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Colorado has an official State Bird --
the Lark Bunting. (Tom Grey photo )
Bill Schmoker's bird photos:www.schmoker.org/BirdPics/index.html | |
| These bird families are in the order Passeriformes, or perching birds. This order has more than half of all bird species. Family Alaudidae. Larks. Family Cardinalidae Cardinals, Grosbeak. Family Corvidae Ravens, Crows, jays, magpies, etc Family Emberizidae Juncos, Towhees & some Sparrows Family Fringillidae True Finches Family Hirundinidae Swallows and Martins Family Icteridae. Blackbirds, orioles, meadowlarks, etc. Family Paridae tits, chickadees, and titmice Family Parulidae . New World Warblers Family Passeridae Sparrows Family Sittidae Nuthatches Family Sturnidae -- Starlings Family Troglodytidae -- Wrens Family Turdidae Thrushes (Bluebirds, Robins, etc) Family Tyrannidae Kingbirds, Tyrant flycatcher | These families are in other orders. Family Accipitridae. Hawks and Eagles Family Anatidae. Ducks, Geese. Family Ardeidae Herons and Egrets. Family Cathartidae New World vultures. Family Cerylidae Kingfishers Family Charadriidae. Killdeer, Plovers, dotterels, and lapwings Family Columbidae. Pigeons and Doves Family Cuculidae Roadrunner Family Falconidae. Falcons and Caracaras Family Gruidae Cranes Family Laridae. Gulls and Terns Family Meleagrididae Wild Turkeys Family Odontophoridae Quail Family Pandionidae . Osprey. Family Pelecanidae Pelicans Family Phalacrocoracidae Cormorants Family Picidae. Woodpeckers Family Podicipedidae. Grebes. Family Rallidae Coots & Rails. Family Recurvirostridae Avocets Family Scolopacidae Sandpipers Family Strigidae -- Owls Family Trochilidae Hummingbirds |