Bird Classifications


Click in boxes to go to specific bird classifications...

Below is a complete bird classification list...
| Long-legged Waders | Gull-like Birds | Upright-perching Water Birds |
| Duck-like Birds | Sandpiper-like Birds | Chicken-like Marsh Birds |
| Upland Ground Birds | Owls | Hawk-like Birds | Pigeon-like Birds |
| Swallow-like Birds | Tree-clinging Birds | Hummingbirds | Perching Birds |

  • bitterns
  • cranes
  • egrets
  • herons
  • ibeses
  • storks 

Gull-like Birds

  • gulls
  • albatross
  • fulmars
  • shearwaters
  • terns
  • skuas
  • jaegers
  • tropicbirds
  • frigatebirds
  • boobies
  • storm-pesterels   Top
  • Upright-perching Water Birds

  • cormorants
  • auks
  • murres
  • puffins
  • Duck-like Birds

  • diving ducks
  • surface-feeding ducks
  • mergansers
  • coots
  • stiff-tailed ducks
  • whistling ducks
  • pelicans
  • swans
  • geese
  • loons
  • grebes   Top
  • Sandpiper-like Birds

  • plovers
  • sandpipers
  • phalaropes
  • oystercatchers
  • avocets
  • stilts
  • Chicken-like Marsh Birds

  • rails
  • Upland Ground Birds

  • nightjars
  • grouse
  • roadrunners
  • pheasants
  • quail
  • partridges
  • turkeys
  • Owls

  • true owls
  • barn owls
  • Hawk-like Birds

  • ospreys
  • caracaras
  • vultures
  • hawks
  • falcons
  • harriers
  • kites
  • eagles   Top
  • Pigeon-like Birds

  • pigeons
  • doves
  • Swallow-like Birds

  • swallows
  • swifts
  • Tree-clinging Birds

  • woodpeckers
  • nuthatches
  • creepers
  • Hummingbirds

  • hummingbirds    Top
  • Perching Birds

  • becards
  • blackbirds
  • buntings
  • cardinals
  • cuckoos
  • crows
  • dippers
  • finches
  • flycatchers
  • gnatcatchers
  • grosbeaks
  • jays
  • kingfishers
  • larks
  • magpies
  • meadowlarks
  • mockingbirds
  • orioles
  • parrots
  • pipits
  • ravens
  • shrikes
  • silky
  • sparrows
  • starlings
  • tanagers
  • thrashers
  • trogons
  • thrushes
  • titmice
  • vireos
  • wagtails
  • waxwings
  • weaver
  • wood
  • warblers
  • wrens
  • wrentits   Top

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