Snakebunk – Animalia

Aves

This class contains the bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying and vertebrate animals we know as birds.

Names and taxonomy follow IOC World Bird List.

Orders

• Anseriformes, ducks, geese, and swans
• Galliformes, turkeys, grouse, chickens, quails and pheasants
• Apodiformes, swifts
• Otidiformes, bustards
• Cuculiformes, cuckoos
• Columbiformes, doves and pigeons
• Gruiformes, cranes and crane like birds
• Podicipediformes, fresh water diving birds
• Charadriiformes, shorebirds, gulls and auks
• Gaviiformes, loons
• Procellariformes, seabirds
• Ciconiiformes, storks
• Suliformes, cormorants and frigatebirds
• Pelecaniformes, medium-sized and large water birds
• Accipitriformes, birds of prey such as hawks, eagles and vultures (but not the falcons)
• Strigiformes, owls
• Bucerotiformes, hoopoes
• Coraciiformes, bee-eaters, rollers and king fishers
• Piciformes, woodpeckers and close relatives
• Falconiformes, falcons
• Psittaciformes, parrots
• Passeriformes, passerines (the largest of all bird orders, contains more than half of the species)