oscine

📅 Updated:2026-09-01

🕒 Created:2020-12-30

🆔 ID:33436

Description

Commonly known as the [color=species]songbirds[/color], the [color=species]oscines[/color] are passerine birds belonging to the suborder [color=species]Passeri[/color].

Partial Taxonomy

Infraorder Climacterides

Family Climacteridae — Australasian treecreeper
Family Ptilonorhynchidae — bowerbird

Infraorder Corvides

Superfamily Corvoidea
- Family Corvidae — corvid
- Family Corcoracidae — Australian mudnester
- Family Dicruridae — drongo
- Family Ifritidae — blue-capped ifrit
- Family Laniidae — shrike
- Family Melampittidae — melampitta
- Family Monarchidae — monarch flycatcher
- Family Paradisaeidae — bird-of-paradise
- Family Platylophidae — crested jayshrike
- Family Rhipiduridae
Superfamily Orioloidea
- Family Eulacestomatidae — wattled ploughbill
- Family Falcunculidae — shriketit
- Family Oreoicidae — Australo-Papuan bellbird
- Family Oriolidae — Old World oriole
- Family Pachycephalidae
- Family Paramythiidae — painted berrypecker
- Family Psophodidae
- Family Vireonidae — vireo
Superfamily Malaconotoidea
- Family Aegithinidae
- Family Artamidae
- Family Machaerirhynchidae — boatbill
- Family Malaconotidae — bushshrike
- Family Pityriaseidae — Bornean bristlehead
- Family Platysteiridae
- Family Rhagologidae — mottled berryhunter
- Family Vangidae

Infraorder Meliphagides

Superfamily Meliphagoidea
- Family Acanthizidae — Australian warbler
- Family Dasyornithidae — bristlebird
- Family Maluridae — Australasian wrens
- Family Meliphagidae — honeyeater
- Family Pardalotidae — pardalote

Infraorder Menurid

Family Atrichornithidae — scrubbird
Family Menuridae — lyrebird

Infraorder Orthonynchides

Family Orthonychidae
Family Pomatostomidae — Australo-Papuan babbler

Infraorder Passerides

Parvorder Muscicapida

Superfamily Bombycilloidea
- Family Bombycillidae — waxwing
- Family Dulidae — palmchat
- Family Hylocitreidae — hylocitrea
- Family Hypocoliidae — hypocolius
- Family †Mohoidae — Hawaiian honeyeaters
- Family Ptiliogonatidae — silky-flycatcher
Superfamily Certhioidea
- Family Certhiidae — treecreeper
- Family Polioptilidae — gnatcatcher
- Family Salpornithidae — spotted creeper
- Family Sittidae — nuthatch
- Family Tichodromidae
- Family Troglodytidae — wren
Superfamily Muscicapoidea
- Family Buphagidae — oxpecker
- Family Cinclidae — dipper
- Family Elachuridae — spotted elachura
- Family Mimidae
- Family Muscicapidae — Old World flycatcher
- Family Sturnidae — starling
- Family Turdidae — thrush
Superfamily Reguloidea
- Family Regulidae

Parvorder Passerida

Superfamily Fringilloidea — nine-primaried oscine
- Family Calcariidae
- Family Calyptophilidae — chat-tanager
- Family Cardinalidae — cardinal
- Family Emberizidae — bunting
- Family Fringillidae — true finch
- Family Icteridae — New World blackbird
- Family Mitrospingidae
- Family Nesospingidae — Puerto Rican tanager
- Family Parulidae — New World warbler
- Family Passerellidae — New World sparrow
- Family Rhodinocichlidae — rosy thrush-tanager
- Family Spindalidae — spindalis
- Family Teretistridae — Cuban warbler
- Family Thraupidae — tanager
- Family Zeledoniidae — wrenthrush
Superfamily Passeroidea
- Family Motacillidae
- Family Passeridae — Old World sparrow
- Family Prunellidae — accentor
Superfamily Ploceoidea
- Family Estrildidae — estrildid finch
- Family Ploceidae — weaver
- Family Viduidae
Incertae sedis
- Family Chloropseidae — leafbird
- Family Dicaeidae — flowerpecker
- Family Irenidae — fairy-bluebird
- Family Modulatricidae
- Family Nectariniidae
- Family Peucedramidae — olive warbler
- Family Promeropidae — sugarbird
- Family Urocynchramidae — Przewalski's finch

Parvorder Sylviida

Superfamily Aegithaloidea
- Family Aegithalidae bushtit
- Family Cettiidae cettiid warbler
- Family Erythrocercidae
- Family Hyliidae
- Family Phylloscopidae — leaf warbler
Superfamily Hirundinoidea
- Family Hirundinidae
- Family Pnoepygidae — cupwing
Superfamily Locustelloidea
- Family Acrocephalidae
- Family Bernieridae — tetraka
- Family Donacobiidae — black-capped donacobius
- Family Locustellidae
Superfamily Sylvioidea
- Family Leiothrichidae — laughingthrush
- Family Paradoxornithidae — parrotbill
- Family Pellorneidae — ground babbler
- Family Pycnonotidae — bulbul
- Family Sylviidae
- Family Timaliidae — Old World babbler
- Family Zosteropidae — white-eye
Incertae sedis
- Family Alaudidae — lark
- Family Cisticolidae
- Family Hyliotidae — hyliota
- Family Macrosphenidae — African warbler
- Family Nicatoridae — nicator
- Family Panuridae — bearded reedling
- Family Paridae — tit
- Family Remizidae — penduline tit
- Family Stenostiridae — fairy flycatcher