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71 relations: Accipitriformes, Accipitrimorphae, Aequorlitornithes, Aequornithes, Afroaves, Apodiformes, Australaves, Austrodyptornithes, Bird, Bucerotiformes, Bustard, Caprimulgiformes, Cariamiformes, Cathartiformes, Cavitaves, Charadriiformes, Clade, Cladogram, Columbaves, Columbea, Columbidae, Columbimorphae, Common starling, Coraciiformes, Coraciimorphae, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Cuckoo, Cuckoo roller, David Allen Sibley, Eucavitaves, Eufalconimorphae, Eurypygiformes, Eurypygimorphae, Falconidae, Fowl, Frogmouth, Gaviiformes, Grebe, Gruiformes, Holocene, Inopinaves, Late Cretaceous, Mesite, Mirandornithes, Mousebird, Oilbird, Opisthocomidae, Otidimorphae, Owl, Owlet-nightjar, ..., Palaeognathae, Parrot, Passerea, Passerine, Pelecaniformes, Penguin, Phaethontiformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Phylogenetic tree, Piciformes, Picocoraciae, Potoo, Procellariiformes, Psittacopasserae, Sandgrouse, Stork, Strisores, Suliformes, Telluraves, Trogon, Turaco. Expand index (21 more) »
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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Aequorlitornithes
Aequorlitornithes is a clade of waterbirds recovered in a compressive genomic systematic study using nearly 200 species in 2015.
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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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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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Apodiformes
Traditionally, the bird order Apodiformes contained three living families: the swifts (Apodidae), the treeswifts (Hemiprocnidae), and the hummingbirds (Trochilidae).
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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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Austrodyptornithes
Austrodyptornithes is a clade of birds that include the orders Sphenisciformes (penguins) and Procellariiformes (tube-nosed seabirds).
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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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Bucerotiformes
Bucerotiformes is an order that contains the hornbills, hoopoe and wood hoopoes.
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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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Caprimulgiformes
The Caprimulgiformes is an order of birds that includes a number of birds with global distribution (except Antarctica).
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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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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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Charadriiformes
Charadriiformes is a diverse order of small to medium-large birds.
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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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Columbaves
Columbaves is a clade that contains Columbimorphae (pigeons, mesites, and sandgrouse) and Otidimorphae (bustards, cuckoos, and turacos) discovered by genomic analysis.
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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 starling
The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling, or in the British Isles just the starling, is a medium-sized passerine bird in the starling family, Sturnidae.
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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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Coraciimorphae
Coraciimorphae is a clade of birds that contains the order Coliiformes (mousebirds) and the clade Cavitaves (a large assemblage of birds that includes woodpeckers, kingfishers and trogons).
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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, was a sudden mass extinction of some three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, approximately 66 million years ago.
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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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David Allen Sibley
David Allen Sibley (born 22 October 1961, in Plattsburgh, New York) is an American ornithologist.
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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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Falconidae
The falcons and caracaras are around 60 species of diurnal birds of prey that make up the family Falconidae.
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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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Frogmouth
The frogmouths are a group of nocturnal birds related to the nightjars.
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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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Grebe
A grebe is a member of the order Podicipediformes and the only type of bird associated with this order.
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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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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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Inopinaves
Inopinaves is a clade of neoavian birds recovered in a compressive genomic systematic study using nearly 200 species in 2015; it contains the clades Opisthocomiformes (Hoatzin) and Telluraves (core landbirds); the study shows that the Hoatzin diverged from other birds 64 million years ago.
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Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.
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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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Mirandornithes
Mirandornithes (name coined by Sangster (2005)) is a clade that consists of flamingos and grebes.
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Mousebird
The mousebirds (family Coliidae, order Coliiformes) are a family of birds.
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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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Opisthocomidae
Opisthocomidae is a group of birds, the only named family within the order Opisthocomiformes.
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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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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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Palaeognathae
Palaeognathae, or paleognaths, is one of the two living clades of birds – the other being Neognathae.
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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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Passerea
Passerea is a clade that was proposed by Jarvis et al.
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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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Pelecaniformes
The Pelecaniformes are an order of medium-sized and large waterbirds found worldwide.
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Penguin
Penguins (order Sphenisciformes, family Spheniscidae) are a group of aquatic, flightless birds.
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Phaethontiformes
The Phaethontiformes are an order of birds.
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Phoenicopteriformes
Phoenicopteriformes is a group of water birds which comprises flamingos and their extinct relatives.
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Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities—their phylogeny—based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics.
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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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Picocoraciae
Picocoraciae is a clade that contains the order Bucerotiformes (hornbills and hoopoes) and the clade Picodynastornithes (containing birds like kingfishers and rollers, and woodpeckers and toucans) supported by various genetic analysisNaish, D. (2012).
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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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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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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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Sandgrouse
Sandgrouse is the common name for Pteroclidae, a family of sixteen species of bird, members of the order Pterocliformes.
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Stork
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills.
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Strisores
Strisores is a clade of birds.
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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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Telluraves
Telluraves (also called land birds or core landbirds) is a recently defined clade of birds with controversial content.
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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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Turaco
The turacos make up the bird family Musophagidae (literally "banana-eaters"), which includes plantain-eaters and go-away-birds.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoaves
