Neornithes

            This category contains all modern birds and is divided into two groups.
                                                                                            
                 Palaeognathae:  Means "old jaw" and includes the ratites and tinamous.
                 Neognathae :  Means "new jaw" and includes all other modern birds.
               
       

    
            Palaeognathae

  Tinamiformes (tinamou)   

   
    Tinamou

                Ratitae (ratiti)

                Rheiformes (rheas)

                Struthioniformes (ostriches)

               
                Ostriche chicks

            Neognathae

                Anseriformes (ducks, geese, swans, screamers)

              
              Gadwall                                 Canada Goose

                Galliformes (turkeys, grouse, quails, pheasants, peafowl, etc.)

                 
                Ring-necked Pheasant

                Gaviiformes (loons)                

               
                Common Loon

                Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc.)

                 
                Sandhill Crane                       Virginia Rail

                Podicepiformes (grebes)

               
                Pied-billed Grebe

                Ciconiiformes (storks, herons, bitterns, egrets, spoonbills, ibises,)

                 
                Black-crowned                        Great Blue Heron                Green Heron                           American Bittern                   Snowy Egret
                       Night Heron

                Pelecaniformes (pelicans, frigate birds, gannets, cormorants, darters, anhingas)

               
                Double-crested                         American White               Anhinga
                        Cormornat                                 Pelicans

                Procellariformes (albatrosses, petrels, shearwaters)

               
                Black-footed Albatross        Greater Shearwater

             Sphenisciformes (penquins)

                 
                Emperor Penquins

                Charadriiformes (avocets, phalaropes, woodcocks, sandpipers, oystercatchers, plovers, gulls,
                                                   terns, puffins, auks)

               
                Wilson's Phalarope            American Woodcock            Semi-palmated Plover                Herring Gull                Altantic Puffin

                Columbiformes (pigeons, doves, dodo)

               
                Band-tailed Pigeons            Ruddy Ground Dove

                Psittaciformes (cockatoos, parrots)

               
                Thick-billed Parrots

                Falconiformes (falcons, caracaras)

               
                Peregrine Falcon                Creasted Caracaras

                Cuculiformes (cuckoos, anis, coucals)

               
                Black-billed Cuckoo            Mangrove Cuckoo

                Pandionidae (ospreys)

               
                Osprey

                Accipitriformes (hawks, eagles, Old World vultures)

               
                Bald Eagle                                Red-tailed Hawk                Cooper's Hawk                        Sharp-shinned Hawk

                Goliiformes (mousebirds)

               
                Red-faced Mousebird            Speckled Mousebirds

                Strigiformes (owls, barn owls)

               
                Eastern Screech Owl                    Great-horned Owl            Northern Saw-whet Owl

                Apodiformes (swifts, tree swifts, hummingbirds)

               
                Ruby-throated                       Chimney Swift
                        Hummingbird

                Caprimulgiformes (nightjars)

               
                Common Nighthawk            Whip-poor-will

                Coraciiformes (kingfishers, todies, motmots, bee-eaters, hornbills)

               
                Belted Kingfisher

                Trogoniformes (trogons, quetzals)

                
                Elegant Togon

                Bucerotiformes (hornbills, hoopoes, etc.)

               
                Red-knobbed Hornbill

                Piciformes (woodpeckers, toucans, barbets)

               
                Downey                                   Pileated Woodpecker
                      Woodpecker                           & Downey Woodpecker

                Passeriformes (songbirds)

               
                Eastern Kingbird                 Eastern Wood-peewee           Warbling Vireo                 Common Yellowthroat                

          
                Pictures are taken from Thayer's Birding software or eNature.com