ID / SP; Extinct (†)English NameScientific NameAuthorityBreeding RangeCodeComment Ratites: Ostriches to tinamousScreamers, ducks, geese, swansMegapodes, guans, guineafowl, New World quailPheasants, partridges, francolinsNightjars, Oilbird, potoos, frogmouthsOwlet-nightjars, treeswifts, swiftsHummingbirdsTuracos, bustards, cuckoos, mesites, sandgrousePigeonsFinfoots, flufftails, rails, trumpeters, cranes, LimpkinGrebes, flamingosButtonquail, thick-knees, sheathbills, plovers, oystercatchers, stilts, painted-snipes, jacanas, Plains-wanderer, seedsnipesSandpipers, snipes, Crab-plover, coursersNoddies, skimmers, gulls, terns, skuas, auksKagu, Sunbittern,…

A higher classification of modern birds (June 28, 2019) Improving sets of DNA sequences are revolutionizing the Avian Tree of Life and call for substantial revisions of  the higher classification of birds, especially the sequence of the Orders (Hackett et al. 2008; Cracraft 2013; Jarvis et al. 2014; Prum et al. 2015; Suh et al. 2015;…

Ábalos R & JI Areta. 2009. Historia natural y vocalizaciones del doradito limón (Pseudocolopteryx cf. citreola) en Argentina. Ornitología Neotropical 20: 215–230. Abbott CL & MC Double. 2003a. Phylogeography of Shy and White-capped albatrosses inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences: implications for population history and taxonomy. Molecular Ecology 12: 2747–2758. Abbott CL & MC Double. 2003b.…

AL Accepted lump AS Accepted split ENG English name change EXT Extinct taxon NEW Newly described taxon PHY Phylogenetic issue PL Proposed lump PS Proposed split SEQ Modification in linear sequence SSP Subspecies issue TAX Taxonomic or nomenclatural issue 2024 Apr 14 Post revised link to Multilingual version of IOC 14.1 to include newly added…

  Family (English) Family (Latin) Ostriches Struthionidae Rheas Rheidae Kiwis Apterygidae Cassowaries, Emu Casuariidae Tinamous Tinamidae Screamers Anhimidae Magpie Goose Anseranatidae Ducks, Geese, Swans Anatidae Megapodes Megapodiidae Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans Cracidae Guineafowl Numididae New World Quail Odontophoridae Pheasants & Allies Phasianidae Frogmouths Podargidae Oilbird Steatornithidae Potoos Nyctibiidae Nightjars Caprimulgidae Owlet-nightjars Aegothelidae Treeswifts Hemiprocnidae Swifts Apodidae…