Morphological Bird Classification System
- Class
- Subclass
- Superorder
- Order (# genera / # species)
- Aves
- Archeornithes (Archaeopteryx)
Neornithes
- Paleognathae
- Tinamiformes (9 genera / 47 species - tinamous)
Rheiformes (2/2 - rheas)
Struthioniformes (1/1 – ostrich)
Casuariiformes (1/3 - cassowaries, emus)
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Sphenisciformes (6/18 – penguins)
Gaviiformes (1/5 – loons)
Podicipediformes (5/20 – grebes)
Procellariiformes (23/104 – albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels, storm-petrels)
Pelecaniformes (10/62 – frigatebirds, gannets, cormorants, pelicans, darters, tropicbirds)
Ciconiiformes (47/119 – herons, storks, ibises, hammerkop, flamingos)
Anseriformes (45/153 – screamers, swans, geese, ducks)
Falconiformes (81/287 – New World vultures, hawks, eagles, falcons, caracaras, osprey)
Galliformes (78/268 – currasows, guineaflowl, pheasants, quail, grouse, turkeys)
Gruiformes (81/215 – rails, sunbittern, sungrebe, roatelos, kagu, buttonquail, cranes, limpkin, trumpeters, seriemas, bustards)
Charadriiformes (75/332 – jacanas, painted-snipes, woodcocks, oystercatchers, plovers, sandpipers, phalaropes, avocets, gulls, terns, skuas, jaegers, skimmers, auks, murres, puffins)
Columbiformes (42/307 – dodos, solitaires (both now extinct), sandgrouse, pigeons, doves)
Psittaciformes (81/339 – parrots, macaws, lories, other parrot allies)
Cuculiformes (43/140 – turacos, cuckoos, coucals, roadrunners, anis)
Strigiformes (30/145 – barn owls, typical owls)
Caprimulgiformes (24/95 – oilbird, frogmouths, potoos, nighthawks, nightjars)
Apodiformes (135/422 – swifts)
Coliiformes (1/6 – colies [mouse-birds])
Trogoniformes (8/34 – trogons, quetzal)
Coraciiformes (44/194 – kingfishers, todies, motmots, bee-eaters, rollers, hoopoe, hornbills, ground rollers)
Piciformes (62/387 – jacamars, puffbirds, barbets, honey-guides, toucans, woodpeckers, piculets, wrynecks)
Passeriformes (1089/5076 – broadbills, woodcreepers, ovenbirds, antbirds, tapaculos, cotingas, manakins, flycatchers, sharpbills, plantcutters, pittas, asities, New Zealand wrens, lyrebirds, larks, swallows, drongos, crow allies, bowerbirds, birds-of-paradise, titmice, nuthatches, creepers, babblers, bulbuls, dippers, wrens, thrashers, thrushes, Old World warblers, Old World flycatchers, accentors, pipits, waxwings, shrikes, starlings, sunbirds, white-eyes, vireos, Hawaiian honeycreepers, wood warblers, tanagers, finches, weaver finches, cardinals, grosbeaks, Old World sparrows)
This page was updated in June 2006.
