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Bird Classification. There are more than 30 Groups or Orders of Birds with more than 10,000 different species worldwide. Below are a sampling of some 14 Orders of birds. The different orders are separated by different traits.
International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 1: Non-passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.; SACC. 2006. A classification of the bird species of South America. Available at: #http://www.museum.lsu.edu/~Remsen/SACCBaseline.htm#. 22678073 2 3 1 Rhea americana araneipes ...
Let us look at a complete example of bird classification. The African fish eagle is classified as follows : Kingdom: Animalia. Phylum: Chordata. Class: Aves. Order: Ciconiiformes. Family: Accipitridae. Genus: Haliaeetus. Species: Vocifer. The above is just a basic explanation of the classification of birds.
Cover birds and have students describe on paper the bird from memory, noting colors, markings, etc. Pass out worksheet 1 and go over what field marks are important to look for when identifying birds.
The revised sequence of Orders below is a step towards our goal of representing the evolutionary history of the major groups of birds. Species totals in parentheses are tallied from the IOC World Bird List, 12.1.
Bird Classification Lecture and Handouts. There are more than 30 Groups or Orders of Birds with more than 10,000 different species worldwide. Below are a sampling of some 14 Orders of birds. The different orders are separated by different traits. See if you can tell how the following orders of birds are similar and different.
Birds of the World (BOW) is a powerful resource for understanding the diversity of avian life. BOW uses a single taxonomy, the eBird/Clements Checklist (Clements), across all of its content. As is true of most other major global avian checklists, Clements follows the Biological Species Concept (BSC).
