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Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Reptilia

Class Reptilia
(reptiles)





Why are there birds on the reptiles page?

Overwhelming physical, fossil, and molecular evidence has now convincingly established that birds, as a group, fall within the group Reptilia. Birds are the closest living relatives of crocodiles, which are traditionally included in Reptilia, so birds fall within that group as well. Please see our information on Reptilia for more information relevant to this debate, and our details on how animals are classified.

Because we have more pictures of birds than of reptiles (a function mainly of their popularity with people), these pictures seem to be weighted towards birds.


dusky eagle-owl
Bubo coromandus
barred eagle-owl
Bubo sumatranus
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
 
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
 
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
 
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
 
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
great horned owl
Bubo virginianus
 
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