page_title: Aves in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae
section_title: Accipitres
hierarchical_section_title: Aves in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae / Accipitres
caption_attribution_description: Turkey vulture catching the morning sun at Bluff UT
context_page_description: In the 10th edition of Systema Naturae published in 1758, the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus described 554 species of bird and gave each a binomial name.
  Linnaeus first included birds in the 6th edition of his Systema Naturae which was published in 1748. In it he listed 260 species arranged into 51 genera and six orders. The entries for each species were very brief; he did not include a description but instead provided a citation to an earlier publication, often to his own Fauna suecica which was published in 1746. Linnaeus generally followed the classification scheme introduced by the English parson and naturalist John Ray which grouped species based on the characteristics of their bill and feet.
  The 10th edition appeared in 1758 and was the first in which Linnaeus consistently used his binomial system of nomenclature. He increased the number of birds to 554 species which filled 116 pages compared with only 17 in the 6th edition. For each species he included both a brief description and also citations to earlier publications. He maintained 6 orders as in the 6th edition but renamed Scolopaces to Grallae.
context_section_description: Vultur (vultures & condors)
  Vultur gryphus – Andean condor 
  Vultur harpyja – harpy eagle 
  Vultur papa – king vulture 
  Vultur aura – turkey vulture 
  Vultur barbatus – bearded vulture 
  Vultur percnopterus – Egyptian vulture 
  Falco (falcons, eagles, & kin)
  Falco melanaetus – eastern imperial eagle (now Aquila heliaca Savigny, 1809) 
  Falco chrysaetos – golden eagle 
  Falco fulvus – synonym of golden eagle 
  Falco canadensis – golden eagle (North American subspecies) 
  Falco rusticolus – gyrfalcon 
  Falco barbarus – nomen dubium 
  Falco caerulescens – collared falconet 
  Falco albicilla – white-tailed eagle 
  Falco pygargus – Montagu's harrier 
  Falco milvus – red kite 
  Falco forficatus – swallow-tailed kite 
  Falco gentilis – northern goshawk 
  Falco subbuteo – Eurasian hobby 
  Falco buteo – common buzzard 
  Falco tinnunculus – common kestrel 
  Falco sufflator – synonym of the laughing falcon 
  Falco cachinnans – laughing falcon 
  Falco sparverius – American kestrel 
  Falco columbarius – merlin 
  Falco lanarius – lanner falcon (now Falco biarmicus Temminck, 1825)
  Falco haliaetus – osprey 
  Falco gyrfalco – synonym of the gyrfalcon 
  Falco apivorus – European honey buzzard 
  Falco aeruginosus – western marsh harrier 
  Falco palumbarius – synonym of the northern goshawk 
  Falco nisus – Eurasian sparrowhawk 
  Strix (owls)
  Strix bubo – Eurasian eagle-owl 
  Strix scandiaca – snowy owl 
  Strix asio – eastern screech owl 
  Strix otus – long-eared owl 
  Strix scops – Eurasian scops-owl 
  Strix aluco – tawny owl 
  Strix funerea – Tengmalm's owl 
  Strix nyctea - synonym of the snowy owl 
  Strix stridula – synonym of the tawny owl 
  Strix ulula – northern hawk-owl 
  Strix passerina – Eurasian pygmy owl 
  Lanius (shrikes)
  Lanius cristatus – brown shrike 
  Lanius excubitor – great grey shrike 
  Lanius collurio – red-backed shrike 
  Lanius tyrannus – eastern kingbird 
  Lanius carnifex – Guianan red-cotinga 
  Lanius schach – long-tailed shrike 
  Lanius senator – woodchat shrike 
  Lanius caerulescens – white-bellied drongo 
  Lanius jocosus – red-whiskered bulbul 
  Lanius garrulus – Bohemian waxwing 
caption: The turkey vulture was named Vultur aura in 1758
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