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This week I'm wrapping up my recent series of articles on ornithology - the study of birds.

Ornithologists are still actively classifying and reclassifying bird species. There is a huge amount of debate about some birds. Are they really a species or not? Or are they actually a race of a similar species in the same genus?

This week's article provides an overview of the currently accepted classification of bird species.


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Bird Taxonomy - How Birds are Classified
How do scientists classify the more than 9,700 currently known species of birds?

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art18495.asp

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