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Types of Birds

There are about 10,000 species of birds.

The types of birds (orders) are:

Anseriformes (ducks, geese, screamers, swans, and waterfowl)
Apodiformes (hummingbirds and swifts)
Caprimulgiformes (nightbirds)
Charadriiformes (shorebirds and relatives)
Ciconiiformes (storks, herons, egrets, ibises, spoonbills, and relatives)
Coliiformes (mousebirds and colies)
Columbiformes (pigeons and doves)
Coraciiformes (kingfishers)
Craciformes (megapodes, curassows)
Cuculiformes (cuckoos, hoatzin, relatives, and turacoss)
Falconiformes (birds of prey)
Galliformes (chickens, fowls)
Gaviiformes (loons)
Gruiformes (coots, cranes, and railss)
Passeriformes (songbirds) - this order contains more than half of all bird species
Pelecaniformes (pelicans and relatives)
Phoenicopteriformes (flamingos)
Piciformes (woodpeckers)
Podicipediformes (grebess)
Procellariiformes (tube-nosed seabirds)
Psittaciformes (parrots)
Sphenisciformes (penguin)
Strigiformes (owls)
Struthioniformes (emus, kiwis, cassowaires, ostriches, and rheas)
Tinamiformes (tinamous)
Trogoniformes (trogons)
Turniciformes (buttonquail)

Wikipedia excerpt for "Bird":

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), vertebrate animals that lay eggs. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most numerous tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Birds range in size from the 5 cm (2 in) Bee Hummingbird to the 2.7 m (8 ft 10 in) Ostrich. The fossil record indicates that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs during the Jurassic period, around 150–200 Ma (million years ago), and the earliest known bird is the Late Jurassic Archaeopteryx, c 155–150 Ma. Most paleontologists regard birds as the only clade of dinosaurs that survived the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event approximately 65.5 Ma.
Many species undertake long distance annual migrations, and many more perform shorter irregular movements. Birds are social; they communicate using visual signals and through calls and songs, and participate in social behaviours including cooperative breeding and hunting, flocking, and mobbing of predators. The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life. Other species have breeding systems that are polygynous ("many females") or, rarely, polyandrous ("many males"). Eggs are usually laid in a nest and incubated by the parents. Most birds have an extended period of parental care after hatching.

See full Wikipedia Bird article