Editing Bird of prey (section)

===Historical classifications===
The taxonomy of [[Carl Linnaeus]] grouped birds (class Aves) into orders, genera, and species, with no formal ranks between genus and order. He placed all birds of prey into a single order, ''Accipitres'', subdividing this into four genera: ''[[Vulture|Vultur]]'' (vultures), ''[[Falco (bird)|Falco]]'' (eagles, hawks, falcons, etc.), ''[[Strix (genus)|Strix]]'' (owls), and ''[[Lanius]]'' (shrikes). This approach was followed by subsequent authors such as [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin|Gmelin]], [[John Latham (ornithologist)|Latham]] and [[William Turton|Turton]].

[[Louis Pierre Vieillot]] used additional ranks: order, tribe, family, genus, species. Birds of prey (order Accipitres) were divided into diurnal and nocturnal tribes; the owls remained monogeneric (family Ægolii, genus ''Strix''), whilst the diurnal raptors were divided into three families: Vulturini, Gypaëti, and Accipitrini.<ref name=Veillot1816>{{cite book |last1=Vieillot |first1=Louis Pierre |editor1-last=Saunders |editor1-first=Howard |title=Analyse d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire |year=1816 |edition=London 1883 |language=fr |publisher=Willughby Society |url=https://archive.org/details/vieillotsanalyse00viei }}{{page needed|date=April 2020}}</ref> Thus Vieillot's families were similar to the Linnaean genera, with the difference that shrikes were no longer included amongst the birds of prey. In addition to the original ''Vultur'' and ''Falco'' (now reduced in scope), Vieillot adopted four genera from Savigny: ''Phene'', ''Haliæetus'', ''Pandion'', and ''Elanus''. He also introduced five new genera of vultures (''Gypagus'', ''Catharista'', ''Daptrius'', ''Ibycter'', ''Polyborus''){{NoteTag|Vieillot included the caracaras (''Daptrius'', ''Ibycter'', and ''Polyborus'') in Vulturini, though it is now known that they are related to falcons.}} and eleven new genera of accipitrines (''Aquila'', ''Circaëtus'', ''Circus'', ''Buteo'', ''Milvus'', ''Ictinia'', ''Physeta'', ''Harpia'', ''Spizaëtus'', ''Asturina'', ''Sparvius'').

Falconimorphae is a deprecated [[superorder]] within Raptores, formerly composed of the orders Falconiformes and Strigiformes. The clade was invalidated after 2012. Falconiformes is now placed in [[Eufalconimorphae]], while Strigiformes is placed in [[Afroaves]].<ref name="ericson20122">{{cite journal|last =Ericson|first =Per G. P.|date =2012|url = https://www.nrm.se/download/18.9ff3752132fdaeccb6800037316/ericson+gondwana+jbi+2012.pdf |title = Evolution of terrestrial birds in three continents: biogeography and parallel radiations|journal =Journal of Biogeography|volume=39|issue=5|pages= 813–824|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02650.x|bibcode =2012JBiog..39..813E|s2cid =85599747}}</ref>