillidae
The wagtails, longclaws and pipits are a family, Motacillidae, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails.
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Motmot
The motmots or Momotidae are a family of birds in the near passerine order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
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Mottled berryhunter
The mottled berryhunter or mottled whistler (Rhagologus leucostigma) is a species of bird whose relationships are unclear but most likely related to the woodswallows, boatbills and butcherbirds.
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Mousebird
The mousebirds (family Coliidae, order Coliiformes) are a family of birds.
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Myna
The myna (also known as mynah) is a bird of the starling family (Sturnidae).
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Neoaves
Neoaves is a clade that consists of all modern birds (Neornithes or Aves) with the exception of Paleognathae (ratites and kin) and Galloanserae (ducks, chickens and kin).
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Neognathae
Neognaths (Neognathae) are birds within the subclass Neornithes of the class Aves.
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New World barbet
New World barbets, family Capitonidae, are near passerine birds of the order Piciformes which inhabit humid forests in Central and South America.
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New World blackbird
The New World blackbirds consist of 26 species of icterid birds that share the name blackbird but do not correspond with a formal taxon.
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New World oriole
New World orioles are a group of birds in the genus Icterus of the blackbird family.
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New World quail
The New World quails or Odontophoridae are small birds only distantly related to the Old World quail, but named for their similar appearance and habits.
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New World vulture
The New World vulture or condor family Cathartidae contains seven species in five genera, all but one of which are monotypic.
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New World warbler
The New World warblers or wood-warblers are a group of small, often colorful, passerine birds which make up the family Parulidae and are restricted to the New World.
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New Zealand parrot
The New Zealand parrot superfamily, Strigopoidea, consists of three genera of parrots – Nestor, Strigops, and the fossil Nelepsittacus.
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New Zealand wren
The New Zealand wrens are a family (Acanthisittidae) of tiny passerines endemic to New Zealand.
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Nicator
Nicator is a genus of songbird endemic to Africa.
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Nightjar
Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal or crepuscular birds in the family Caprimulgidae, characterized by long wings, short legs and very short bills.
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Northern storm petrel
Northern storm petrels are seabirds in the family Hydrobatidae, part of the order Procellariiformes.
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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).
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Novaeratitae
Novaeratitae is a clade that was originally defined to contain the recent common ancestors of the orders Casuariiformes (emus and cassowaries) and Apterygiformes (kiwis).
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Nuthatch
The nuthatches constitute a genus, Sitta, of small passerine birds belonging to the family Sittidae.
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Odontoanserae
The Odontoanserae is a purposed clade that includes the family Pelagornithidae (pseudo-toothed birds) and the clade Anserimorphae (the order Anseriformes and their stem-relatives).
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Oilbird
The oilbird (Steatornis caripensis), locally known as the guácharo, is a bird species found in the northern areas of South America including the island of Trinidad.
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Old World babbler
The Old World babblers or Timaliidae are a family of mostly Old World passerine birds.
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Old World flycatcher
The Old World flycatchers are a large family, the Muscicapidae, of small passerine birds mostly restricted to the Old World (Europe, Africa and Asia).
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Old World oriole
The Old World orioles (Oriolidae) are an Old World family of passerine birds.
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Olive warbler
The olive warbler (Peucedramus taeniatus) is a small passerine bird.
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Opisthocomidae
Opisthocomidae is a group of birds, the only named family within the order Opisthocomiformes.
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Order (biology)
In biological classification, the order (ordo) is.
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Oreoicidae
Oreoicidae is a newly recognized family of small insectivorous songbirds, the Australo-Papuan bellbirds.
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Orthonychidae
The logrunners (Orthonyx) are a clade of birds which comprises three species of passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea.
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Otidimorphae
The Otidimorphae are a clade of birds that contains the orders Cuculiformes (cuckoos), Musophagiformes (turacos), and Otidiformes (bustards) identified in 2014 by genome analysis.
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Ovenbird (family)
Ovenbirds or furnariids are a large family of small suboscine passerine birds found from Mexico and Central to southern South America.
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Owl
Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes about 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.
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Owlet-nightjar
Owlet-nightjars are small crepuscular birds related to the nightjars and frogmouths.
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Oxpecker
The oxpeckers are two species of bird which make up the family Buphagidae.
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Oystercatcher
The oystercatchers are a group of waders forming the family Haematopodidae, which has a single genus, Haematopus.
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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.
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Pachycephalinae
The whistlers, shrike-thrushes and pitohuis are the fifty-seven species of birds from the subfamily Pachycephalinae.
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Painted berrypecker
The painted berrypeckers, Paramythiidae, are a very small bird family restricted to the mountain forests of New Guinea.
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Painted-snipe
The Rostratulidae (commonly known as painted-snipes), form a taxonomic family of wader species, composed of two genera: Rostratula and Nycticryphes.
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Palaelodidae
Palaelodidae is a family of extinct birds in the group Phoenicopteriformes, which today is represented only by the flamingos.
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Palaeognathae
Palaeognathae, or paleognaths, is one of the two living clades of birds – the other being Neognathae.
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Palmchat
The palmchat (Dulus dominicus) is a small, long-tailed passerine bird, the only species in the genus Dulus and the family Dulidae.
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Pandion (bird)
Pandion is a genus of bird of prey in the family Pandionidae.
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Pardalote
Pardalotes or peep-wrens are a family, Pardalotidae, of very small, brightly coloured birds native to Australia, with short tails, strong legs, and stubby blunt beaks.
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Parrot
Parrots, also known as psittacines, are birds of the roughly 393 species in 92 genera that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions.
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Parrotbill
The parrotbills are a group of peculiar birds native to East and Southeast Asia, though feral populations exist elsewhere.
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Passerea
Passerea is a clade that was proposed by Jarvis et al.
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Passerellidae
The Passerellidae (New World sparrows or American sparrows) are a large family of seed-eating passerine birds with distinctively finch-like bills.
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Passerida
Passerida is, under the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, one of two parvorders contained within the suborder Passeri (standard taxonomic practice would place them at the rank of infraorder).
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Passerine
A passerine is any bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species.
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Pelagornithidae
The Pelagornithidae, commonly called pelagornithids, pseudodontorns, bony-toothed birds, false-toothed birds or pseudotooth birds, are a prehistoric family of large seabirds.
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Pelecaniformes
The Pelecaniformes are an order of medium-sized and large waterbirds found worldwide.
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Pelican
Pelicans are a genus of large water birds that make up the family Pelecanidae.
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Pellorneidae
The ground babblers are a family, Pellorneidae, of mostly Old World passerine birds.
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Penduline tit
The penduline tits constitute a family of small passerine birds, related to the true tits.
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Penguin
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.
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Petrel
Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.
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Phaenicophilidae
Phaenicophilidae is a family of passerine birds.
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Phaethontiformes
The Phaethontiformes are an order of birds.
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Phasianidae
The Phasianidae are a family of heavy, groundliving birds which includes pheasants, partridges, junglefowl, chickens, Old World quail, and peafowl.
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Pheasant
Pheasants are birds of several genera within the subfamily Phasianinae, of the family Phasianidae in the order Galliformes.
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Philippine creeper
The Philippine creepers or rhabdornises are small passerine birds.
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Phoenicopteridae
Phoenicopteridae is a wading bird family including flamingos and their close extinct relatives.
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Phoenicopteriformes
Phoenicopteriformes is a group of water birds which comprises flamingos and their extinct relatives.
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Picathartes
The picathartes, rockfowl or bald crows are a small genus of two passerine bird species forming the family Picathartidae found in the rain-forests of tropical west and central Africa.
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Piciformes
Nine 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.
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Pipit
The pipits are a cosmopolitan genus, Anthus, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails.
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Piprites
Piprites is a genus of bird traditionally placed in the Pipridae family, although it remains unclear if this is correct.
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Pitta
Pittas are a family, Pittidae, of passerine birds mainly found in tropical Asia and Australasia, although a couple of species live in Africa.
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Plains-wanderer
The plains-wanderer (Pedionomus torquatus) is a bird, the only representative of family Pedionomidae and genus Pedionomus.
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Ploceidae
The Ploceidae are a family of small passerine birds, many of which are called weavers or weaverbirds.
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Plover
Plovers are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae.
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Pluvialis
Pluvialis is a genus of plovers, a group of wading birds comprising four species that breed in the temperate or Arctic Northern Hemisphere.
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Pnoepyga
Pnoepyga is a genus of passerines endemic to southern and south eastern Asia.
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Potoo
Potoos (family Nyctibiidae) are a group of near passerine birds related to the nightjars and frogmouths.
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Pratincole
The pratincoles or greywaders are a group of birds which together with the coursers make up the family Glareolidae.
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Procellariidae
The family Procellariidae is a group of seabirds that comprises the fulmarine petrels, the gadfly petrels, the prions, and the shearwaters.
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Procellariiformes
Procellariiformes is an order of seabirds that comprises four families: the albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters, and 2 families of storm petrels.
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Przevalski's finch
The Przevalski's finch or Przewalski's finch (Urocynchramus pylzowi) is an unusual passerine bird from the mountains of central-west China.
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Psittacidae
The family Psittacidae is one of three families of true parrots.
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Psittacopasserae
Psittacopasserae is a taxon of birds consisting of the Passeriformes (passerines, a large group of perching birds) and Psittaciformes (parrots).
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Psittaculidae
The parrot family Psittaculidae consists of five subfamilies, Agapornithinae, Loriinae, Platycercinae, Psittacellinae and Psittaculinae.
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Psophodidae
Psophodidae is a family of passerine birds native to Australia and nearby areas.
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Puffbird
The puffbirds and their relatives in the near passerine family Bucconidae are tropical tree-dwelling insectivorous birds that are found from South America up to Mexico.
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Quail-thrush
A quail-thrush is a bird of the genus Cinclosoma, which contains eight species.
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Quetzal
Quetzal are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family.
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Rail (bird)
The rails, or Rallidae, are a large cosmopolitan family of small- to medium-sized ground-living birds.
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Rail-babbler
The rail-babbler or Malaysian rail-babbler (Eupetes macrocerus) is a strange, rail-like, brown and pied ground living bird.
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Recurvirostridae
The Recurvirostridae are a family of birds in the wader suborder Charadrii.
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Rhea (bird)
The rheas are large ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) in the order Rheiformes, native to South America, distantly related to the ostrich and emu.
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Rheidae
Rheidae is a family of flightless ratite birds which first appeared in the Paleocene.
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Rhipiduridae
The family Rhipiduridae are small insectivorous birds of Australasia, Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent that includes the fantails and silktails.
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Rhynochetos
Rhynochetos is a genus of birds in the kagu family.
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Rockjumper
The rockjumpers are medium-sized insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the genus Chaetops, which constitutes the entire family Chaetopidae.
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Roller
The rollers are an Old World family, Coraciidae, of near passerine birds.
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Rosy thrush-tanager
The rosy thrush-tanager (Rhodinocichla rosea), or rose-breasted thrush-tanager, is a species of bird in the currently monotypic genus Rhodinocichla.
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Royal flycatcher
The royal flycatchers are a genus, Onychorhynchus, of passerine birds in the family Tityridae family according to the IOC.
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Sandgrouse
Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae, a family of sixteen species of bird, members of the order Pterocliformes.
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Sandpiper
Sandpipers are a large family, Scolopacidae, of waders or shorebirds.
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Sapayoa
The sapayoa or broad-billed sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma) is a suboscine passerine found in lowland rainforests in Panama and north-western South America.
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Sarothruridae
Sarothruridae is a family of small- to medium-sized ground-living birds found in Madagascar and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Satinbird
The satinbirds or cnemophilines, are a family, Cnemophilidae of passerine birds which consists of three species found in the mountain forests of New Guinea.
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Screamer
The screamers are a small family, Anhimidae, of South American birds.
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Scrubbird
Scrubbirds are shy, secretive, ground-dwelling birds of the family Atrichornithidae.
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Secretarybird
The secretarybird or secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a very large, mostly terrestrial bird of prey.
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Seedsnipe
The seedsnipes are a small family, Thinocoridae, of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a herbivorous diet.
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Semnornis
The toucan-barbets are the small bird genus Semnornis.
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Seriema
The seriemas are the sole living members of the small bird family Cariamidae, which is also the only surviving lineage of the order Cariamae.
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Sharpbill
The sharpbill (Oxyruncus cristatus) is a small passerine bird in the family Tityridae.
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Sheathbill
The sheathbills are a family of birds, Chionidae.
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Shrike
Shrikes are carnivorous passerine birds of the family Laniidae.
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Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy of birds
The Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy is a bird taxonomy proposed by Charles Sibley and Jon Edward Ahlquist.
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Silky-flycatcher
The silky-flycatchers are a small family, Ptiliogonatidae, of passerine birds.
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Sittella
The sittellas are a family, Neosittidae, of small passerine birds found only in Australasia.
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Skimmer
The skimmers, forming the genus Rynchops, are tern-like birds in the family Laridae.
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Skua
The skuas are a group of seabirds with about seven species forming the family Stercorariidae and the genus Stercorarius.
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Songbird
A songbird is a bird belonging to the clade Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes).
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Spadebill
A spadebill is any of seven species of Central and South American passerine birds of the genus Platyrinchus.
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Sparrow
Sparrows are a family of small passerine birds.
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Spoonbill
Spoonbills are a genus, Platalea, of large, long-legged wading birds.
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Spotted elachura
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.
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Starling
Starlings are small to medium-sized passerine birds in the family Sturnidae.
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Stenostiridae
Stenostiridae, or the fairy flycatchers, are a family of small passerine birds proposed as a result of recent discoveries in molecular systematics.
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Stilt
Stilt is a common name for several species of birds in the family Recurvirostridae, which also includes those known as avocets.
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Stitchbird
The stitchbird or hihi (Notiomystis cincta) is a rare honeyeater-like bird endemic to the North Island and adjacent offshore islands of New Zealand.
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Stone-curlew
The stone-curlews, also known as dikkops or thick-knees, consist of nine species within the family Burhinidae, and are found throughout the tropical and temperate parts of the world, with two species found in Australia.
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Stork
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills.
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Streaked scrub warbler
The streaked scrub warbler (Scotocerca inquieta) is a species of bird in the Scotocercidae family from Africa and south-western Asia.
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Strisores
Strisores is a clade of birds.
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Struthionidae
Struthionidae is a family of flightless ratite birds which first appeared during the Miocene epoch, though various Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene ratites may belong to this group.
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Sugarbird
The sugarbirds are a small genus, Promerops, and family, Promeropidae, of passerine birds which are restricted to southern Africa.
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Sulidae
The bird family Sulidae comprises the gannets and boobies.
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Suliformes
The order Suliformes (dubbed "Phalacrocoraciformes" by Christidis & Boles 2008) is an order recognised by the International Ornithologist's Union.
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Sunbird
The sunbirds and spiderhunters make up a family, Nectariniidae, of passerine birds.
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Sunbittern
The sunbittern (Eurypyga helias) is a bittern-like bird of tropical regions of the Americas, and the sole member of the family Eurypygidae (sometimes spelled Eurypigidae) and genus Eurypyga.
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Swallow
The swallows and martins, or Hirundinidae, are a family of passerine birds found around the world on all continents except Antarctica.
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Swan
Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus.
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Swift
The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds.
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Sylviidae
Sylviidae is a family of passerine birds that includes the typical warblers, parrotbills, the wrentit, and a number of babblers formerly placed within the Old World babbler family.
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Sylviornithidae
Sylviornithidae is an extinct family of flightless birds.
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Tanager
The tanagers (singular) comprise the bird family Thraupidae, in the order Passeriformes.
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Tapaculo
The tapaculos (pronounced /tæpəˈku:ləʊ/) are a family, Rhinocryptidae, of small suboscine passerine birds, found mainly in South America and with the highest diversity in the Andean regions.
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Telluraves
Telluraves (also called land birds or core landbirds) is a recently defined clade of birds with controversial content.
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Tern
Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands.
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Thrasher
Thrashers are a New World group of passerine birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds.
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Threskiornithidae
The family Threskiornithidae includes 34 species of large wading birds.
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Thrush (bird)
The thrushes are a family, Turdidae, of passerine birds with a worldwide distribution.
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Tinamou
Tinamous form an order of birds (Tinamiformes), comprising a single family (Tinamidae) with two distinct subfamilies, containing 47 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
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Tit (bird)
The tits, chickadees, and titmice constitute the Paridae, a large family of small passerine birds which occur mainly in the Northern Hemisphere and Africa.
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Tityra
The tityras are passerine birds in the genus Tityra of the family Tityridae.
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Tityridae
Tityridae is family of suboscine passerine birds found in forest and woodland in the Neotropics.
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Tody
The todies are a family, Todidae, of tiny Caribbean birds in the order Coraciiformes, which also includes the kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers.
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Toucan
Toucans are members of the Neotropical near passerine bird family Ramphastidae.
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Treecreeper
The treecreepers are a family, Certhiidae, of small passerine birds, widespread in wooded regions of the Northern Hemisphere and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Treeswift
Treeswifts or crested swifts are a family, Hemiprocnidae, of aerial near passerine birds, closely related to the true swifts.
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Trogon
The trogons and quetzals are birds in the order Trogoniformes which contains only one family, the Trogonidae.
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Tropicbird
Tropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds.
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True owl
The true owls or typical owls (family Strigidae) are one of the two generally accepted families of owls, the other being the barn owls (Tytonidae).
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Trumpeter (bird)
The trumpeters are a family of birds restricted to the humid forests of the Amazon and Guiana Shield in South America.
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Turaco
The turacos make up the bird family Musophagidae (literally "banana-eaters"), which includes plantain-eaters and go-away-birds.
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Tyranni
The Tyranni (suboscines) are a clade of passerine birds that includes more than 1,000 species, the large majority of which are South American.
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Tyrant flycatcher
The tyrant flycatchers (Tyrannidae) are a family of passerine birds which occur throughout North and South America.
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Vanga
The Vangidae family (from vanga, Malagasy for the hook-billed vanga, Vanga curvirostris) comprises a group of often shrike-like medium-sized birds distributed from Australia to Africa, including the vangas of Madagascar to which the family owe its name.
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Vegaviidae
Vegaviidae is an extinct basal family of anserimorph birds which existed from the Late Cretaceous to the Early Paleogene periods with fossils found in Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and Antarctica.
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Viduidae
The indigobirds and whydahs, together with the Cuckoo-finch make up the family Viduidae; they are small passerine birds native to Africa.
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Vireo
The vireos make up a family, Vireonidae, of small to medium-sized passerine birds found in the New World (Canada to Argentina,including the West Indies) and Southeast Asia, "Vireo" is a Latin word referring to a green migratory bird, perhaps the female golden oriole, possibly the European greenfinch.
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Wader
Waders are birds commonly found along shorelines and mudflats that wade in order to forage for food (such as insects or crustaceans) in the mud or sand.
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Wagtail
The wagtails are a genus, Motacilla, of passerine birds in the family Motacillidae.
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Wallcreeper
The wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria) is a small passerine bird found throughout the high mountains of Eurasia from southern Europe to central China.
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Wattle-eye
Platysteiridae is a family of small, stout passerine birds of the African tropics.
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Wattled ploughbill
The wattled ploughbill (Eulacestoma nigropectus) is a small, approximately 14 cm long, olive-brown songbird with a strong, thick, wedge-shaped black bill, used to plough into dead tree branches, bark and twigs in search for its insects diet.
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Waxwing
The waxwings are passerine birds classified in the genus Bombycilla.
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White-eye
The white-eyes are small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia.
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Wood hoopoe
The wood hoopoes and scimitarbills are a small African family, Phoeniculidae, of near passerine birds.
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Woodpecker
Woodpeckers are part of the family Picidae, a group of near-passerine birds that also consist of piculets, wrynecks, and sapsuckers.
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Woodswallow
Woodswallows are soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds in the genus Artamus.
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Wren
The wrens are mostly small, brownish passerine birds in the mainly New World family Troglodytidae.
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References
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