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.
Restless flycatcher in the downstroke of flapping flight
Portrait of a bald eagle , showing its strongly hooked beak and the cere covering the base of the beak. Eagles, Old World vultures, secretary-birds, hawks, harriers, etc.
Landing mallard drake Waterfowl
Purple-throated carib feeding at a flowerSwifts, treeswifts and hummingbirds
Hornbills, hoopoes, and wood-hoopoes
A Western red-billed hornbill .
Nightjars, nighthawks, potoos, oilbirds, frogmouths and owlet-nightjars
The Madagascan nightjar is restricted to the islands of Madagascar and the Seychelles.
Red-legged seriema , Cariama cristata
Cassowaries and emus
Southern cassowary
New World vultures
American black vultures on a horse carcass
Plovers, crab plovers, lapwings, seagulls, puffins, auks, sandpipers, buttonquails, stilts, avocets, ibisbills, woodcocks, skuas, etc.
European herring gull
Storks, openbills, and jabiru
Marabou stork at Etosha National Park in Namibia
Mousebirds
Blue-naped mousebird (Urocolius macrourus)
Pigeons and doves
Rock dove in flight
Rollers, bee eaters, todies, kingfishers, etc.
Like many forest-living kingfishers, the yellow-billed kingfisher often nests in arboreal termite nests.
Cuckoos, anis, etc.
Some species, like the Asian emerald cuckoo (Chrysococcyx maculatus ) exhibit iridescent plumage.
Sunbitterns and kagu
The sunbittern will open its wings to display two large eye spots when threatened
Falcons and caracara
The laughing falcon is a snake-eating specialist
Gamebirds
Despite its distinct appearance, the wild turkey is actually a very close relative of pheasants
Red-throated loon (G. stellata ), the smallest living Gavia species . Some Miocene members of this genus were smaller still.
Cranes, crakes, rails, wood-rails, fluftais, gallinules, limpkin, trumpeters, and finfoots
Rails are one of the most widespread Gruiformes
The cuckoo roller exhibits a pronounced sexual dichromatism in the plumage.
Subdesert mesite , Monias benschi
Turacos and go-away-birds
Great blue turaco Corythaeola cristata
Hoatzin at Lake Sandoval, Peru
Bustards, floricans, etc.
Captive specimen of a male great bustard, showing the characteristic long, beard-like feathers and heavy build.
Clockwise from top right: Palestine sunbird (Cinnyris osea ), blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata ), house sparrow (Passer domesticus ), great tit (Parus major ), hooded crow (Corvus cornix ), southern masked weaver (Ploceus velatus ) Passerines, the "song birds". This is the largest order of birds and contains more than half of all birds.
Family Acanthisittidae
Family Acanthizidae - scrubwrens, thornbills, and gerygones
Family Acrocephalidae - marsh- and tree-warblers, recently split from the Sylviidae
Family Aegithalidae - long-tailed tits or bushtits
Family Aegithinidae
Family Alaudidae - larks
Family Artamidae - woodswallows, butcherbirds, currawongs, and Australian magpie
Family Atrichornithidae
Family Bernieridae - Malagasy warblers, a newly assembled family
Family Bombycillidae
Family Buphagidae
Genus Buphagus Family Calcariidae - longspurs and snow buntings
Family Callaeidae - New Zealand wattlebirds
Family Calyptophilidae
Family Campephagidae - cuckooshrikes and trillers
Family Cardinalidae - cardinals and allies
Family Certhiidae - treecreepers
Family Cettiidae - ground-warblers and allies, recently split from the Sylviidae
Family Chaetopidae
Genus Chaetops Family Chloropseidae
Family Cinclidae
Family Cisticolidae - cisticolas and allies
Family Climacteridae - Australian treecreeper
Family Cnemophilidae - satinbirds
Family Conopophagidae - gnateaters and gnatpittas
Family Corcoracidae - Australian mudnester
Family Corvidae - crows, ravens, and jays
Family Cotingidae - cotingas and allies
Family Dasyornithidae
Genus Dasyornis Family Dicaeidae - flowerpeckers (sunbirds and flowerpeckers, might be included in Passeroidea)
Family Dicruridae
Family Donacobiidae
Genus Donacobius Family Dulidae (tentatively placed here)
Family Elachuridae
Family Emberizidae
Family Erythrocercidae
Family Estrildidae - estrildid finches (waxbills, munias, and allies)
Family Eulacestomidae
Family Eupetidae
Genus Eupetes Family Eurylaimidae - broadbills
Family Formicariidae - Antthrushe
Family Fringillidae - true finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers. (Possibly polyphyletic)
Family Furnariidae - ovenbirds and woodcreepers
Family Grallariidae - antpittas
Family Hirundinidae - swallows and martins
Family Hyliidae - newly proposed for genera currently in other families Family Hyliotidae
Genus Hyliota Family Hypocoliidae
Genus Hypocolius Family Icteridae - grackles, New World blackbirds, and New World orioles
Family Ifritidae
Genus Ifrita Family Irenidae
Genus Irena Family Laniidae - shrikes
Family Leiothrichidae - laughingthrushes and allies
Family Locustellidae - grass-warbler and allies, recently split from the Sylviidae
Family Machaerirhynchidae
Family Macrosphenidae - African warblers such as longbills and crombecs, a recently proposed family whose composition is still uncertain
Family Malaconotidae - puffbacks, bushshrikes, tchagras, boubous, and allies
Family Maluridae - fairywrens, emu-wren, and grasswrens
Family Melampittidae
Family Melanocharitidae - berrypeckers and longbills
Family Melanopareiidae
Family Meliphagidae - honeyeaters
Family Menuridae
Family Mimidae - mockingbirds and thrashers
Family Mitrospingidae
Family Modulatricidae - dapple-throat and allies (sometimes Arcanatoridae)
Family Mohouidae
Family Monarchidae - monarch flycatchers
Family Motacillidae
Family Muscicapidae - Old World flycatchers and chats. (Monophyly needs confirmation)
Family Nectariniidae - sunbirds and spiderhunters
Family Neosittidae
Family Nesospingidae
Family Nicatoridae
Family Notiomystidae
Family Oreoicidae - Australo-Papuan bellbirds
Family Oriolidae - Old World orioles
Family Orthonychidae
Family Pachycephalidae
Family Panuridae
Genus Panurus Family Paradisaeidae - birds-of-paradise
Family Paramythiidae - painted berrypeckers
Family Pardalotidae
Family Paridae - Tits, chickadees, and titmice
Family Parulidae - New World warblers
Family Passerellidae - New World sparrows
Family Passeridae - Old World sparrows
Family Pellorneidae - jungle babblers
Family Petroicidae - Australasian robins
Family Peucedramidae
Family Phaenicophilidae
Family Philepittidae - asities
Family Phylloscopidae - leaf-warblers and allies (recently split from the Sylviidae)
Family Picathartidae
Family Pipridae - manakins
Family Pittidae - pittas
Family Pityriaseidae
Genus Pityriasis Family Platysteiridae - wattle-eyes and relatives (formerly in Passerida , probably paraphyletic)
Family Ploceidae - weavers
Family Pnoepygidae
Family Polioptilidae - gnatcatchers
Family Pomatostomidae - Australo-Papuan babblers
Family Prionopidae - see Vangidae Family Promeropidae
Family Prunellidae
Family Psophodidae
Family Ptiliogonatidae - silky flycatchers (tentatively placed here)
Family Ptilonorhynchidae - bowerbirds
Family Pycnonotidae - bulbuls
Family Regulidae
Family Remizidae - penduline tits (sometimes included in the Paridae)
Family Rhagologidae
Family Rhinocryptidae - tapaculos
Family Rhipiduridae - fantails
Family Rhodinocichlidae
Family Salpornithidae
Genus Salpornis Family Sapayoidae
Genus Sapayoa Family Scotocercidae
Family Sittidae Family Spindalidae
Family Stenostiridae
Family Sturnidae - starlings
Family Sylviidae - sylviid warblers and allies
Genus Chamaea
Genus Chleuasicus
Genus Cholornis
Genus Chrysomma
Genus Conostoma
Genus Fulvetta Alcippe )
Genus Graueria
Genus Horizorhinus
Genus Lioparus Alcippe )
Genus Lioptilus
Genus Moupinia Chrysomma )
Genus Myzornis
Genus Neosuthora
Genus Paradoxornis
Genus Parophasma
Genus Pseudoalcippe Illadopsis )
Genus Psittiparus
Genus Rhopophilus
Genus Sinosuthora
Genus Suthora
Genus Sylvia Family Teretistridae
Family Thamnophilidae - antbirds
Family Thraupidae - tanagers and allies
Family Tichodromadidae
Family Timaliidae - Old World babblers
Family Tityridae - tityras and allies
Family Troglodytidae - wrens
Family Turdidae - thrushes and allies (Monophyly needs confirmation)
Family Tyrannidae - tyrant flycatchers
Family Urocynchramidae
Family Vangidae - vangas, helmetshrikes, and allies
Family Viduidae
Family Vireonidae - vireos and allies
Family Zeledoniidae
Family Zosteropidae - white-eyes
Family Uncertain (This has traditionally been considered a member of the family Pachycephalidae, but recent genetic evidence suggests it should be placed in a monotypic subfamily of the family Bombycillidae, or even its own family, Hylocitreidae)
A brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalis Pelicans, ibises, shoebills, egrets, herons, etc.
Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus subsp. mesonauta) in waters around Trinidad & Tobago
A black-rumped flameback using its tail for support Woodpickers, flickers, toucans, aracaris, motmots, etc.
Diving grebe
Petrels, storm petrels, albatrosses, and diving petrels
The poorly known New Zealand storm petrel was considered extinct for 150 years before being rediscovered in 2003.
Parrots, parakeets, macaws, and cockatoos
Most parrot species are tropical, but a few species, like this austral parakeet , range deeply into temperate zones.
Pallas's sandgrouse in a field in the Gobi Desert
A flock of rhea in Lenschow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae ) feeding young. Like its relatives, a neatly bi-coloured species with a head marking.
Owls
Great horned owl perched on the top of a Joshua tree at evening twilight in the Mojave Desert USA.
A male Somali ostrich in a Kenyan savanna, showing its blueish neck
Boobies, gannets, frigatebirds, cormorants, shags, and darters
Little cormorant Phalacrocorax niger
Great tinamou roosting
Trogons and quetzals
A pair of scarlet-rumped trogons , showing sexual dimorphism in the plumage. The female is on the left, male on the right. 
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