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Is this a complex sentence with a relative clause?

I have a sentence here:

“I don’t understand why you like birds.”

Upon analyzing the sentence structure, there is what appears to be a relative clause:

“why you like birds”

Is this then a complex sentence because this is a dependent clause? What part of speech is “why” in this situation?