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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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Birds by common name" The following 180 pages are in this category, out of 180 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This category is for articles which discuss the use of a common (vernacular) name shared by multiple species of birds which do not correspond to a taxon. Note: Disambiguation pages are categorized in Category:Bird common name disambiguation pages .
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 ...
List of parrots. Appearance. Parrots, also known as psittacines ( / ˈsɪtəsaɪnz / ), [1] [2] are the 402 species of birds that make up the order Psittaciformes, found in most tropical and subtropical regions, of which 387 are extant. The order is subdivided into three superfamilies: the Psittacoidea ("true" parrots), the Cacatuoidea ...
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.
Great horned owl perched on the top of a Joshua tree at evening twilight in the Mojave Desert USA. Family Strigidae - true owls. Genus Aegolius – saw-whet owls. Genus Asio – eared owls. Genus Athene. Genus Bubo – horned owls (paraphyletic with Nyctea, Ketupa, and Scotopelia) Genus Ciccaba.