12S Taxonomic Assignment with Ref Genome

Hi @lastewart ,
Welcome to the forum!

You could check NCBI GenBank for 12S seqs for birds. If it is sufficient enough, then RESCRIPt would be a good solution. See some examples here for making (non-bird) 12S databases with RESCRIPt:

You can check GenBank first to test out a query and see how many hits you get.

Good luck!