Animal Order

• Gruiformes

  Inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in...

• Coraciiformes

  Rollers; kingfishers; hornbills; hoopoes; motmots; bee eaters; todies.

• Passeriformes

  Largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows;...

• Galliformes

  Pheasants; turkeys; grouse; partridges; quails; chickens; brush turkeys; curassows;...

• Piciformes

  Woodpeckers; jacamars; puffbirds; barbets; honey guides; toucans.

• Ciconiiformes

  Order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and...

• Charadriiformes

  Large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters: shorebirds...

• Pelecaniformes

  Pelicans; frigate birds; gannets; cormorants.

• Falconiformes

  Chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable...

• Procellariiformes

  Petrels; albatrosses; shearwaters; diving petrels.

• Columbiformes

  Sand grouse; pigeons; doves; extinct dodos and solitaires.

• Apodiformes

  Swifts; hummingbirds.

• Caprimulgiformes

  Goatsuckers; frogmouths; oilbirds.

• Anseriformes

  Ducks; geese; swans; screamers.

• Strigiformes

  Owls.

• Cuculiformes

  Cuckoos; touracos; etc.

• Casuariiformes

  A ratite bird order: cassowaries and emus.

• Psittaciformes

  An order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories...

• Gaviiformes

  Large aquatic birds: loons and some extinct forms.

• Podicipitiformes

  Grebes.

• Sphenisciformes

  Penguins.

• Ratitae

  Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders.

• Struthioniformes

  A ratite bird order: ostriches and related extinct birds; known from the Pleistocene...

• Apterygiformes

  A ratite bird order: flightless ground birds having vestigial wings and long bills...

• Rheiformes

  A ratite bird order: birds intermediate in characteristics between ostriches and emus:...

• Aepyorniformes

  Huge extinct flightless birds: elephant birds.

• Dinornithiformes

  A ratite bird order: recently extinct flightless birds of New Zealand.

• Trogoniformes

  Trogons.

• Insessores

  A bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally...

• Raptores

  Term used in former classifications; erroneously grouped together birds of the orders Falconiformes...

• Picariae

  Term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes.

Also contains

• bird

  Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wi...

• young bird

  A bird that is still young.

• Archaeornithes

  Primitive reptile-like fossil birds of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous.

• genus Protoavis

  Extinct primitive birds of the Triassic period; 70 million years before archaeo...