English > bird family: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | A family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings. |
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| Member of | Vertebrata, subphylum Vertebrata, Craniata, subphylum Craniata | fishes |
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| Narrower | Accipitridae, family Accipitridae | hawks |
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| Aepyornidae, family Aepyornidae | coextensive with the order Aepyorniformes |
| Alaudidae, family Alaudidae | Larks |
| Alcedinidae, family Alcedinidae | kingfishers |
| Alcidae, family Alcidae | web-footed diving seabirds of northern seas |
| Anatidae, family Anatidae | swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip |
| Anhimidae, family Anhimidae | screamers |
| Anhingidae, family Anhingidae | snakebirds |
| Anserinae, subfamily Anserinae | Used in some classifications for the swans |
| Apodidae, family Apodidae | swifts |
| Apterygidae, family Apterygidae | coextensive with the order Apterygiformes |
| Ardeidae, family Ardeidae | herons |
| Artamidae, family Artamidae | wood swallows |
| Atrichornithidae, family Atrichornithidae | scrubbirds |
| Balaenicipitidae, family Balaenicipitidae | shoebills |
| Bombycillidae, family Bombycillidae | A family of birds of the suborder Oscines |
| Bucconidae, family Bucconidae | puffbirds |
| Bucerotidae, family Bucerotidae | hornbills |
| Burhinidae, family Burhinidae | large wading birds resembling the plovers |
| Capitonidae, family Capitonidae | barbets |
| Caprimulgidae, family Caprimulgidae | goatsuckers |
| Carduelinae, subfamily Carduelinae | Used in some classifications for a subgroup of finches |
| Cariamidae, family Cariamidae | Crane-like South American wading birds |
| Casuaridae, family Casuaridae | A family of large ostrich-like birds including cassowaries |
| Cathartidae, family Cathartidae | condors |
| Certhiidae, family Certhiidae | creepers |
| Charadriidae, family Charadriidae | plover family |
| Ciconiidae, family Ciconiidae | storks |
| Cinclidae, family Cinclidae | water ouzels |
| Coerebidae, family Coerebidae, Dacninae, family Dacninae | The honeycreepers |
| Columbidae, family Columbidae | doves and pigeons |
| Coraciidae, family Coraciidae | rollers |
| Corvidae, family Corvidae | crow |
| Cotingidae, family Cotingidae | cotingas |
| Cracidae, family Cracidae | curassows |
| Cracticidae, family Cracticidae | Australian birds formerly included in the family Laniidae |
| Cuculidae, family Cuculidae | Includes cuckoo |
| Dendrocolaptidae, family Dendrocolaptidae | woodhewers or woodcreepers |
| Dinornithidae, family Dinornithidae | moas |
| Diomedeidae, family Diomedeidae | albatrosses |
| Drepanididae, family Drepanididae | Hawaiian honeycreepers |
| Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizinae | buntings and some New World sparrows |
| Eurylaimidae, family Eurylaimidae | coextensive with the suborder Eurylaimi |
| Falconidae, family Falconidae | A family of birds of the order Falconiformes |
| Formicariidae, family Formicariidae | antbirds |
| Fregatidae, family Fregatidae | frigate birds |
| Fringillidae, family Fringillidae | finches |
| Furnariidae, family Furnariidae | e.g. ovenbirds |
| Galbulidae, family Galbulidae | jacamars |
| Garrulinae, subfamily Garrulinae | subfamily of the crow family |
| Gavidae, family Gavidae | loon family |
| Glareolidae, family Glareolidae | (Old World shorebirds) pratincoles and coursers |
| Gruidae, family Gruidae | cranes |
| Haematopodidae, family Haematopodidae | oystercatchers |
| Hemiprocnidae, family Hemiprocnidae | tree swifts |
| Hirundinidae, family Hirundinidae | swallows and martins |
| Hydrobatidae, family Hydrobatidae | storm petrels |
| Icteridae, family Icteridae | American orioles |
| Indicatoridae, family Indicatoridae | honey guides |
| Irenidae, family Irenidae | A family of birds of the suborder Oscines |
| Laniidae, family Laniidae | shrikes |
| Laridae, family Laridae | gull family |
| Loriinae, subfamily Loriinae | lories |
| Malaconotinae, subfamily Malaconotinae | An African bush shrikes |
| Megapodiidae, family Megapodiidae | megapodes |
| Meleagrididae, family Meleagrididae | turkeys and some extinct forms |
| Meliphagidae, family Meliphagidae | honey eaters |
| Menuridae, family Menuridae | lyrebirds |
| Merginae, subfamily Merginae | mergansers and closely related diving birds |
| Meropidae, family Meropidae | Bee-eaters |
| Mimidae, family Mimidae | sometimes considered a subfamily of Troglodytidae |
| Momotidae, family Momotidae | A family of birds of the order Coraciiformes |
| Motacillidae, family Motacillidae | pipits and wagtails |
| Muscicapidae, family Muscicapidae | Old World (true) flycatchers |
| Musophagidae, family Musophagidae | touracos |
| Numididae, subfamily Numididae, Numidinae, subfamily Numidinae | guinea fowl and related birds of Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar |
| Opisthocomidae, family Opisthocomidae | Comprising the hoatzins |
| Oriolidae, family Oriolidae | Old World orioles |
| Otididae, family Otididae | bustards |
| Pandionidae, family Pandionidae | ospreys |
| Paradisaeidae, family Paradisaeidae | birds of paradise |
| Paridae, family Paridae | titmice and chickadees |
| Parulidae, family Parulidae | New World warblers |
| Passeridae, family Passeridae | true sparrows |
| Pelecanidae, family Pelecanidae | pelicans |
| Pelecanoididae, family Pelecanoididae | diving petrels |
| Perdicidae, subfamily Perdicidae, Perdicinae, subfamily Perdicinae | Old World partridges |
| Phaethontidae, family Phaethontidae | tropicbirds |
| Phalacrocoracidae, family Phalacrocoracidae | cormorants |
| Phalaropidae, family Phalaropidae | phalaropes |
| Phasianidae, family Phasianidae | pheasants |
| Phoenicopteridae, family Phoenicopteridae | flamingos |
| Phoeniculidae, family Phoeniculidae | wood hoopoes |
| Picidae, family Picidae | woodpeckers |
| Pipridae, family Pipridae | manakins |
| Pittidae, family Pittidae | pittas |
| Plataleidae, family Plataleidae | spoonbills |
| Ploceidae, family Ploceidae | weaverbirds |
| Podargidae, family Podargidae | frogmouths |
| Podicipedidae, family Podicipedidae | coextensive with the order Podicipitiformes |
| Procellariidae, family Procellariidae | petrels |
| Prunellidae, family Prunellidae | hedge sparrow |
| Psittacidae, family Psittacidae | coextensive with the order Psittaciformes |
| Psophiidae, family Psophiidae | trumpeters |
| Pteroclididae, family Pteroclididae | sandgrouses |
| Ptilonorhynchidae, family Ptilonorhynchidae | bowerbirds |
| Rallidae, family Rallidae | rails |
| Ramphastidae, family Ramphastidae | toucans |
| Raphidae, family Raphidae | Extinct dodos and solitaires |
| Recurvirostridae, family Recurvirostridae | long-legged shorebirds |
| Rheidae, family Rheidae | A family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes |
| Rynchopidae, family Rynchopidae | coextensive with the genus Rynchops |
| Sagittariidae, family Sagittariidae | secretary birds |
| Scolopacidae, family Scolopacidae | sandpiper family |
| Sittidae, family Sittidae | nuthatches |
| Spheniscidae, family Spheniscidae | Comprising all existing penguins |
| Steatornithidae, family Steatornithidae | oilbirds |
| Stercorariidae, family Stercorariidae | jaegers and skuas |
| Sterninae, subfamily Sterninae | terns |
| Strigidae, family Strigidae | A family of nocturnal birds of the order Strigiformes |
| Struthionidae, family Struthionidae | tall terrestrial / terrestrial birds |
| Sturnidae, family Sturnidae | Old World starlings |
| Sulidae, family Sulidae | gannets and boobies |
| Sylviidae, family Sylviidae | In some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae |
| Sylviinae, subfamily Sylviinae | Alternative classification for the Old World warblers |
| Tetraonidae, family Tetraonidae | grouse |
| Thraupidae, family Thraupidae | tanagers |
| Threskiornithidae, family Threskiornithidae, family Ibidiidae | ibises |
| Timaliidae, family Timaliidae | babblers |
| Tinamidae, family Tinamidae | Comprising the tinamous |
| Todidae, family Todidae | A family of birds of the order Coraciiformes |
| Trochilidae, family Trochilidae | hummingbirds |
| Troglodytidae, family Troglodytidae | wrens |
| Trogonidae, family Trogonidae | coextensive with the order Trogoniformes |
| Turdidae, family Turdidae | thrushes |
| Turdinae, subfamily Turdinae | Alternative classification for the thrushes |
| Turnicidae, family Turnicidae | small Old World birds resembling but not related to true quail |
| Tyrannidae, superfamily Tyrannidae | New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada |
| Tytonidae, family Tytonidae | Comprising only the barn owls |
| Upupidae, family Upupidae | hoopoes |
| Vireonidae, family Vireonidae | small insectivorous American songbirds |
| Xenicidae, family Xenicidae, Acanthisittidae, family Acanthisittidae | Alternative names for the family comprising the New Zealand wrens |
| Broader | family | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera |
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| Spanish | aves |
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| Catalan | aus, família d'aus |
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