Does any classification system group animals by their type of dwelling?

I have never heard of such a taxonomy, as the classifications by dwelling would involve a great deal of interspecies sorting. Yet it is an interesting approach.

For instance, “burrowing” would group certain owls with certain worms, while other owls would be grouped with nest builders, and other owls mixed with arboreal opportunists.

The best I can come up with is terrestrial which is typically applied for species that live primarily on the ground, in contrast to arboreal species, which live primarily in trees.

There are other less common terms that apply to specific groups of terrestrial animals:

Saxicolous are rock dwelling creatures.
Arenicolous creatures live in the sand.
Trogloxenes (or Troglobites) predominantly live in caves.
Then of course you have Aquatic for those critters that live underwater and amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats

Bird species can be divided into cavity nesters, ground nesters and nest builders.

Interesting question. (I nearly always like your questions, as who does not?)

I started looking to see “is there a particular set of adjectives to describe the nesting or home-building traits of various animals”, which led me to this link which lists so many different terms that, as I consider it, would make such a scheme of “classification” nearly impossible to describe. For one thing, think how some animal species change their homing activities during their life cycle. How would you classify, say, a butterfly or moth in such a way?

So it seems like an adjunct kind of classification, like simple tagging, where many tags may apply across many different species.

Not generally speaking. They’re classified by physical characteristics.

Well, here at my place the classification for the various animal species we have are, Horses: barn and pasture dwellers. Ducks & Geese: Barn and yard and pool dwellers, Chickens: coop dwellers and cats and dog: house and yard dwellers. lol

I was thinking scientific classification…

@Dutchess_III I know, just being humorous, I answered above, seriously, about bird species.