Birds

Dr. Seuss Birds Part 1

Big Billed Structure Sharp Bills Good big biilled birds Turtle Bills Thickbills Goat Bills Columbiformes (pigeons) Mirandornithes (flamingos and grebes) Strisores (hummingbirds, swifts) Insolitavis Cuculiformes (cuckoos) Otididae (bustards) Gruiformes (rails and cranes) Musophagidae (turacos) Aequornithes (loons, penguins, herons, pelicans, storks, etc) Litoritelluraves Charadriiformes (shorebirds) Telluraves Afroaves Accipitriformes Strigiformes (owls) Coliiformes (mousebirds) Eucavitaves Leptosomatiformes (cuckoo roller) Cavitaves Trogoniformes(trogons) Picocoraciae Bucerotiformes(hornbills, hoopoe and wood hoopoes) Coraciformes Piciformes Australavis Cariamae (seriemas) Eufalconimorphae Falconidae(falcons) Psittacopasserae Psittaciformes(parrots) Passeriformes(songbirds and kin)

|- | style="border:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:top;"| |} Cladogram of modern bird relationships based on Kimball, R.T. et al. (2013) and Yury, T. et al.(2013).