List of bird genera


List of bird genera concerns the chordata class of aves or birds, characterised by feathers, a beak with no teeth, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, and a high metabolic rate.
in the downstroke of flapping flight

[Accipitriformes]

Eagles, Old World vultures, secretary-birds, hawks, harriers, etc.
Waterfowl
Swifts, treeswifts and hummingbirds
Hornbills, hoopoes, and wood-hoopoes
.
Nightjars, nighthawks, potoos, oilbirds, frogmouths and owlet-nightjars
is restricted to the islands of Madagascar and the Seychelles.
Cassowaries and emus
New World vultures
s on a horse carcass
Plovers, crab plovers, lapwings, seagulls, puffins, auks, sandpipers, buttonquails, stilts, avocets, ibisbills, woodcocks, skuas, etc.
Storks, openbills, and jabiru
in Namibia
Mousebirds

Pigeons and doves
in flight
Rollers, bee eaters, todys, kingfishers, etc.
often nests in arboreal termite nests.
Cuckoos, anis, etc.
exhibit iridescent plumage.
Sunbitterns and kagu
Falcons and caracara
is a snake-eating specialist
Gamebirds
is actually a very close relative of pheasants
Cranes, crakes, rails, wood-rails, fluftais, gallinules, limpkin, trumpeters, and finfoots
Turacos and go-away-birds

Corythaeola cristata
Bustards, floricans, etc.
Passerines, the "song birds". This is the largest order of birds and contains more than half of all birds.
Pelicans, ibises, shoebills, egrets, herons, etc.
Woodpickers, flickers, toucans, aracaris, motmots, etc.
Petrels, storm petrels, albatrosses, and diving petrels
was considered extinct for 150 years before being rediscovered in 2003.
Parrots, parakeets, macaws, and cockatoos
, range deeply into temperate zones.
Owls
perched on the top of a Joshua tree at evening twilight in the Mojave Desert USA.
Boobies, gannets, frigatebirds, cormorants, shags, and darters
Phalacrocorax niger
Trogons and quetzals
s, showing sexual dimorphism in the plumage. The female is on the left, male on the right.