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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 sounds of birds than of reptiles (a function mainly of their popularity with people), these sounds seem to be weighted towards birds.


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great blue heron
Ardea herodias
great blue heron
Ardea herodias
orange-billed sparrow
Arremon aurantiirostris
 

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black-striped sparrow
Arremonops conirostris
black-striped sparrow
Arremonops conirostris
black-striped sparrow
Arremonops conirostris
 

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grha1.wav

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brat1.wav

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brat3.wav

gray hawk
Asturina nitida
bright-rumped attila
Attila spadiceus
bright-rumped attila
Attila spadiceus
 

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emto2.wav

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emerald toucanet
Aulacorhynchus prasinus
emerald toucanet
Aulacorhynchus prasinus
emerald toucanet
Aulacorhynchus prasinus
 

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verd2.wav

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verd3.wav

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verdin
Auriparus flaviceps
verdin
Auriparus flaviceps
verdin
Auriparus flaviceps
 
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