List of bird genera

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of aves or birds, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, and a high metabolic rate.

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Restless flycatcher in the downstroke of flapping flight

Accipitriformes

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Portrait of a bald eagle, showing its strongly hooked beak and the cere covering the base of the beak.

Eagles, Old World vultures, secretary-birds, hawks, harriers, etc.

Anseriformes

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Landing mallard drake

Waterfowl

Apodiformes

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Purple-throated carib feeding at a flower

Swifts, treeswifts and hummingbirds

Apterygiformes

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A Southern brown kiwi.

Bucerotiformes

Hornbills, hoopoes, and wood-hoopoes

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A Western red-billed hornbill.

Caprimulgiformes

Nightjars, nighthawks, potoos, oilbirds, frogmouths and owlet-nightjars

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The Madagascan nightjar is restricted to the islands of Madagascar and the Seychelles.

Cariamiformes

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Red-legged seriema, Cariama cristata

Casuariiformes

Cassowaries and emus

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Southern cassowary

Cathartiformes

New World vultures

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American black vultures on a horse carcass

Charadriiformes

Plovers, crab plovers, lapwings, seagulls, puffins, auks, sandpipers, buttonquails, stilts, avocets, ibisbills, woodcocks, skuas, etc.

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European herring gull

Ciconiiformes

Storks, openbills, and jabiru

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Marabou stork at Etosha National Park in Namibia

Coliiformes

Mousebirds

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Blue-naped mousebird (Urocolius macrourus)

Columbiformes

Pigeons and doves

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Rock dove in flight

Coraciiformes

Rollers, bee eaters, todies, kingfishers, etc.

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Like many forest-living kingfishers, the yellow-billed kingfisher often nests in arboreal termite nests.

Cuculiformes

Cuckoos, anis, etc.

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Some species, like the Asian emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus) exhibit iridescent plumage.

Eurypygiformes

Sunbitterns and kagu

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The sunbittern will open its wings to display two large eye spots when threatened

Falconiformes

Falcons and caracara

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The laughing falcon is a snake-eating specialist

Galliformes

Gamebirds

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Despite its distinct appearance, the wild turkey is actually a very close relative of pheasants

Gaviiformes

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Red-throated loon (G. stellata), the smallest living Gavia species. Some Miocene members of this genus were smaller still.

Gruiformes

Cranes, crakes, rails, wood-rails, fluftais, gallinules, limpkin, trumpeters, and finfoots

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Rails are one of the most widespread Gruiformes

Leptosomiformes

Male cuckoo roller
The cuckoo roller exhibits a pronounced sexual dichromatism in the plumage.

Mesitornithiformes

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Subdesert mesite, Monias benschi

Musophagiformes

Turacos and go-away-birds

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Great blue turaco
Corythaeola cristata

Opisthocomiformes

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Hoatzin at Lake Sandoval, Peru

Otidiformes

Bustards, floricans, etc.

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Captive specimen of a male great bustard, showing the characteristic long, beard-like feathers and heavy build.

Passeriformes

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Clockwise from top right: Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea), blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata), house sparrow (Passer domesticus), great tit (Parus major), hooded crow (Corvus cornix), southern masked weaver (Ploceus velatus)

Passerines, the "song birds". This is the largest order of birds and contains more than half of all birds.

Pelecaniformes

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A brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalis, taken in Santa Barbara, California

Pelicans, ibises, shoebills, egrets, herons, etc.

Phaethontiformes

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Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus subsp. mesonauta) in waters around Trinidad & Tobago

Phoenicopteriformes

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James's flamingos at Laguna Colorada in Bolivia

Piciformes

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A black-rumped flameback using its tail for support

Woodpickers, flickers, toucans, aracaris, motmots, etc.

Podicipediformes

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Diving grebe

Procellariiformes

Petrels, storm petrels, albatrosses, and diving petrels

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The poorly known New Zealand storm petrel was considered extinct for 150 years before being rediscovered in 2003.

Psittaciformes

Parrots, parakeets, macaws, and cockatoos

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Most parrot species are tropical, but a few species, like this austral parakeet, range deeply into temperate zones.

Pterocliformes

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Pallas's sandgrouse in a field in the Gobi Desert

Rheiformes

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A flock of rhea in Lenschow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Sphenisciformes

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Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) feeding young. Like its relatives, a neatly bi-coloured species with a head marking.

Strigiformes

Owls

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Great horned owl perched on the top of a Joshua tree at evening twilight in the Mojave Desert USA.

Struthioniformes

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A male Somali ostrich in a Kenyan savanna, showing its blueish neck

Suliformes

Boobies, gannets, frigatebirds, cormorants, shags, and darters

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Little cormorant Phalacrocorax niger

Tinamiformes

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Great tinamou roosting

Trogoniformes

Trogons and quetzals

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A pair of scarlet-rumped trogons, showing sexual dimorphism in the plumage. The female is on the left, male on the right.