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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yellow tyrannulet Capsiempis flaveola |
northern cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis |
northern cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis |
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northern cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis |
northern cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis |
pine siskin Carduelis pinus |
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pine siskin Carduelis pinus |
Carduelis psaltria hesperophila
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Carduelis psaltria hesperophila
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Carduelis psaltria hesperophila
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Carduelis psaltria hesperophila
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house finch Carpodacus mexicanus |
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house finch Carpodacus mexicanus |
house finch Carpodacus mexicanus |
black-faced grosbeak Caryothraustes poliogaster |
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