BIRDS phylogeny (1/2)

FAMILY (bird species)

STRUTHIONIDAE (ostriches)
RHEIDAE (rheas)
APTERYGIDAE (kiwis)
CASUARIIDAE (cassowaries)
CASUARIIDAE (emus)
TINAMIDAE (tinamous)
TINAMIDAE (tinamous)
TINAMIDAE (tinamous)
TINAMIDAE (tinamous)
MEGAPODIIDAE (megapodes)
CRACIDAE (chachalacas)
CRACIDAE (curassows)
NUMIDIDAE (guineafowls)
ODONTOPHORIDAE (New World: quails, wood-quails)
ODONTOPHORIDAE (New World: wood-partridges, bobwhites, quails)
PHASIANIDAE (Asian partridges)
PHASIANIDAE (grouses, turkeys, pheasants)
PHASIANIDAE (peafowls, Old World: fowls, partridges, quails)
ANHIMIDAE (South American screamers)
ANSERANATIDAE (magpie geese)
ANATIDAE (whistling-ducks)
ANATIDAE (geese, swans)
ANATIDAE (sheldgeese, shelducks, sea-ducks)
ANATIDAE (dabbling-ducks)
ANATIDAE (diving-ducks)
CAPRIMULGIDAE (Australasian nightjars)
CAPRIMULGIDAE (Old World nightjars)
CAPRIMULGIDAE (New World nightjars, nighthawks)
STEATORNITHIDAE (oilbirds)
NYCTIBIIDAE (potoos)
PODARGIDAE (frogmouths)
AEGOTHELIDAE (owlet-nightjars)
HEMIPROCNIDAE (treeswifts)
APODIDAE (primitive American swifts)
APODIDAE (swifts, swiftlets, spinetails)
TROCHILIDAE (topazes, jacobins)
TROCHILIDAE (hermits, sicklebills, mangoes, coquettes, brilliants)
TROCHILIDAE (hummingbirds)
MUSOPHAGIDAE (turacos)
MUSOPHAGIDAE (go-away-birds)
OTIDIDAE (bustards)
CUCULIDAE (anis, ground-cuckoos, roadrunners)
CUCULIDAE (couas, coucals)
CUCULIDAE (malkohas, clamators, American cuckoos, ground-cuckoos)
CUCULIDAE (Old World parasitic cuckoos)
MESITORNITHIDAE (mesites)
MESITORNITHIDAE (mesites)
PTEROCLIDAE (sandgrouses)
PTEROCLIDAE (sandgrouses)
COLUMBIDAE (Old World doves and pigeons)
COLUMBIDAE (Old World doves and pigeons)
COLUMBIDAE (American ground-doves)
COLUMBIDAE (New World doves and pigeons)
COLUMBIDAE (New World doves and pigeons)
HELIORNITHIDAE (finfoots)
SAROTHRURIDAE (flufftails)
RALLIDAE (long-billed rails)
RALLIDAE (wood-rails, coots, gallinules, moorhens)
RALLIDAE (crakes, swamphens, waterhens, bushhens)
PSOPHIIDAE (trumpeters)
ARAMIDAE (limpkins)
GRUIDAE (crowned-cranes)
GRUIDAE (cranes)
PHOENICOPTERIDAE (flamingos)
PODICIPEDIDAE (grebes)
BURHINIDAE (thick-knees), CHIONIDAE (sheathbills)
CHARADRIIDAE (plovers, dotterels), PLUVIANIDAE (Egyptian plovers)
HAEMATOPODIDAE (oystercatchers), IBIDORHYNCHIDAE (ibisbills)
RECURVIROSTRIDAE (avocets, stilts)
PEDIONOMIDAE (plains-wanderers), THINOCORIDAE (seedsnipes)
JACANIDAE (jacanas)
ROSTRATULIDAE (painted-snipes)
SCOLOPACIDAE (curlews, godwits)
SCOLOPACIDAE (sandpipers)
SCOLOPACIDAE (snipes)
TURNICIDAE (Old World buttonquails)
GLAREOLIDAE (pratincoles, coursers), DROMADIDAE (crab-plovers)
ALCIDAE (auks, puffins, murrelets), STERCORARIIDAE (skuas, jaegers)
LARIDAE (gulls)
LARIDAE (terns)
LARIDAE (skimmers)
EURYPYGIDAE (sunbittern), RHYNOCHETIDAE (kagu)
PHAETHONTIDAE (tropicbirds)
GAVIIDAE (loons / divers)
SPHENISCIDAE (penguins)
DIOMEDEIDAE (albatrosses)
OCEANITIDAE (southern storm-petrels)
OCEANITIDAE (southern storm-petrels)
HYDROBATIDAE (northern storm-petrels)
PROCELLARIIDAE (fulmars)
PROCELLARIIDAE (shearwaters)
PROCELLARIIDAE (petrels)
PROCELLARIIDAE (prions, diving-petrels)
CICONIIDAE (storks)
CICONIIDAE (adjutants)
FREGATIDAE (frigatebirds)
SULIDAE (boobies, gannets)
ANHINGIDAE (anhingas, darters)
PHALACROCORACIDAE (cormorants)
THRESKIORNITHIDAE (ibises, spoonbills)
ARDEIDAE (herons)
ARDEIDAE (bitterns)
ARDEIDAE (egrets)
SCOPIDAE (hamerkops)
BALAENICIPITIDAE (shoebills)
PELECANIDAE (pelicans)

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40 orders, 244 families, 10911 species
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 BIRDS phylogeny (2/2)
FAMILY (bird species)
OPISTHOCOMIDAE (hoatzins)
CATHARTIDAE (New World vultures: black v., turkey v., yellow-headed v.)
CATHARTIDAE (New World: king-vultures, condors)
SAGITTARIIDAE (secretary-birds)
PANDIONIDAE (ospreys)
ACCIPITRIDAE (kites, honey-buzzards, bearded-vultures, cuckoo-hawks)
ACCIPITRIDAE (Old World vultures, snake-eagles)
ACCIPITRIDAE (eagles, hawks, buzzards, goshawks, sparrowhawks, harriers)
TYTONIDAE (barn-owls)
STRIGIDAE (owls)
COLIIDAE (mousebirds)
COLIIDAE (mousebirds)
LEPTOSOMIDAE (cuckoo-rollers)
TROGONIDAE (trogons)
TROGONIDAE (quetzals)
UPUPIDAE (hoopoes)
PHOENICULIDAE (woodhoopoes)
BUCEROTIDAE (hornbills)
BUCEROTIDAE (ground-hornbills)
MEROPIDAE (bee-eaters)
CORACIIDAE (rollers)
BRACHYPTERACIIDAE (ground-rollers)
TODIDAE (todies)
MOMOTIDAE (motmots)
ALCEDINIDAE (pygmy-kingfishers)
ALCEDINIDAE (kingfishers)
GALBULIDAE (jacamars)
BUCCONIDAE (puffbirds)
BUCCONIDAE (puffbirds)
INDICATORIDAE (honeyguides)
PICIDAE (wrynecks, piculets)
PICIDAE (woodpeckers)
MEGALAIMIDAE (Asian barbets)
LYBIIDAE (African barbets)
CAPITONIDAE (New World barbets)
RAMPHASTIDAE (toucans, aracaris, toucanets)
CARIAMIDAE (red-legged seriemas)
CARIAMIDAE (black-legged seriemas)
FALCONIDAE (forest-falcons)
FALCONIDAE (falcons, kestrels, hobbies, falconets)
FALCONIDAE (black caracaras)
FALCONIDAE (caracaras)
STRIGOPIDAE (New Zealand parrots: kea, kakapo)
CACATUIDAE (cockatoos, corellas)
PSITTACIDAE (Austral-Asia: parrots, lories, lorikeets, lovebirds)
PSITTACIDAE (Indian Ocean island parrots)
PSITTACIDAE (African parrots)
PSITTACIDAE (New World parrots: macaws, parakeets, Amazon parrots)
ACANTHISITTIDAE (New Zealand wrens)
PITTIDAE (pittas)
CALYPTOMENIDAE (green broadbills)
CALYPTOMENIDAE (green broadbills)
EURYLAIMIDAE (broadbills)
PHILEPITTIDAE (asities)
MELANOPAREIIDAE (crescentchests)
THAMNOPHILIDAE (antbirds)
THAMNOPHILIDAE (antbirds)
THAMNOPHILIDAE (antbirds)
GRALLARIIDAE (antpittas)
FURNARIIDAE (ovenbirds)
FURNARIIDAE (ovenbirds)
FURNARIIDAE (ovenbirds)
PIPRIDAE (manakins)
PIPRIDAE (manakins)
PIPRIDAE (manakins)
COTINGIDAE (cotingas)
COTINGIDAE (cotingas)
TITYRIDAE (tityras, becards)
TITYRIDAE (tityras, becards)
TITYRIDAE (tityras, becards)
TITYRIDAE (tityras, becards)
TYRANNIDAE (tyrant flycatchers)
TYRANNIDAE (tyrant flycatchers)
TYRANNIDAE (tyrant flycatchers)
TYRANNIDAE (tyrant flycatchers)
TYRANNIDAE (tyrant flycatchers)
TYRANNIDAE (tyrant flycatchers)
MENURIDAE (lyrebirds)
CLIMACTERIDAE (Australasian treecreepers)
PTILONORHYNCHIDAE (bowerbirds)
PTILONORHYNCHIDAE (bowerbirds)
MALURIDAE (fairy-wrens, grasswrens)
PARADISEIDAE (birds-of-paradise)
CORVIDAE (crows, ravens, jays)
PARIDAE (tits, chickadees)
ALAUDIDAE (larks)
PYCNONOTIDAE (bulbuls, greenbuls)
SYLVIIDAE (Old World warblers)
REGULIDAE (kinglets)
TURDIDAE (thrushes)
FRINGILLIDAE (finches)
PASSERELLIDAE (New World sparrows)
NOTE: All the birds families are listed here, except for the order of PASSERIFORMES, where families of
the Suboscines are almost complete, but for the Oscines only a small number of families are presented.
SOURCE: This phylogeny of birds is form Prum et al. (2015), "A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves)
using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing", with names for orders, families and species inserted.