are birds considered reptiles?

taxonomy is always changing but i checked and at the moment lizard, snakes, crocodiles and birds are more closely related to each other than any of them are to turtles and tortoises.

Thats because birds are related to reptiles! Many studies show similarities between birds and dinosaurs that show a clear relationship between the two; some go so far as to say that birds are dinosaurs. Some of the evidence for this: the scales you mentioned, the fact that they lay eggs, and numerous skeletal similarities.

Well, birds are not reptiles. A reptile is an air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrates that have skin covered in scales instead of hair or feathers. They are represented by four living orders: Crocodilia (crocodiles, gharials, caimans and alligators) Sphenodontia (tuataras) Squamata (lizards, snakes and amphisbaenids) Testudines (turtles and tortoises) Basing on this classification, the bird is not a reptile. I hope I was able to clarify the matter. I am herewith attaching a picture of a crocodile that I took when I visited a crocodile farm in our city.