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Birds
🐦Modern-Jawed Birds (Neognathae)
Modern Birds
~10,000+ species
The vast majority of living birds, distinguished by a more flexible jaw structure than palaeognaths. Includes everything from hummingbirds to eagles.
💡Modern birds underwent an explosive radiation after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, filling ecological niches worldwide.
103 birds
🐓 chicken🦃 turkey🦚 peacock🐦 pheasant🐦 quail🐦 partridge🐦 grouse🐦 guinea fowl🦢 swan🪿 goose🦆 mallard🦆 teal🦆 mandarin duck🕊️ pigeon🕊️ dove🦩 flamingo🐦 grebe🐦 crane🐦 coot🐦 moorhen🐦 gull🐦 tern🐦 sandpiper🐦 snipe🐦 plover🐦 puffin🐧 emperor penguin🐧 king penguin🐧 rockhopper penguin🐧 little penguin🐦 albatross🐦 petrel🐦 stork🐦 cormorant🐦 frigatebird🐦 pelican🐦 heron🐦 egret🐦 bittern🐦 ibis🐦 spoonbill🦅 condor🦅 turkey vulture🦅 bald eagle🦅 golden eagle🦅 hawk🦅 harrier🦅 kite🦅 osprey🦉 great horned owl🦉 snowy owl🦉 screech owl🦉 burrowing owl🦉 barn owl🐦 kingfisher🐦 bee-eater🐦 hornbill🐦 woodpecker🐦 toucan🦅 peregrine falcon
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