Taxonomy

Here's all of those species sorted out to show how they're related to each other. I know in the bird list that there's a very specific order to it. That leaves me worried that the other kingdoms and phyla, etc have specific orders that I've botched. I also know that the birds change every couple years as DNA tells us who is actually related to each other (I imagine a Jerry Springer reveal every year. . . "Falcons. . . the DNA tests says. . . hawks are not your cousins!"). That leaves me not too worried.

So it's a tree of life, but what kind of tree, we're not sure!

Putting it together has helped me better understand how things are related, and how they are different. Finding out coots aren't ducks, the cedars outside aren't actually cedars, possums are marsupials, not rodents - these are fun moments.

• Animalia
• arthropods
• arachnids
• spiders
• Sierra Dome Spider
  
• Cross Spider
• Hobo Spider
• Giant House Spider
• insects
• odonata
• damselflies
• Boreal Bluet
• orthoptera
• katydids
• Common Conehead
• grasshoppers
• Carolina Locust
• beetles
• fireflies
• Firefly sp? (Ellychnia)
• rove beetles (Staphylinidae)
• Devil's Coach Horse Beetle
• ground-beetles
• Narrow-collared Snail-eating beetle
• leaf beetles
• Golden Tortoise Beetle
• ladybugs
• Seven-spotted Ladybug
• hymenoptera
• vespids
• Western Yellowjacket
• bumblebees
• Yellow-fronted Bumblebee
• bees
• Western Honeybee
• lepidoptera
• butterflies
• Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
• Lorquin's Admiral
• arctiidae
• Isabella Tiger Moth (wooly bear caterpillar)
• leafroller moths
• Divided Olethreutes Moth
• lappet moths
• Western Tent Caterpillar
• geometer moths
• larentiinae
• Western White-ribboned Carpet Moth
• ortheroptera
• Either Bruce's cutworm moth or winter moth
• trichodezia
• White-striped Black Moth
• idaea
• Single-dotted Wave Moth
• vertebrates
• amphibians
• frogs
• Pacific Treefrog
  
• American Bullfrog
• salamanders
• Long-toed Salamander
• Northwestern Salamander
• reptiles
• snakes
• Puget Sound Garter Snake
  
• turtles
• pond turtles
• Painted Turtle
• Red-eared Slider
• birds
• swans
• Trumpeter Swan
• geese
• Canada Goose
• Cackling Goose
• Greater White-fronted Goose
• ducks
• Wood Duck
• Northern Shoveler
• Gadwall
• American Wigeon
• Mallard
• Northern Pintail
• Green-winged Teal (+Eurasian Teal)
• Ring-necked Duck
• Bufflehead
• Common Goldeneye
• Barrow's Goldeneye
• Hooded Merganser
• Common Merganser
• game birds
• Ring-necked Pheasant
• California Quail
• Ruffed Grouse
• grebes
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Western Grebe
• doves
• Rock Pigeon
• Band-tailed Pigeon
• Eurasian Collared-Dove
• swifts
• Vaux's Swift
• Black Swift
• hummingbirds
• Anna's Hummingbird
• Rufous Hummingbird
• gallinules
• American Coot
• gulls and terns
• Caspian Tern
• Glaucous-winged Gull
• Mew Gull (now Short-billed)
• Iceland Gull
• Ring-billed Gull
• shorebirds
• Killdeer
• Wilson's Snipe
• Greater Yellowlegs
• Least Sandpiper
• Semipalmated Plover
• cormorants
• Double-crested Cormorant
• herons
• Great Blue Heron
• raptors
• Turkey Vulture
• Osprey
• Cooper's Hawk
• Bald Eagle
• Red-tailed Hawk
• owls
• Western Screech-Owl
• Great Horned Owl
• Northern Pygmy-Owl
• Barred Owl
• kingfishers
• Belted Kingfisher
• woodpeckers
• Downy Woodpecker
• Hairy Woodpecker
• Northern Flicker
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Red-breasted Sapsucker
• falcons
• American Kestrel
• Merlin
• flycatchers
• Pacific-slope Flycatcher
• Willow Flycatcher
• Western Wood-Pewee
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Least Flycatcher
• Eastern Kingbird
• Hammond's Flycatcher
• vireos
• Hutton's Vireo
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Warbling Vireo
• shrikes
• Northern Shrike
• corvids
• Common Raven
• American Crow
• Steller's Jay
• California Scrub-Jay
• bushtits
• Bushtit
• swallows
• Tree Swallow
• Violet-green Swallow
• Barn Swallow
• Northern Rough-winged Swallow
• Purple Martin
• Cliff Swallow
• chickadees
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Chestnut-backed Chickadee
• kinglets
• Golden-crowned Kinglet
• Ruby-crowned Kinglet
• nuthatches
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• creepers
• Brown Creeper
• wrens
• Pacific Wren
• Bewick's Wren
• House Wren
• Marsh Wren
• thrushes
• American Robin
• Varied Thrush
• Hermit Thrush
• Swainson's Thrush
• Western Bluebird
• old-world sparrows
• House Sparrow
• sparrows
• Dark-eyed Junco
• Song Sparrow
• Lincoln's Sparrow
• Spotted Towhee
• Fox Sparrow
• Golden-crowned Sparrow
• White-crowned Sparrow
• Savannah Sparrow
• finches
• House Finch
• Purple Finch
• American Goldfinch
• Pine Siskin
• Evening Grosbeak
• Red Crossbill
• blackbirds
• Western Meadowlark
• Red-winged Blackbird
• Brown-headed Cowbird
• Bullock's Oriole
• warblers
• Orange-crowned Warbler
• Common Yellowthroat
• Yellow-rumped Warbler
• Black-throated Gray Warbler
• Townsend's Warbler
• Wilson's Warbler
• Yellow Warbler
• Nashville Warbler
• MacGillivray's Warbler
• cardinal family
• Western Tanager
• Lazuli Bunting
• Black-headed Grosbeak
• fish
• salmonids
• Rainbow Trout
• mammals
• ungulates
• Mule Deer (subspecies - Black-tailed Deer)
  
• Elk
• carnivores
• Common Raccoon
  
• Short-tailed Weasel
• insectovores
• Shrew Mole
• marsupials
• Virginia Opossum
• lagomorphs
• European Rabbit
• rodents
• Eastern Gray Squirrel
• North American Beaver
• Douglas Squirrel
• Nutria
• mollusks
• gastropods
• slugs
• Banana Slug 
• Red Arion
• Garden Arion
• snails
• Beaded Lancetooth
• Pacific Sideband
• Plants
• Anthophyte (flowering plants)
• eudicots
• boraginales
• forget-me-not family
• Common Forget-me-not
• asparagales
• asparagus family
• False Lily-of-the-Valley
• apiales
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• saxifragales
• gooseberry family
• Red-flowering Currant
• liliales
• bunchflower family
• Pacific Trillium
• myrtales
• primrose family
• Fireweed
• lamiales
• plantain family
• Common Foxglove
• English Plantain
• mint family
• Red Dead Nettle
• Native Self-heal
• asterales
• aster family
• Oxeye Daisy
• sunflower family
• Nipplewort
• fagales
• birch family
• alders
• Red Alder
• dispacales
• honeysuckle family
• honeysuckles
• Trumpet Honeysuckle
• snowberries
• Common Snowberry
• fabales
• legumes
• Red Clover
• brooms
• Scotch Broom
• rosales
• nettle family
• Stinging Nettle
• rose family
• rubus
• Trailing Blackberry
• Evergreen Blackberry
• Himalayan Blackberry
• Salmonberry
• Thimbleberry
• oemleria
• Indian Plum (sole species)
• spirea
• Douglas' Spirea
• caryophyllales
• carnation family
• stellaria
• Chickweed
• ericales
• heather family
• Salal
• Red Huckleberry
• rhododendrons
• Rhododendron Sp?
• ranunculales
• poppy family
• Western Bleeding Heart
• barberries
• mahonias
• Oregon Grape
• geraniales
• geraniums
• Herb-Robert (Stinky Bob)
• malpighiales
• willows
• Black Cottonwood
• sapindales
• soapberry family
• maple
• Bigleaf Maple
• Coniferophyta (conifers)
  
• cypress family
• sequoias
• Coastal Redwood
• thujas
• Western Redcedar
• pine family
• pinales
• pines
• Shore Pine 
• hemlocks
• Western Hemlock
• Douglas firs
• Coast Douglas Fir
• Pteridophyta (ferns)
• family: Dennstaedtiaceae
• Bracken Fern
• polypod ferns
• Licorice Fern
• wood ferns
• genus dryopteris
• Spreading Wood Fern
• genus polystichum
• Western Sword Fern
• Fungi
• Ascomycota
• Lichen
• Peltigera
• Dog Lichen
• Cladonia
• Pixie Cup
• Basidiomycota
• tremellomycetes
• tremella
• Witches' Butter