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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 ...
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.
Chat-tyrant. Chestnut-backed bush warbler. Chestnut-backed scimitar babbler. Chinese pheasant. Citrine lorikeet. Common fiscal. List of birds by common name. Coral-billed scimitar babbler. Crested fireback.
For species found in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the list are those of the AOS, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North and Middle American birds.
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.
Birds have one of the most complex respiratory systems of all animal groups. [77] Upon inhalation, 75% of the fresh air bypasses the lungs and flows directly into a posterior air sac which extends from the lungs and connects with air spaces in the bones and fills them with air. The other 25% of the air goes directly into the lungs.
Swift (bird) The swifts are a family, Apodidae, of highly aerial birds. They are superficially similar to swallows, but are not closely related to any passerine species. Swifts are placed in the order Apodiformes with hummingbirds. The treeswifts are closely related to the true swifts, but form a separate family, the Hemiprocnidae.