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Kingdom Animalia (animals)
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Eumetazoa (metazoans)-
Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
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Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
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Phylum Chordata (chordates)
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Craniata (craniates)
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Subphylum Vertebrata (vertebrates)
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Superclass Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates)
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Euteleostomi (bony vertebrates)
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Class Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fishes and terrestrial vertebrates)
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Tetrapoda (tetrapods)
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Amniota (amniotes)
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Class Reptilia
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Class Aves (birds)
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Subclass Neognathae (neognath birds)
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Infraclass Neoaves (modern birds)
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Order Falconiformes (diurnal birds of prey)
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Family Falconidae (falcons)
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Subfamily Falconinae (falcons)
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Genus Falco (falcons and kestrels)
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Species Falco alopex (fox kestrel) -
Species Falco amurensis (Amur falcon)
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Species Falco araea (Seychelles kestrel) -
Species Falco ardosiaceus (grey kestrel)
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Species Falco berigora (brown falcon)
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Species Falco biarmicus (lanner falcon)
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Species Falco cenchroides (Australian kestrel)
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Species Falco cherrug (Saker falcon)
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Species Falco chicquera (red-necked falcon)
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Species Falco columbarius (merlin)
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Species Falco concolor (sooty falcon)
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Species Falco cuvieri (African hobby)
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Species Falco deiroleucus (orange-breasted falcon)
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Species Falco dickinsoni (Dickinson's kestrel)
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Species Falco eleonorae (Eleonora's falcon)
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Species Falco fasciinucha (Taita falcon)
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Species Falco femoralis (Aplomado falcon)
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Species Falco hypoleucos (grey falcon)
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Species Falco jugger (Laggar falcon)
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Species Falco longipennis (Australian hobby)
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Species Falco mexicanus (prairie falcon)
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Species Falco moluccensis (spotted kestrel)
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Species Falco naumanni (lesser kestrel)
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Species Falco newtoni (Madagascan kestrel)
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Species Falco novaezeelandiae (New Zealand falcon)
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Species Falco pelegrinoides (Barbary falcon)
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Species Falco peregrinus (peregrine falcon)
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Species Falco punctatus (Mauritius kestrel)
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Species Falco rufigularis (bat falcon)
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Species Falco rupicoloides (greater kestrel)
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Species Falco rusticolus (gyrfalcon)
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Species Falco severus (Oriental hobby)
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Species Falco sparverius (American kestrel)
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Species Falco subbuteo (Eurasian hobby)
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Species Falco subniger (black falcon)
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Species Falco tinnunculus (common kestrel)
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Species Falco vespertinus (red-footed falcon)
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Species Falco zoniventris (banded kestrel)
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Confused by a class within a class or an order within an order? Please see our brief essay.
Scientific names for Aves taxonomy (family and below) are from The Howard and Moore Complete Checklist of the Birds of the World, Princeton University Press, copyright 2003. Used by permission.
