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Aves, † = Extinct taxa, Some of my favorite birds have smiley faces around…
Aves
Neognathae
Neoaves
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Columbaves
Columbimorphae
Columbiformes
Columbidae (Pigeons, Doves and Dodos †)
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Otidimorphae
Cuculiformes
Cuculidae (Cuckoos, Roadrunners & Malikohas)
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Cuculinae
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Passerea
Elementaves
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Gruimorphae
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Charadriiformes
Charadrii
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Strisores
Caprimulgiformes
Caprimulgidae (Nightjars, Poorwills & Nighthawks)
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Vanescaves
Nyctibiiformes
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Phaethoquornithes
Eurypigimorphae
Phaethorniformes
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Eurypygiformes
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Aequornithes
Gaviiformes
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Feraequornithes
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Telluraves (Core Landbirds, including: Birds of Prey, Parrots and Passerines)
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Pangalloanserae
Pangalliformes
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Galliformes
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Phasiani
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Phasianoidea
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Palaeognathae
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Notopalaeognathae
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Novaeratitae
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Casuariiformes
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Dromaiidae (Emus, but are sometimes considered to be part of Cassuariidae)
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Some of my favorite birds have smiley faces around them, try and find them all :)
Taxonomy: Basically how animals are classified etc, and is set into different ranks in a hierarchical system. The class Aves is the clade that includes all the avian dinosaurs that we have today!!
The suffix "-oidea" refers to a superfamily, which is usually composed of several different families that are closely related to one another. The suffixes "-idae" refers to a family, while "-inae" refers to a subfamily within a family. "-ini" refers to a tribe within a subfamily, and "-ina" refers to a subtribe within a tribe. These are just ways to separate and classify different organisms and see which are most closely related to one another.
A polytomy is an unresolved node in a phylogeny, and it just means that the relationships between organisms are not clearly defined.