243 families

Bird families of the world

Browse all 243 bird families and 11,017 species, grouped by order, with photos, diet and range.

Accipitriformes

• Kites, Hawks, Eagles 249
• New World Vultures 7
• Osprey 1
• Secretarybird 1

Aegotheliformes

• Owlet-nightjars 10

Anseriformes

• Ducks, Geese, Swans 166
• Magpie Goose 1
• Screamers 3

Apodiformes

• Hummingbirds 366
• Swifts 97
• Treeswifts 4

Apterygiformes

• Kiwis 5

Bucerotiformes

• Hoopoes 2
• Hornbills 62
• Wood Hoopoes 8

Caprimulgiformes

• Nightjars 98

Cariamiformes

• Seriemas 2

Casuariiformes

• Cassowaries, Emu 4

Charadriiformes

• Auks 24
• Buttonquail 18
• Coursers, Pratincoles 17
• Crab-plover 1
• Egyptian Plover 1
• Gulls, Terns, Skimmers 100
• Ibisbill 1
• Jacanas 8
• Magellanic Plover 1
• Oystercatchers 10
• Painted-snipes 3
• Plains-wanderer 1
• Plovers 71
• Sandpipers, Snipes 91
• Seedsnipes 4
• Sheathbills 2
• Skuas 7
• Stilts, Avocets 8
• Stone-curlews, Thick-knees 10

Ciconiiformes

• Storks 20

Coliiformes

• Mousebirds 6

Columbiformes

• Pigeons, Doves 353

Coraciiformes

• Bee-eaters 31
• Ground Rollers 5
• Kingfishers 120
• Motmots 14
• Rollers 13
• Todies 5

Cuculiformes

• Cuckoos 150

Eurypygiformes

• Kagu 1
• Sunbittern 1

Falconiformes

• Caracaras, Falcons 64

Galliformes

• Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans 56
• Guineafowl 8
• Megapodes 21
• New World Quail 35
• Pheasants & Allies 187

Gaviiformes

• Loons 5

Gruiformes

• Cranes 15
• Finfoots 3
• Limpkin 1
• Rails, Crakes & Coots 144
• Trumpeters 6

Leptosomiformes

• Cuckoo-roller 1

Mesitornithiformes

• Mesites 3

Musophagiformes

• Turacos 24

Nyctibiiformes

• Potoos 7

Opisthocomiformes

• Hoatzin 1

Otidiformes

• Bustards 26

Passeriformes

• Accentors 12
• African & Green Broadbills 6
• Antbirds 242
• Antpittas 55
• Antthrushes 12
• Asities 4
• Australasian Babblers 5
• Australasian Robins 53
• Australasian Treecreepers 7
• Australasian Warblers 64
• Australasian Wrens 29
• Australian Mudnesters 2
• Australo-Papuan Bellbirds 3
• Babblers, Scimitar Babblers 54
• Bearded Reedling 1
• Berrypeckers, Longbills 11
• Birds-of-paradise 43
• Black-capped Donacobius 1
• Boatbills 2
• Bowerbirds 20
• Bristlebirds 3
• Bristlehead 1
• Bulbuls 158
• Buntings 44
• Bushshrikes 48
• Bushtits 14
• Cardinals & Allies 52
• Cettia Bush Warblers & Allies 37
• Chat-tanagers 2
• Chats, Old World Flycatchers 336
• Cisticolas & Allies 161
• Cotingas 67
• Crescentchests 4
• Crombecs, African Warblers 21
• Crows, Jays 132
• Cuban Warblers 2
• Cuckooshrikes 99
• Cupwings 4
• Dapple-throat & Allies 3
• Dippers 5
• Drongos 26
• Elachura 1
• Fairy Flycatchers 9
• Fairy-bluebirds 3
• Fantails 4
• Fantails 63
• Figbirds, Old World Orioles, Piopios 38
• Finches, Euphonias 210
• Flowerpeckers 55
• Gnatcatchers 15
• Gnateaters 12
• Goldcrests, Kinglets 6
• Grassbirds & Allies 64
• Greater Antillean Tanagers 1
• Greater Antillean Tanagers 4
• Greater Antillean Tanagers 4
• Ground Babblers 64
• Honeyeaters 195
• Hyliotas 4
• Hylocitrea 2
• Hypocolius 1
• Ifrit 1
• Indigobirds, Whydahs 20
• Ioras 4
• Jayshrike 1
• Jewel-babblers, Quail-thrushes 11
• Larks 92
• Laughingthrushes & Allies 148
• Leaf Warblers 81
• Leafbirds 13
• Logrunners 3
• Longspurs, Snow Buntings 6
• Lyrebirds 2
• Manakins 53
• Melampittas 2
• Mitrospingid Tanagers 4
• Mockingbirds, Thrashers 34
• Monarchs 104
• Mottled Berryhunter 1
• New World Sparrows 146
• New World Warblers 123
• New Zealand Wattlebirds 4
• New Zealand Wrens 2
• Nicators 3
• Nuthatches 32
• Old World Sparrows, Snowfinches 43
• Olive Warbler 1
• Oropendolas, New World Orioles, Blackbirds 114
• Ovenbirds 329
• Oxpeckers 2
• Painted Berrypeckers 3
• Palmchat 1
• Pardalotes 4
• Penduline Tits 11
• Pittas 48
• Ploughbill 1
• Przevalski's Finch 1
• Rail-babbler 1
• Reed Warblers & Allies 54
• Rockfowl 2
• Rockjumpers 2
• Sapayoa 1
• Satinbirds 4
• Scrubbirds 2
• Shrikes 33
• Shriketits 3
• Silky-flycatchers 4
• Sittellas 3
• Starlings, Rhabdornises 124
• Stitchbird 1
• Sugarbirds 2
• Sunbirds 147
• Swallows, Martins 89
• Sylviid Warblers & Parrotbills 69
• Tanagers & Allies 408
• Tapaculos 63
• Tetrakas & Allies 11
• Thrush-tanager 1
• Thrushes 177
• Tits, Chickadees 62
• Tityras, Becards & Allies 49
• Treecreepers 9
• Typical Broadbills 12
• Tyrant Flycatchers, Calyptura 449
• Vangas & Allies 40
• Vireos, Greenlets, Shrike-babblers 65
• Wagtails, Pipits 66
• Wattle-eyes, Batises 34
• Waxbills, Munias & Allies 141
• Waxwings 3
• Weavers, Widowbirds 124
• Whipbirds 5
• Whistlers & Allies 52
• White-eyes 137
• Whiteheads 3
• Woodswallows, Butcherbirds & Allies 24
• Wrens 93
• Wrenthrush 1

Pelecaniformes

• Hamerkop 1
• Herons, Bitterns 67
• Ibises, Spoonbills 35
• Pelicans 8
• Shoebill 1

Phaethontiformes

• Tropicbirds 3

Phoenicopteriformes

• Flamingos 6

Piciformes

• African Barbets 53
• Asian Barbets 35
• Honeyguides 16
• Jacamars 19
• New World Barbets 18
• Puffbirds 38
• Toucan Barbets 2
• Toucans 50
• Woodpeckers 253

Podargiformes

• Frogmouths 14

Podicipediformes

• Grebes 20

Procellariiformes

• Albatrosses 22
• Austral Storm Petrels 9
• Northern Storm Petrels 18
• Petrels, Shearwaters, Diving Petrels 96

Psittaciformes

• Cockatoos 21
• New Zealand Parrots 3
• Parrots 380

Pterocliformes

• Sandgrouse 16

Rheiformes

• Rheas 3

Sphenisciformes

• Penguins 18

Steatornithiformes

• Oilbird 1

Strigiformes

• Barn Owls 16
• Owls 222

Struthioniformes

• Ostriches 2

Suliformes

• Anhingas, Darters 4
• Cormorants, Shags 34
• Frigatebirds 5
• Gannets, Boobies 10

Tinamiformes

• Tinamous 47

Trogoniformes

• Trogons 43