Pelecanoides georgicus Murphy & Harper, 1916 - South Georgian diving-petrel (mount, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, USA).

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Aves, Procellariiformes, Pelecanoididae

Birds are small to large, warm-blooded, egg-laying, feathered, bipedal vertebrates capable of powered flight (although some are secondarily flightless). Many scientists characterize birds as dinosaurs, but this is consequence of the physical structure of evolutionary diagrams. Birds aren’t dinosaurs. They’re birds. The logic & rationale that some use to justify statements such as “birds are dinosaurs” is the same logic & rationale that results in saying “vertebrates are echinoderms”. Well, no one says the latter. No one should say the former, either.