page_title: List of birds
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds
caption_attribution_description: King Penguins at Salisbury Plain
context_page_description: This page lists living orders and families of birds. The links below should then lead to family accounts and hence to individual species.
  The passerines alone account for well over 5,000 species. In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of the real number places it at almost twice that.
  Taxonomy is very fluid in the age of DNA analysis, so comments are made where appropriate, and all numbers are approximate. In particular see Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy for a very different classification.
context_section_description: This page lists living orders and families of birds. The links below should then lead to family accounts and hence to individual species.
  The passerines (perching birds) alone account for well over 5,000 species. In total there are about 10,000 species of birds described worldwide, though one estimate of the real number places it at almost twice that.
  Taxonomy is very fluid in the age of DNA analysis, so comments are made where appropriate, and all numbers are approximate. In particular see Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy for a very different classification.
caption: King penguins
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