This page lists living orders and families of birds, class Aves. The links below should then lead to family accounts and hence to individual species.
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.
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 awarded Yoichiro Nambu, "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature&q
The Nobel Prize in Physics in 2008 awarded Yoichiro Nambu, "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature&q
