Dogs Home Page Fish Home Page Vets Home Page Pet Classifieds Post your ads for free, advertise with India's first Pet Classifieds . Send in your Query to our panel of Experienced Vets. The study of birds in known as orinthology .
All birds belong to the 'aves' class of the phylum-chordata.
There are well above 8000 species of birds in the world today. The earliest known bird 'archeopteryx' lived approximately 150 million years ago the remains of which were discovered in Germany in 1861. They are beyond doubt the most fascinating and colourful creatures that have ever lived on our planet. For times immemorial, birds have been used by man. Cock fights were a common form of entertainment while parrots were kept as house pets.