Birds

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Birds

Birds and humans

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Fishing Cormorants

Birds are an important food source for humans. The most commonly eaten species is the domestic chicken and its eggs, although geese, pheasants, turkeys, and ducks are also widely eaten. Other birds that have been utilized for food include emus, ostriches, pigeons, grouse, quails, doves, woodcocks, songbirds, and others, including small passerines such as finches. Birds grown for human consumption are referred to as poultry.

Tyranni

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Scissor-tailed FlycatcherScissor-tailed Flycatcher

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Suborder: Tyranni
Families: Tyrannidae, Pittidae, Eurylaimidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Furnariidae, Thamnophilidae, Formicariidae, Conopophagidae, Rhinocryptidae, Cotingidae, Pipridae, Philepittidae, Acanthisittidae

Passerida

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Passerida

Nestorini

Tribes of birds

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Tribes of birds

Bucorvinae

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Ground-hornbill

Subfamilies of birds

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Subfamilies of birds

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