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“American eagle” redirects here. For other uses, see American eagle (disambiguation) and Bald Eagle (disambiguation). Bald eagleTemporal range: Pleistocene-Recent 0.3–0 Ma[1] PreꞒꞒOSDCPTJKPgN↓ Bald eagle preparing to fly at Kachemak Bay, Alaska, United States 0:03 A recording of a bald eagle at Yellowstone National Park Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[2] CITES Appendix II (CITES)[3] Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Accipitriformes…

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes[1] (/ˈstrɪdʒəfɔːrmiːz/), which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight. Exceptions include the diurnal northern hawk-owl and the gregarious burrowing owl. Owls hunt mostly small mammals, insects, and other birds, although a few species specialize in hunting fish. They are found in all regions of…

Birds are some of the most successful vertebrate animals on Earth. There are more than 9,000 bird species, and they are spread over the whole planet, from the poles to the equator. Ornithology is the study of birds, and it comes under branches of zoology. The word ‘Ornithology’ is derived from 16th-century Latin word ornithologia meaning “bird science“. Table of Contents [show] Due to…

A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes). Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines, from Latin oscen, “songbird”. The Passeriformes contains 5,000 or so species[1][2] found all over the world, in which the vocal organ typically is developed in such a way as to produce a diverse and elaborate bird song. Songbirds form one…

House sparrow Male Female Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1] Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes Family: Passeridae Genus: Passer Species: P. domesticus Binomial name Passer domesticus(Linnaeus, 1758) Range of P. domesticus  Resident  Non-breeding  Extant and introduced (resident)  Possibly extant and introduced (resident)  Possibly extinct and introduced Synonyms[2] show The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found…

bird, (class Aves), any of the more than 10,400 living species unique in having feathers, the major characteristic that distinguishes them from all other animals. A more-elaborate definition would note that they are warm-blooded vertebrates more related to reptiles than to mammals and that they have a four-chambered heart (as do mammals), forelimbs modified into wings (a trait shared with…