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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.

Accipitriformes

Eagles, Old World vultures, secretary-birds, hawks, harriers, etc.

Anseriformes

Waterfowl

  • Family Anhimidae – screamers
  • Genus Anhima – horned screamer
  • Genus Chauna
  • Family Anatidae
  • Genus Aix – mandarin duck and wood duck – dabbling ducks or Tadorninae?
  • Genus Alopochen – Egyptian goose and Mascarene shelducks
  • Genus Amazonetta – Brazilian teal
  • Genus Anas – pintails, mallards, etc.
  • Genus Anser – grey geese and white geese
  • Genus Aythya – pochards, scaups, etc.
  • Genus Biziura – musk ducks
  • Genus Branta – black geese
  • Genus Bucephala – goldeneyes
  • Genus Cairina – Muscovy duck and white-winged duck (traditionally dabbling ducks, but may be paraphyletic)
  • Genus Callonetta – ringed teal (dabbling ducks or Tadorninae?)
  • Genus Cereopsis – Cape Barren goose (Anserinae, Tadorninae, or own subfamily?)
  • Genus Chenonetta – maned duck (dabbling ducks or Tadorninae? – includes Euryanas)
  • Genus Chloephaga – sheldgoose
  • Genus Clangula – long-tailed duck
  • Genus Coscoroba – coscoroba swan (Anserinae or same subfamily as Cereopsis?)
  • Genus Cyanochen – blue-winged goose (Tadorninae or more distant clade?)
  • Genus Cygnus – true swans
  • Genus Dendrocygna – whistling ducks
  • Genus Heteronetta – black-headed duck
  • Genus Histrionicus – harlequin duck (includes Ocyplonessa)
  • Genus Hymenolaimus – blue duck
  • Genus Lophodytes – hooded merganser
  • Genus Lophonetta – crested duck
  • Genus Malacorhynchus – pink-eared ducks (Tadorninae, Oxyurinae or Dendrocheninae?)
  • Genus Mareca – wigeons and gadwalls
  • Genus Marmaronetta – marbled duck
  • Genus Melanitta – scoters
  • Genus Merganetta – torrent duck
  • Genus Mergellus – smew
  • Genus Mergus – mergansers
  • Genus Neochen
  • Genus Netta – red-crested pochard and allies
  • Genus Nettapus – pygmy geese
  • Genus Nomonyx – masked duck
  • Genus Oxyura – stiff-tailed ducks
  • Genus Plectropterus – spur-winged goose
  • Genus Polysticta – Steller's eider
  • Genus Pteronetta – Hartlaub's duck
  • Genus Radjah – radjah shelduck
  • Genus Salvadorina – Salvadori's teal
  • Genus Sarkidiornis – comb duck (Tadorninae or closer to dabbling ducks?)
  • Genus Sibirionetta – Baikal teal
  • Genus Somateria – eiders
  • Genus Spatula – shovelers
  • Genus Speculanas – bronze-winged duck
  • Genus Stictonetta – freckled duck
  • Genus Tachyeres – steamer ducks (Tadorninae or closer to dabbling ducks?)
  • Genus Tadorna – shelducks (possibly paraphyletic)
  • Genus Thalassornis – white-backed duck
  • Family Anseranatidae
  • Genus Anseranas

Apodiformes

Swifts, treeswifts and hummingbirds

Apterygiformes

Bucerotiformes

Hornbills, hoopoes, and wood-hoopoes

Caprimulgiformes

Nightjars, nighthawks, potoos, oilbirds, frogmouths and owlet-nightjars

Cariamiformes

Casuariiformes

Cassowaries and emus

Cathartiformes

New World vultures

Charadriiformes

Plovers, crab plovers, lapwings, seagulls, puffins, auks, sandpipers, buttonquails, stilts, avocets, ibisbills, woodcocks, skuas, etc.

Ciconiiformes

Storks, openbills, and jabiru

Coliiformes

Mousebirds

Columbiformes

Pigeons and doves

Coraciiformes

Rollers, bee eaters, todies, kingfishers, etc.

Cuculiformes

Cuckoos, anis, etc.

Eurypygiformes

Sunbitterns and kagu

Falconiformes

Falcons and caracara

  • Family Falconidae
  • Genus Caracara – crested caracaras
  • Genus Daptrius – black caracara
  • Genus Falco – true falcons, hobbies and kestrels
  • Genus Herpetotheres – laughing falcon
  • Genus Ibycter – red-throated caracara (sometimes included in Daptrius)
  • Genus Micrastur – forest falcons
  • Genus Microhierax – typical falconets
  • Genus Milvago – brown caracaras
  • Genus Phalcoboenus – Andean and southern South American caracaras
  • Genus Polihierax – pygmy falcons
  • Genus Spiziapteryx – spot-winged falconet

Galliformes

Gamebirds

Gaviiformes

Gruiformes

Cranes, crakes, rails, wood-rails, fluftais, gallinules, limpkin, trumpeters, and finfoots

Leptosomiformes

Mesitornithiformes

Musophagiformes

Turacos and go-away-birds

Opisthocomiformes

Otidiformes

Bustards, floricans, etc.

Passeriformes

Passerines, the "song birds". This is the largest order of birds and contains more than half of all birds.

Pelecaniformes

Pelicans, ibises, shoebills, egrets, herons, etc.

Phaethontiformes

Phoenicopteriformes

Piciformes

Woodpeckers, flickers, toucans, aracaris, motmots, etc.

Podicipediformes

Procellariiformes

Petrels, storm petrels, albatrosses, and diving petrels

Psittaciformes

Parrots, parakeets, macaws, and cockatoos

Pterocliformes

Rheiformes

Sphenisciformes

Strigiformes

Owls

  • Family Strigidae – true owls
  • Genus Aegolius – saw-whet owls
  • Genus Asio – eared owls
  • Genus Athene
  • Genus Bubo – horned owls (paraphyletic with Nyctea, Ketupa, and Scotopelia)
  • Genus Ciccaba
  • Genus Glaucidium – pygmy owls
  • Genus Jubula – maned owl
  • Genus Lophostrix – crested owl
  • Genus Margarobyas – bare-legged owl
  • Genus Megascops – screech owls
  • Genus Micrathene – elf owl
  • Genus Nesasio – fearful owl
  • Genus Ninox – Asian and Australasian hawk-owls and boobooks
  • Genus Otus – scops owls (probably paraphyletic)
  • Genus Pseudoscops – Jamaican owl
  • Genus Psiloscops – flammulated owl
  • Genus Ptilopsis – white-faced owl
  • Genus Pulsatrix – spectacled owl
  • Genus Pyrroglaux – Palau owl
  • Genus Scotopelia – fishing owls
  • Genus Strix – earless owls
  • Genus Surnia – northern hawk-owl
  • Genus Uroglaux – Papuan hawk-owl
  • Genus Xenoglaux – long-whiskered owlet
  • Family Tytonidae – barn owls
  • Genus Phodilus – bay owls
  • Genus Tyto

Struthioniformes

Suliformes

Boobies, gannets, frigatebirds, cormorants, shags, and darters

Tinamiformes

Trogoniformes

Trogons and quetzals