English > Aves: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | (ornithology) the class of birds. |
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| Synonym | class Aves |
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| Category | ornithology | The branch of zoology that studies birds |
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| Member of | Vertebrata, subphylum Vertebrata, Craniata, subphylum Craniata | fishes |
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| Members | Aepyorniformes, order Aepyorniformes | huge extinct flightless birds |
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| Anseriformes, order Anseriformes | ducks |
| Apodiformes, order Apodiformes | swifts |
| Apterygiformes, order Apterygiformes | A ratite bird order |
| Archaeornithes, subclass Archaeornithes | Primitive reptile-like fossil birds of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous |
| Caprimulgiformes, order Caprimulgiformes | goatsuckers |
| Casuariiformes, order Casuariiformes | A ratite bird order |
| Charadriiformes, order Charadriiformes | large diverse order of aquatic birds found along seacoasts and inland waters |
| Ciconiiformes, order Ciconiiformes | Order of chiefly tropical marsh-dwelling fish-eating wading birds with long legs and bills and (except for flamingos) unwebbed feet |
| Columbiformes, order Columbiformes | sand grouse |
| Coraciiformes, order Coraciiformes | rollers |
| Cuculiformes, order Cuculiformes | cuckoos |
| Dinornithiformes, order Dinornithiformes | A ratite bird order |
| Falconiformes, order Falconiformes | chiefly diurnal carnivorous birds having hooked beaks and long talons with opposable hind toe |
| Galliformes, order Galliformes | pheasants |
| Gaviiformes, order Gaviiformes | large aquatic birds |
| Gruiformes, order Gruiformes | inland marsh-dwelling birds with long legs and necks and bills that wade in water in search of food |
| Insessores, order Insessores, perching bird, percher | A bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches) |
| Passeriformes, order Passeriformes | largest order of birds comprising about half the known species |
| Pelecaniformes, order Pelecaniformes | pelicans |
| Picariae, order Picariae | Term used in some classifications as nearly equivalent to the order Coraciiformes |
| Piciformes, order Piciformes | woodpeckers |
| Podicipitiformes, order Podicipitiformes, Podicipediformes, order Podicipediformes, Colymbiformes, order Colymbiformes | grebes |
| Procellariiformes, order Procellariiformes | petrels |
| Psittaciformes, order Psittaciformes | An order of birds including parrots and amazons and cockatoos and lorikeets and lories and macaws and parakeets |
| Raptores, order Raptores | Term used in former classifications |
| Ratitae, superorder Ratitae | Used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders |
| Rheiformes, order Rheiformes | A ratite bird order |
| Sphenisciformes, order Sphenisciformes | penguins |
| Strigiformes, order Strigiformes | owls |
| Struthioniformes, order Struthioniformes | A ratite bird order |
| Trogoniformes, order Trogoniformes | trogons |
| bird | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
| genus Protoavis | Extinct primitive birds of the Triassic period |
| young bird | A bird that is still young |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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| Spanish | aves |
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| Catalan | Aves |
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