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In this list of birds by common name, a total of 10,976 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. Species marked with a "†" are extinct. [1
List of birds. Penguins. Ostriches. This article lists living orders and families of birds. The links below should then lead to family accounts and hence to individual species. The passerines (perching birds) alone account for well over 5,000 species. In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of ...
Birds of the World (BoW) is an online database of ornithological data adapted from the Handbook of the Birds of the World and contemporary reference works, including Birds of North America, Neotropical Birds Online, and Bird Families of the World. [2] The database is published and maintained by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and collects data ...
The American robin is the state bird of Wisconsin. This list of birds of Wisconsin includes species documented in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and accepted by the Records Committee of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology (WSORC). As of July 2022 there were 441 species and a species pair included in the official list. Of them, 92 are classed as accidental, 34 are classed as casual, 53 are ...
Grey-headed kingfisher, by Giles Laurent. Red-chested cuckoo, by Giles Laurent. Slaty-crowned antpitta, by Charlesjsharp. Graceful pitta, by JJ Harrison. Sword-billed hummingbird, by Charlesjsharp. Chestnut-naped antpitta, by Charlesjsharp. Gibson's albatross, by JJ Harrison. Little ringed plover, by Stephan Sprinz.
The turacos and plantain eaters are brightly coloured, usually in blue, green, or purple. The go-away birds are mostly grey and white. Schalow's turaco, Tauraco schalowi (A) Purple-crested turaco, Tauraco porphyreolophus (A) Ross's turaco, Musophaga rossae (A) Gray go-away-bird, Corythaixoides concolor.
The scarlet ibis (above) and rufous-vented chachalaca (below) are the national birds of Trinidad and Tobago. The South American Classification Committee (SACC) of the American Ornithological Society lists 489 species of birds that have been confirmed on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago as of July 2024. Of them, two are endemic, seven have ...
Order: Charadriiformes Family: Scolopacidae. Scolopacidae is a large diverse family of small to medium-sized shorebirds including the sandpipers, curlews, godwits, shanks, tattlers, woodcocks, snipes, dowitchers and phalaropes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.