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passerine

📅 Updated:2025-05-22

🕒 Created:2020-03-13

🆔 ID:29585

Description

Passerines are birds of the order Passeriformes. These birds known as perching birds are divided into three orders: Passeri, Tyranni, and Acanthisitti. The Passeri contains the oscines, which are collectively known as song birds. Tyranni contains the suboscines, which are thought to be more primitive species than the Passeri. The vocalizations of these birds will sound more mechanical. The Acanthisitti is believed to be an ancient third group containing only the New Zealand wrens. Combined these three groups include over 6000 bird species.

Common Species (Incomplete)

bird_of_paradise
bowerbird
bushtit
callaeid
- kokako
  - north_island_kokako
cardinal_(bird)
certhioid
- gnatcatcher
- nuthatch
- treecreeper
- wren
corvid
- crow
- jay_(bird)
- raven
finch
hirundinid
- martin_(bird)
- swallow_(bird)
icterid
- cacique_(bird)
- cowbird
- grackle
  - greater_antillean_grackle
- meadowlark
- new_world_blackbird
- new_world_oriole
  - baltimore_oriole
  - montserrat_oriole
- oropendola
  - chestnut-headed_oropendola
lark_(bird)
lyrebird
malurid
- fairywren
mimid
- mockingbird
- thrasher_(bird)
old_world_flycatcher (Muscicapidae)
- chat_(bird)
- redstart
  - plumbeous_water_redstart
parrotbill (Paradoxornithidae)
robin_(bird)
sparrow
starling_(bird)
- myna_(bird)
tanager
- honeycreeper
thrush_(bird)
- bluebird
- turdus (true thrushes)
  - american_robin
tit_(bird)
- chickadee
warbler
zosteropid
- white-eye
  - warbling_white-eye (Z. japonicus) - Also known as the Japanese white-eye.

Taxon (Incomplete)

passerine (order)
- Acanthisitti (suborder)
  - Acanthisittidae (family)
    - new_zealand_wren
- Passeri (suborder) - The order contains the songbirds.
  - oscine - (Song birds).
    - bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchidae)
    - bulbul (Pycnonotidae)
    - bushtit (Aegithalidae)
    - calcariid
      - snow_bunting
    - cardinal_(bird) (Cardinalidae)
    - certhioid
      - gnatcatcher
      - nuthatch
      - treecreeper
      - wren
    - corvid
      - corvus_(genus)
        crow
        raven
      - jay_(bird)
    - crest_(bird) (Regulidae)
    - finch
      - estrildid (Estrildid finches)
      - true_finch (Fringillidae)
    - hirundinid
      - martin_(bird)
      - swallow_(bird)
    - icterid
      - cacique_(bird)
      - cowbird
      - grackle
        greater_antillean_grackle
      - meadowlark
      - new_world_blackbird
        bobolink
        red-winged_blackbird
        rusty_blackbird
        yellow-headed_blackbird
      - new_world_oriole
        baltimore_oriole
        montserrat_oriole
      - oropendola
        chestnut-headed_oropendola
    - lark_(bird) (Alaudidae)
    - leiothrichid
      - laughingthrush
    - lyrebird
    - malurid
      - fairywren
    - mimid
      - mockingbird
      - thrasher_(bird)
    - old_world_flycatcher (Muscicapidae)
      - chat_(bird)
      - redstart
        plumbeous_water_redstart
    - oxpecker (Buphagidae)
    - spindalid
      - spindalis (genus)
        western_spindalis
    - starling_(bird) (Sturnidae)
      - myna_(bird)
    - tanager (Thraupidae)
      - galápagos_finch
      - honeycreeper
    - thrush_(bird) (Turdidae)
      - bluebird
      - turdus (true thrushes)
        american_robin
    - tit_(bird) (Paridae)
      - chickadee
    - warbler
    - waxwing (Bombycillidae)
    - weaver_(bird) (Ploceidae)
    - zosteropid
      - white-eye
        warbling_white-eye (Z. japonicus) - Also known as the Japanese white-eye.
- Tyranni (suborder)
  - suboscine
    - Eurylaimides - Contains the Old World suboscines, and one New World species: (broad-billed_sapayoa)
      - old_world_suboscine
        asity (Philepittidae)
        broadbill
        asian_green_broadbill (Calyptomenidae)
        black_and_yellow_broadbill (Eurylaimidae)
        pitta (Pittidae)
    - Tyrannides - Contains the New World suboscines except one New World species: (broad-billed_sapayoa)
      - new_world_suboscine
        antbird (Thamnophilidae)
        antpitta (Grallariidae)
        antthrush_(Formicariid) (Formicariidae)
        furnariid
        hornero
        manakin (Pipridae)
        Sapayoidae (family)
        broad-billed_sapayoa (Sapayoa aenigma) - Also known as sapayoa.
        tyrant_flycatcher (Tyrannidae)
        phoebe_(bird)

Editor's Notes

It makes sense to alias Eurylaimides to Old World suboscine despite the one exception. Similarly Tyrannides can be aliased to New World suboscine.

External links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passerine

See also

avian
- bird
  - Psittacopasserae
    - passerine

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