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[HBW - BirdLife (v3)] |
28/04/2024 12:00:52 PM |
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The complete list of ORDERS within the Class AVES is given below.
Note that several of the orders have no surviving members: they are extinct.
Orders [Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)] (43) |
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ARCHAEOPTERYGIFORMES |
Archaeopteryx |
1 |
1 |
Yes |
HESPERORNITHIFORMES |
Fossil Marine Birds |
3 |
14 |
Yes |
ICHTHYORNITHIFORMES |
Extinct Toothed Birds |
2 |
2 |
Yes |
STRUTHIONIFORMES |
Ostriches, Rheas, Tinamous, Cassowaries, Emus, Kiwis |
14 |
69 |
No |
GALLIFORMES |
Megapodes, Guans, Chachalacas, Curassows, Guineafowl, New World Quails, Pheasants, Partridges, Turkeys, Grouse |
83 |
319 |
No |
AEPYORNITHIFORMES |
Elephant Birds (pleistocene - Recent, Madagascar) |
1 |
7 |
Yes |
ANSERIFORMES |
Screamers, Magpie Goose, Ducks, Geese, Swans |
56 |
184 |
No |
PODICIPEDIFORMES |
Grebes |
6 |
24 |
No |
PHOENICOPTERIFORMES |
Flamingos |
3 |
6 |
No |
PHAETHONTIFORMES |
Tropicbirds |
1 |
3 |
No |
EURYPYGIFORMES |
Kagu, Sunbittern |
2 |
2 |
No |
MESITORNITHIFORMES |
Mesites |
2 |
3 |
No |
DIATRYMIFORMES |
Extinct Flightless Birds |
? |
? |
Yes |
COLUMBIFORMES |
Pigeons, Doves |
56 |
376 |
No |
PTEROCLIFORMES |
Sandgrouse |
2 |
16 |
No |
CAPRIMULGIFORMES |
Oilbird, Frogmouths, Potoos, Nightjars, Owlet-nightjars, Treeswifts, Swifts, Hummingbirds |
151 |
628 |
No |
OPISTHOCOMIFORMES |
Hoatzin |
1 |
1 |
No |
ODONTOPTERYGIFORMES |
Extinct Bony-toothed Birds |
13 |
45 |
Yes |
CUCULIFORMES |
Cuckoos |
37 |
159 |
No |
GRUIFORMES |
Finfoots, Rails, Gallinules, Coots, Trumpeters, Limpkin, Cranes |
54 |
203 |
No |
OTIDIFORMES |
Bustards |
12 |
26 |
No |
MUSOPHAGIFORMES |
Turacos |
7 |
24 |
No |
GAVIIFORMES |
Loons/divers |
1 |
5 |
No |
SPHENISCIFORMES |
Penguins |
6 |
19 |
No |
PROCELLARIIFORMES |
Southern Storm-petrels, Northern Storm-petrels, Albatrosses, Petrels, Shearwaters |
28 |
154 |
No |
CICONIIFORMES |
Storks |
7 |
21 |
No |
PELECANIFORMES |
Ibises, Spoonbills, Herons, Hamerkop, Shoebill, Pelicans |
36 |
120 |
No |
SULIFORMES |
Frigatebirds, Gannets, Boobies, Cormorants, Darters |
15 |
59 |
No |
CHARADRIIFORMES |
Thick-knees, Sheathbills, Magellanic Plover, Egyptian Plover, Oystercatchers, Ibisbill, Avocets, Stilts, Plovers, Plains-wanderer, Seedsnipes, Painted-snipes, Jacanas, Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes, Buttonquails, Crab-plover, Coursers, Pratincoles, Gulls, Terns, Skimmers, Skuas, Auks |
90 |
402 |
No |
STRIGIFORMES |
Barn-owls, Typical Owls |
32 |
262 |
No |
CATHARTIFORMES |
New World Vultures |
5 |
8 |
No |
ACCIPITRIFORMES |
Secretarybird, Osprey, Hawks, Eagles |
72 |
271 |
No |
COLIIFORMES |
Mousebirds |
2 |
6 |
No |
LEPTOSOMIFORMES |
Cuckoo Roller |
1 |
3 |
No |
TROGONIFORMES |
Trogons |
8 |
46 |
No |
BUCEROTIFORMES |
Hornbills, Hoopoes, Woodhoopoes |
19 |
76 |
No |
CORACIIFORMES |
Bee-eaters, Rollers, Ground-rollers, Todies, Motmots, Kingfishers |
35 |
190 |
No |
DINORNITHIFORMES |
Moas (pleistocene - Recent, New Zealand) |
8 |
17 |
Yes |
PICIFORMES |
Jacamars, Puffbirds, Toucans, New World Barbets, Prong-billed Barbets, Asian Barbets, African Barbets, Honeyguides, Woodpeckers |
75 |
496 |
No |
CARIAMIFORMES |
Seriemas |
2 |
2 |
No |
FALCONIFORMES |
Falcons, Caracaras |
11 |
70 |
No |
PSITTACIFORMES |
New Zealand Parrots, Cockatoos, Parrots |
92 |
437 |
No |
PASSERIFORMES |
New Zealand Wrens, Pittas, Asities, Typical Broadbills, Sapayoa, African And Green Broadbills, Typical Antbirds, Gnateaters, Crescentchests, Antpittas, Tapaculos, Ground-antbirds, Ovenbirds, Manakins, Cotingas, Tityras And Allies, Tyrant-flycatchers, Lyrebirds, Scrub-birds, Bowerbirds, Australasian Treecreepers, Fairy-wrens, Bristlebirds, Honeyeaters, Pardalotes, Thornbills, Logrunners, Australasian Babblers, Mohouas, Ploughbill, Sittellas, Old World Orioles, Painted Berrypeckers, Australo-papuan Bellbirds, Quail-thrushes And Jewel-babblers, Shrike-tits, Whistlers, Whipbirds And Wedgebills, Vireos, Cuckooshrikes, Berryhunter, Woodswallows And Butcherbirds, Boatbills, Vangas And Allies, Batises And Wattle-eyes, Ioras, Bristlehead, Bush-shrikes, Fantails, Drongos, Ifrit, Monarch-flycatchers, Crested Jay, Shrikes, Crows And Jays, Melampittas, Australian Mudnesters, Birds-of-paradise, New Zealand Wattlebirds, Stitchbird, Berrypeckers And Longbills, Satinbirds, Picathartes, Rail-babbler, Rockjumpers, Australasian Robins, Hyliotas, Fairy Flycatcher And Allies, Tits And Chickadees, Penduline-tits, Larks, Bearded Reedling, Nicators, Crombecs And Allies, Cisticolas And Allies, Reed-warblers, Cupwings, Grasshopper-warblers And Grassbirds, Donacobius, Tetrakas, Swallows And Martins, Bulbuls, Leaf-warblers, Bush-warblers, Long-tailed Tits, Old World Warblers And Parrotbills, White-eyes And Yuhinas, Scimitar-babblers And Allies, Ground Babblers, Laughingthrushes And Allies, Treecreepers, Nuthatches, Gnatcatchers, Wrens, Dippers, Oxpeckers, Starlings, Mockingbirds And Thrashers, Thrushes, Old World Flycatchers And Chats, Kinglets And Firecrests, Palmchat, Hypocolius, Hylocitreas, Waxwings, Silky-flycatchers, Oos, Elachura, Sugarbirds, Spot-throat And Allies, Fairy-bluebirds, Leafbirds, Flowerpeckers, Sunbirds, Accentors, Olive Warbler, Przevalski's Rosefinch, Weavers, Waxbills, Whydahs And Indigobirds, Old World Sparrows, Pipits And Wagtails, Finches, Longspurs, Thrush-tanager, Old World Buntings, New World Sparrows, Wrenthrush, Cuban Warblers, New World Blackbirds, New World Warblers, Hispaniolan Tanagers, Spindalises, Puerto Rican Tanager, Chat-tanagers, Mitrospingid Tanagers, Cardinals, Tanagers |
1380 |
6900 |
No |
Taxonomy: HBW - BirdLife (v3)
Genera: 2432 Species: 11676
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