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bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

Craniata, subphylum Craniata, subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata - fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals

family Struthionidae, Struthionidae - tall terrestrial birds: ostriches

Casuaridae, family Casuaridae - a family of large ostrich-like birds including cassowaries

Apterygidae, family Apterygidae - coextensive with the order Apterygiformes

family Rheidae, Rheidae - a family of birds coextensive with the order Rheiformes

Aepyornidae, family Aepyornidae - coextensive with the order Aepyorniformes

Dinornithidae, family Dinornithidae - moas

family Meliphagidae, Meliphagidae - honey eaters

family Prunellidae, Prunellidae - hedge sparrow

Alaudidae, family Alaudidae - larks

family Motacillidae, Motacillidae - pipits and wagtails

family Fringillidae, Fringillidae - finches: goldfinches; bullfinches; chaffinches; siskins; canaries; cardinals; grosbeaks; crossbills; linnets; buntings

Carduelinae, subfamily Carduelinae - used in some classifications for a subgroup of finches

Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizidae, subfamily Emberizinae - buntings and some New World sparrows

Coerebidae, Dacninae, family Coerebidae, family Dacninae - the honeycreepers

family Passeridae, Passeridae - true sparrows: Old world birds formerly considered weaverbirds

family Ploceidae, Ploceidae - weaverbirds

Drepanididae, family Drepanididae - Hawaiian honeycreepers

family Menuridae, Menuridae - lyrebirds

Atrichornithidae, family Atrichornithidae - scrubbirds

Eurylaimidae, family Eurylaimidae - coextensive with the suborder Eurylaimi

superfamily Tyrannidae, Tyrannidae - New World tyrant flycatchers most numerous in Central America and South America but also in the United States and Canada

Cotingidae, family Cotingidae - cotingas; umbrella birds

family Pipridae, Pipridae - manakins

family Furnariidae, Furnariidae - e.g. ovenbirds

family Formicariidae, Formicariidae - antbirds

Dendrocolaptidae, family Dendrocolaptidae - woodhewers or woodcreepers

family Pittidae, Pittidae - pittas

family Muscicapidae, Muscicapidae - Old World (true) flycatchers

family Turdidae, Turdidae - thrushes; in some classifications considered a subfamily (Turdinae) of the family Muscicapidae

subfamily Turdinae, Turdinae - alternative classification for the thrushes

family Sylviidae, Sylviidae - in some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers

subfamily Sylviinae, Sylviinae - alternative classification for the Old World warblers

family Timaliidae, Timaliidae - babblers

family Parulidae, Parulidae - New World warblers

family Paradisaeidae, Paradisaeidae - birds of paradise

family Icteridae, Icteridae - American orioles; American blackbirds; bobolinks; meadowlarks

family Oriolidae, Oriolidae - Old World orioles

family Sturnidae, Sturnidae - Old World starlings

Corvidae, family Corvidae - crow; raven; rook; jackdaw; chough; magpie; jay

Garrulinae, subfamily Garrulinae - subfamily of the crow family: jays

Cracticidae, family Cracticidae - Australian birds formerly included in the family Laniidae

family Troglodytidae, Troglodytidae - wrens

family Mimidae, Mimidae - sometimes considered a subfamily of Troglodytidae: mockingbirds; catbirds; thrashers

Acanthisittidae, family Acanthisittidae, family Xenicidae, Xenicidae - alternative names for the family comprising the New Zealand wrens

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