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Qjure
Book:
Qjurious
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Passeriformes
Clades: Australaves; Aves; Animals.
Introduction
Passeriformes is a Order in Australaves.
Suborder Acanthisitti
• Acanthisittidae: New Zealand wrens
Suborder Tyranni (suboscines)
Infraorder Eurylaimides: Old World suboscines
Philepittidae: asities
Eurylaimidae: typical broadbills
Calyptomenidae: African and green broadbills
Sapayoidae: broad-billed sapayoa
Pittidae: pittas
Infraorder Tyrannides: New World suboscines
Parvorder Furnariida
Melanopareiidae: crescentchests
Conopophagidae: gnateaters and gnatpittas
Thamnophilidae: antbirds
Grallariidae: antpittas
Rhinocryptidae: typical tapaculos
Formicariidae: antthrushes
Furnariidae: ovenbirds and woodcreepers
Parvorder Tyrannida
Pipridae: manakins
Cotingidae: cotingas
Tityridae: tityras and allies
Tyrannidae: tyrant flycatchers
Suborder Passeri (oscines)
• Atrichornithidae: scrub-birds
• Menuridae: lyrebirds
• Climacteridae: Australian treecreepers
• Ptilonorhynchidae: bowerbirds
• Maluridae: fairywrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens
• Dasyornithidae: bristlebirds
• Pardalotidae: pardalotes
• Acanthizidae: scrubwrens, thornbills, and gerygones
• Meliphagidae: honeyeaters
• Pomatostomidae: pseudo-babblers
• Orthonychidae: logrunners
• Infraorder Corvides – previously Corvida
• Cinclosomatidae: jewel-babblers, quail-thrushes
• Campephagidae: cuckooshrikes and trillers
• Mohouidae: whiteheads
• Neosittidae: sittellas
• Superfamily Orioloide
• Psophodidae: whipbirds
• Eulacestomidae: wattled ploughbills
• Falcunculidae: shriketit
• Oreoicidae: Australo-Papuan bellbirds
• Paramythiidae: painted berrypeckers
• Vireonidae: vireos
• Pachycephalidae: whistlers
• Oriolidae: Old World orioles and figbirds
Superfamily Malaconotoidea
• Machaerirhynchidae: boatbills
• Artamidae: woodswallows, butcherbirds, currawongs, and Australian magpie
• Rhagologidae: mottled berryhunter
• Malaconotidae: puffback shrikes, bush shrikes, tchagras, and boubous
• Pityriaseidae: bristlehead
• Aegithinidae: ioras
• Platysteiridae: wattle-eyes and batises
• Vangidae: vangas
• Superfamily Corvoidea
• Rhipiduridae: fantails
• Dicruridae: drongos
• Monarchidae: monarch flycatchers
• Ifritidae: blue-capped ifrit
• Paradisaeidae: birds-of-paradise
• Corcoracidae: white-winged chough and apostlebird
• Melampittidae: melampittas
• Laniidae: shrikes
• Platylophidae: jayshrike
• Corvidae: crows, ravens, and jays
Infraorder Passerides, previously known as the parvorder Passerid
• Cnemophilidae: satinbirds
• Melanocharitidae: berrypeckers and longbills
• Callaeidae: New Zealand wattlebirds
• Notiomystidae: stitchbird
• Petroicidae: Australian robins
• Eupetidae: rail-babbler
• Picathartidae: rockfowl
• Chaetopidae: rock-jumpers
Parvorder Sylviida, previously known as the superfamily Sylviode
• Hyliotidae: hyliotas
• Stenostiridae: fairy flycatchers
• Paridae: tits, chickadees and titmice
• Remizidae: penduline tits
• Panuridae: bearded reedling
• Alaudidae: larks
• Nicatoridae: nicators
• Macrosphenidae: crombecs and African warblers
• Cisticolidae: cisticolas and allies
• Superfamily Locustelloidea
• Acrocephalidae: reed warblers, Grauer's warbler and allies
• Locustellidae: grassbirds and allies
• Donacobiidae: black-capped donacobius
• Bernieridae: Malagasy warblers
• Pnoepygidae: wren-babblers
• Hirundinidae: swallows and martins
• Superfamily Sylvioidea
• Pycnonotidae: bulbuls
• Sylviidae: sylviid babblers
• Paradoxornithidae: parrotbills and myzornis
• Zosteropidae: white-eyes
• Timaliidae: tree babblers
• Leiothrichidae: laughingthrushes and allies
• Alcippeidae: Alcippe fulvettas
• Pellorneidae: ground babblers
• Superfamily Aegithaloidea
• Phylloscopidae: leaf-warblers and allies
• Hyliidae: hylias
• Aegithalidae: long-tailed tits or bushtits
• Scotocercidae: streaked scrub warbler
• Cettiidae: Cettia bush warblers and allies
• Erythrocercidae: yellow flycatchers
Parvorder Muscicapida – previously known as the superfamily Muscicapoidea
• Superfamily Bombycilloidea
• Dulidae: palmchat
• Bombycillidae: waxwings
• Ptiliogonatidae: silky flycatchers
• Hylocitreidae: hylocitrea
• Hypocoliidae: hypocolius
• Mohoidae: oos
• Superfamily Muscicapoidea
• Elachuridae: spotted elachura
• Cinclidae: dippers
• Muscicapidae: Old World flycatchers and chats
• Turdidae: thrushes and allies
• Buphagidae: oxpeckers
• Sturnidae: starlings and rhabdornis
• Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers
• Regulidae: goldcrests and kinglets
• Superfamily Certhioidea
• Tichodromidae: wallcreeper
• Sittidae: nuthatches
• Certhiidae: treecreepers
• Polioptilidae: gnatcatchers
• Troglodytidae: wrens
Parvorder Passerida – previously known as the superfamily Passeroidea
• Promeropidae: sugarbirds
• Modulatricidae: dapple-throat and allies
• Nectariniidae: sunbirds
• Dicaeidae: flowerpeckers
• Chloropseidae: leafbirds
• Irenidae: fairy-bluebirds
• Peucedramidae: olive warbler
• Urocynchramidae: Przewalski's finch
• Ploceidae: weavers
• Viduidae: indigobirds and whydahs
• Estrildidae: waxbills, munias and allies
• Prunellidae: accentors
• Passeridae: Old World sparrows and snowfinches
• Motacillidae: wagtails and pipits
• Fringillidae: finches and euphonias
Superfamily Emberizoidea – previously known as the New World nine-primaried oscines
• Rhodinocichlidae: rosy thrush-tanager
• Calcariidae: longspurs, snow buntings
• Emberizidae: buntings
• Cardinalidae: cardinals
• Mitrospingidae: mitrospingid tanagers
• Thraupidae: tanagers and allies
• Passerellidae: New World sparrows, bush tanagers
• Parulidae: New World warblers
• Icteriidae: yellow-breasted chat
• Icteridae: grackles, New World blackbirds, and New World orioles
• Calyptophilidae: chat-tanagers
• Zeledoniidae: wrenthrush
• Teretistridae: Cuban warblers
• Nesospingidae: Puerto Rican tanager
• Spindalidae: spindalises
• Phaenicophilidae: Hispaniolan tanagers