FW 312 Taxonomy

family containing auks, murres, and puffins

family containing ducks, geese, swans

order containing ducks, geese

family containing swifts

order containing kiwis, only birds with no wings

family containing nightjars, swifts, and hummingbirds

order containing nightjars, swifts, hummingbirds

order containing cassowaries and emus

family containing plovers and lapwings

order containing gulls, oystercatchers, sandpipers, etc.

Family of pigeons and doves

order containing pigeons

family containing guans, chachalacas, and currasows

family containing cuckoos, roadrunners, and allies

order containing cuckoos, roadrunners

order containing gamebirds

superorder containing fowl, ducks, and relatives

family containing cranes

order containing rails, coots

family containing oystercatchers

family containing gulls, terns, and skimmers

family containing megapodes, scrubfowl, brushturkey, have big feet

Superorder containing most modern birds

subclass of modern birds

family containing new world quail

Super order containing Ratites and Tinamous

family containing pheasants, grouse, and allies

family containing grebes

order containing grebes

family containing rails, gallinules, and coots

family containing stilts and avocets

order containing rheas, three toes

family containing sandpipers and allies

order containing ostriches, two toes

order containing tinamous, nest on ground

family containing hummingbirds