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List of parrots
List of parrots: overview of the order Psittaciformes, about 390 species in 92 genera across cockatoos, New Zealand, Old World, and New World/African parrots; classification, size extremes, and conservation.
List of pigeon breeds
List of pigeon breeds: catalogs of recognized domestic pigeon (Columba livia) varieties, organized by the NPA (Tumblers, Form, Structure, Wattle groups) and the European LERP/CESP list, with breed standards, ring sizes, and genetics.
List of U.S. state birds
List of U.S. state birds: the official bird emblems adopted by all 50 states, begun in 1926 with Kentucky's cardinal; dominated by the Northern Cardinal (7 states), Western Meadowlark (6), and Northern Mockingbird (5), with unique picks like Hawaii's nene.
Little corella
Little corella (Cacatua sanguinea), a small white Australian cockatoo with blue eye-ring, pink lores and short bill; most widespread of Australia's three corella species, 35-40 cm, IUCN Least Concern, expanding range and adapting to urban areas.
Little owl
Little owl (Athene noctua, Steinkauz, Civetta): small sedentary Palearctic owl of open farmland, IUCN Least Concern with 5–10 million mature individuals; introduced to Britain in the 1870s, where its population has fallen 88% since 1967.
Little penguin
Little penguin (Eudyptula minor; fairy penguin, kororā), the world's smallest penguin at about 30 cm and 1.1–1.2 kg, breeding on southern Australian and New Zealand coasts; IUCN Least Concern.
Liver bird
The Liver bird is a mythical cormorant-like bird, the symbol of Liverpool, seen on the city's coat of arms and atop the Royal Liver Building since 1911.
Locustella
Locustella (Kaup, 1829), the grasshopper warblers, is a genus of cryptic Old World passerines in Locustellidae; type species L. naevia. Molecular phylogenies found the genus non-monophyletic, prompting revised classification and new genera such as Helopsaltes.
Lonchura
Lonchura (mannikins, munias), genus of estrildid finches erected by Sykes 1832; includes scaly-breasted munia, Chestnut Munia, Java sparrow; recent rapid radiation with mosaic genome evolution.
Long-legged buzzard
Long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus, Cretzschmar 1829), also called Buse feroce, is a large Accipitridae raptor of arid steppes from SE Europe to Central Asia, 50-65 cm, wingspan 126-155 cm, IUCN Least Concern, with disputed cirtensis taxonomy.
Long-tailed tit
The long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) is a tiny Eurasian songbird weighing about 7.8 grams, with a tail longer than its body and a domed nest of moss, spider silk, and feathers.
Loon
Loon (family Gaviidae, Common Loon Gavia immer): Northern Hemisphere foot-propelled diving fish-eaters; solid bones, long takeoff runway, yodel-wail-tremolo-hoot calls, first breeding at six years, lead tackle the leading adult mortality cause in New Hampshire.
Lophodytes
Lophodytes, Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus), a monotypic North American merganser genus erected by Reichenbach in 1853, phylogenetically between Bucephala and Mergus; smallest North American merganser, cavity-nesting fish-eater.
Lophura
Lophura (gallopheasants, firebacks) is a genus of Phasianidae pheasants of southern and Southeast Asia, including the silver, kalij, Siamese, crested, and crestless firebacks, Bulwer's, Swinhoe's, and Edwards's pheasants; five mitochondrial clades, several threatened species.
Lorius
Lorius is a genus of six lory parrot species in Psittaculidae, erected by Vigors in 1825 with the purple-naped lory as type, ranging from the Moluccas through New Guinea to the Solomon Islands; L. domicella and L. garrulus are Vulnerable.
Lovebird
Lovebirds (Agapornis, Selby 1836) are nine small African and Madagascan parrot species of family Psittaculidae, famous for lifelong pair bonds, allopreening, and regurgitated food sharing; hugely popular pets, with a feral rosy-faced colony of about 2,000 birds in Phoenix, Arizona.
Loxia curvirostra
Loxia curvirostra, the red crossbill or common crossbill (Fichtenkreuzschnabel), is a Holarctic finch with crossed mandibles for extracting conifer seeds; nomadic, irruptive, IUCN Least Concern with 90-180 million mature individuals.
Lullula
Lullula (Woodlark, Lullula arborea) is a monotypic genus of larks (Alaudidae). Least Concern, stable population of 4.77–10.1 million mature individuals, EU Birds Directive Annex I, open sandy habitats across Europe.
Luscinia svecica
Luscinia svecica, the bluethroat (Blaukehlchen, Gorgebleue à miroir), is a small Muscicapidae songbird of Eurasia and Alaska, with red- or white-spotted blue male throats across about 10 subspecies and a 2-million global population.
Luzon bleeding-heart
The Luzon bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica) is a species of ground dove endemic to the Philippines, named for the bright red patch on its white breast that resembles a bleeding wound.
Lyrebird
Lyrebird (Menura, family Menuridae): two Australian ground songbirds, the superb lyrebird and Albert's lyrebird, famed for male lyre-shaped tails, ~80% mimetic song, and winter mound-display courtship.
Lyrurus
Lyrurus (Swainson, 1832) is a grouse genus in Phasianidae with two species, the black grouse Lyrurus tetrix and the Caucasian black grouse L. mlokosiewiczi, known for lekking males and declining European populations.
Macaroni penguin
Macaroni penguin (Eudyptes chrysolophus), a crested penguin of subantarctic islands; 71 cm, 5–6 kg, yellow-orange crest. About 6.3 million breeding pairs, IUCN Vulnerable, krill diet, Royal penguin debated as its subspecies.
Macaw
Macaws: large New World parrots of genus Ara and relatives, native from Mexico to South America. Long-lived, fruit- and nut-eating seed dispersers; statuses range from Least Concern to Spix's macaw, extinct in the wild but being reintroduced in Brazil.
Macrocephalon
Macrocephalon, containing only the Maleo (Macrocephalon maleo, Müller 1846), is a Sulawesi-endemic megapode that buries single huge eggs in sun- or geothermally heated communal nesting grounds; Critically Endangered, 8,000-14,000 mature birds, declining mainly from egg-taking.
Macronectes
Macronectes, the giant petrels, a genus of two large Southern Hemisphere Procellariidae seabirds: Southern Giant Petrel M. giganteus and Northern Giant Petrel M. halli, split in 1966, plus the Pliocene fossil M. tinae.
Macronyx
Macronyx is the genus of African longclaws, ground-dwelling Motacillidae birds with bright yellow, orange, or red underparts, described by Swainson in 1827; eight species are listed, including the Endangered, Kenya-endemic Sharpe's Longclaw.
Magpie
Magpies are a polyphyletic group of corvid birds across several genera, but the genus Pica consists of long-tailed black-and-white birds used in studies of avian cognition.
Mallard
The mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck of the Northern Hemisphere, the most abundant duck in North America and the ancestor of nearly all domestic ducks.
Malurus
Malurus (fairy-wrens), genus of 12 Australo-Papuan passerine birds in family Maluridae, established by Vieillot 1816; socially monogamous cooperative breeders with extreme extra-pair paternity, striking male nuptial plumage, and embryonic vocal-password defense against cuckoos.