List of birds of North America

The first edition of the Check-list of North American Birds of the American Ornithologists Union, published in 1886

The lists of birds in the light blue box below are divided by biological family. The lists are based on The AOU Check-list of North American Birds of the American Ornithologists Union^[1] supplemented with checklists from Panama, Greenland, Bermuda and Trinidad and Tobago. It includes the birds of Greenland, Canada, the United States (excluding Hawaii), Mexico, Central America, Bermuda, and the Caribbean Islands including offshore islands of Colombia and Venezuela.

Taxonomy

The taxonomic treatment^[2] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOU's (1998) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds. The AOU's Committee on Classification and Nomenclature, the body responsible for maintaining and updating the Check-list, "strongly and unanimously continues to endorse the biological species concept (BSC), in which species are considered to be genetically cohesive groups of populations that are reproductively isolated from other such groups" (AOU 1998). The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy is an alternative phylogenetic arrangement based on DNA-DNA hybridization.

List of birds of North America

Anseriformes	Geese, ducks, swans and screamers

Tinamiformes	Tinamous

Galliiformes	Curassows, guans, guineafowls, quails, grouse and turkeys

Procellariiformes	Albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels

Suliformes	Frigatebirds, boobies, gannets, cormorants and darters

Pelicaniformes	Pelicans, bitterns, herons, egrets, ibises and spoonbills

Accipitriformes	Ospreys, hawks, eagles and kites

Gruiformes	Rails, gallinules, coots, sungrebe, limpkin and cranes

Charadriiformes	Thick-knees, lapwings, plovers, oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, jacanas, sandpipers, pratincoles, gulls, terns, skimmers, skuas, auks, murres and puffins

Falconiformes	Caracaras and falcons

Columbiformes	Pigeons and doves

Psittaciformes	Lorikeets, parakeets, macaws and parrots

Cuculiformes	Cuckoos, roadrunners and anis

Strigiformes	Owls

Caprimulgiformes	Nightjars, potoos and oilbird

Apodiformes	Swifts and hummingbirds

Coraciiformes	Todies, motmots and kingfishers

Piciformes	Puffbirds, jacamars, barbets, toucans, woodpeckers, sapsuckers and flickers

Passeriformes	Sapayoa, ovenbirds, antbirds, antpittas, tapaculos, flycatchers, tityras, cotingas, manakins, shrikes, vireos, jays, crows, magpies, ravens, larks, swallows, martins, chickadees, titmice, tits, nuthatches, treecreepers, wrens, gnatcatchers, dippers, bulbuls, kinglets, warblers, thrushes, mockingbirds, thrashers, starlings, mynas, accentors, wagtails, pipits, waxwings, longspurs, bananaquit, tanagers, saltators, sparrows, towhees, juncos, cardinals, grosbeaks, blackbirds, meadowlarks, cowbirds, grackles, orioles, finches, weavers and whydahs

Other orders	Loons, grebes, flamingos, penguins, tropicbirds, storks, New world vultures, sunbittern, trogons and hoopoes

References

↑ "The AOU Check-list of North American Birds, 7th Edition". The American Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 12 February 2015. This publication is the official source on the taxonomy of birds found in North and Middle America, including adjacent islands.
↑ Clements, James F. (2000). Birds of the World: A Checklist (fifth and supplements up to July, 2005 ed.). Vista, California: Ibis Publishing. ISBN 0-934797-16-1.

External links

The AOU Check-list of North American Birds - American Ornithologists Union
Guide to North American Birds - National Audubon Society

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List of birds of North America

Taxonomy

See also

References

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