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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 Passeriformes (perching birds)
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Acanthisittae (New Zealand wrens) -
Family Acanthizidae (Australian warblers)
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Family Callaeatidae (wattlebirds, wattled crows)
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Family Cinclosomatidae (quail-thrush, whipbird, rail-babblers) -
Family Climacteridae (Australian treecreepers)
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Family Cnemophilidae (satin birds)
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Corvoidea (crows, birds of paradise, and relatives)
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Family Dasyornithidae (bristlebirds)
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Eurylaimi (Old World suboscines)
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Furnari (ovenbirds, antbirds, and relatives)
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Menurae (lyrebirds and scrub-birds)
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Family Orthonychidae (log-runners or chowchillas)
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Family Petroicidae (Australasian robins)
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Family Picathartidae (bald crows)
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Family Pomatostomidae (Australian babblers)
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Family Ptilonorhynchidae (bowerbirds)
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Tyranni (New World flycatchers, cotingas, and manakins)
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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.
