In birds, long recognised higher-level clades are treated as orders, recognised by the ending -iformes. However, the number of orders is not defined and may vary from author to author. 

Unranked order-level classification of extant Aves according to Sangster et al. (2022), Wu et al. (2024), and Stiller et al. (2024).

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