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A songbird or oscine is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of Passeriformes
Passerine

A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines form one of the most diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders:...
 (ca. 4000 species), in which the vocal organ
Syrinx (biology)

Syrinx is the name for the vocal organ of birds. Located at the base of a bird's Vertebrate trachea, it produces sounds without the vocal cords of mammals....
 is developed in such a way as to produce various sound notes, commonly known as bird song
Bird song

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear....
. There is evidence to suggest that songbirds evolved about 50 million years ago in the western part of Gondwanaland that later became Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
 and Antarctica, before spreading around the world.

This 'bird song' is essentially territorial in that it communicates the identity and whereabouts of an individual to other birds and also signals sexual intentions.






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A songbird or oscine is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of Passeriformes
Passerine

A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines form one of the most diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders:...
 (ca. 4000 species), in which the vocal organ
Syrinx (biology)

Syrinx is the name for the vocal organ of birds. Located at the base of a bird's Vertebrate trachea, it produces sounds without the vocal cords of mammals....
 is developed in such a way as to produce various sound notes, commonly known as bird song
Bird song

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear....
. There is evidence to suggest that songbirds evolved about 50 million years ago in the western part of Gondwanaland that later became Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
 and Antarctica, before spreading around the world.

This 'bird song' is essentially territorial in that it communicates the identity and whereabouts of an individual to other birds and also signals sexual intentions. It is not to be confused with bird calls, which are used for alarms and contact, and are especially important in birds that feed or migrate in flocks.

Other birds have songs to attract mates or hold territory, but these are usually simple and repetitive, lacking the variety of many passerine songs. The monotonous repetition of the Common Cuckoo
Common Cuckoo

The Common Cuckoo is a member of the cuckoo order of birds, the Cuculiformes, which also includes the Geococcyxs, the ani , the coucals, and the Hoatzin....
 or Little Crake
Little Crake

The Little Crake is a very small waterbird of the family Rallidae.Their breeding habitat is reed beds in Europe, mainly in the east, and just into western Asia....
 can be contrasted with the variety of a Nightingale
Nightingale

The Nightingale , also known as Rufous and Common Nightingale, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae....
 or Marsh Warbler
Marsh Warbler

The Marsh Warbler, Acrocephalus palustris, is an Old World warbler in the genus Acrocephalus. It breeds in temperate Europe and western Asia....
.

Although many songbirds have songs which are pleasant to the human ear, this is not invariably the case. Many members of the crow
Crow

The true crows are large passerine birds that form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small dove-sized jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several offsh...
 family make croaks or screeches which sound harsh to humans.

Taxonomy


Under the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy
Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy

The Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy is a radical bird taxonomy proposed by Charles Sibley and Jon Edward Ahlquist. It is based on DNA-DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s....
 this suborder is divided into two "parvorders", Corvida
Corvida

The "Corvida" were one of two "parvorders" contained within the suborder Passeri, as proposed in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy. Standard taxonomic practice would place them at the rank of infraorder....
 and Passerida
Passerida

Passerida is under the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, one of two "parvorders" contained within the suborder Passeri . While more recent research suggests that its sister parvorder, Corvida, is not a monophyletic grouping, the existence of Passerida as a distinct clade is well accepted....
 (standard taxonomic practice would rank these as infraorders). However, more recent research is casting doubt on the existence of Corvida as a single clade
Clade

A clade is a term used in modern alpha taxonomy, the scientific classification of living and fossil organisms, to describe a monophyletic group, defined as a group consisting of a single common ancestor and all its descendants.The term "monophyletic group" is used in this article in the conventional sense of "an a...
, but given the present lack of any generally accepted redivision of Corvida into two or more groupings at the parvorderial level, the families of suborder Passeri are listed below as being in either Corvida or Passerida.

Families


Corvida
Corvida

The "Corvida" were one of two "parvorders" contained within the suborder Passeri, as proposed in the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy. Standard taxonomic practice would place them at the rank of infraorder....

  • Menuridae
    Lyrebird

    A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their superb ability to mimicry natural and artificial sounds from their environment....
    : lyrebird
    Lyrebird

    A Lyrebird is either of two species of ground-dwelling Australian birds, most notable for their superb ability to mimicry natural and artificial sounds from their environment....
    s
  • Atrichornithidae: scrub birds
  • Climacteridae: Australian treecreeper
    Treecreeper

    The treecreepers are a family of small passerine Avess, widespread in wooded regions of the Northern Hemisphere and sub-Saharan Africa. Their plumage is dull-coloured, and as their name implies, they climb over the surface of trees in search of food....
    s
  • Maluridae
    Maluridae

    The Maluridae are a family of small, insectivorous passerine birds endemic to Australia and New Guinea. Commonly known as wrens, they are unrelated to the wren of the Northern Hemisphere....
    : fairy-wrens, emu-wren
    Emu-wren

    The emu-wrens are a genus of bird in the fairy-wren family Maluridae. They are found only in Australia where they inhabit scrub, heathland and grassland....
    s and grasswrens
  • Meliphagidae: honeyeater
    Honeyeater

    The honeyeaters are a large and diverse family of small to medium sized birds most common in Australia and New Guinea, but also found in New Zealand, the Pacific islands as far east as Samoa and Tonga, and the islands to the north and west of New Guinea known as Wallacea....
    s and chat
    Chat

    Chat may refer to:...
    s
  • Pardalotidae: pardalote
    Pardalote

    Pardalotes are a family , Pardalotidae, of very small, brightly coloured birds native to Australia, with short tails, strong legs, and stubby blunt beaks....
    s, scrubwrens, thornbills, and gerygone
    Gerygone

    Gerygone, the gerygones, is a genus of bird in the Acanthizidae family. The genus ranges from South East Asia through New Guinea and Australia to New Zealand and the Chatham Islands....
    s
  • Petroicidae
    Petroicidae

    The bird Family Petroicidae includes roughly 45 species in about 15 genera. All are endemic to Australasia or nearby areas. For want of a more accurate common name, the family is often described as the Australasian robins: it extends beyond Australasia, however, and includes not just robins but the Jacky Winter, the New Zealand Tomtit,...
    : Australian robins
  • Orthonychidae
    Orthonychidae

    The Orthonychidae is a family of birds with a single genus, Orthonyx, which comprises three species of passerine birds Endemic to Australia and New Guinea, the Logrunners and the Chowchilla....
    : logrunners
  • Pomatostomidae: Australasian babbler
    Babbler

    Babbler may refer to:* Old World babbler, a large family of mostly Old World passerine birds* Australo-Papuan babbler, passerine birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea...
    s
  • Cinclosomatidae
    Cinclosomatidae

    The family Cinclosomatidae contains 9 species of passerine bird, including the 3 whipbirds, 2 wedgebills, and the quail-thrushes. All are native to Australia or nearby areas....
    : whipbirds and allies
  • Neosittidae: sittellas
  • Pachycephalidae
    Pachycephalidae

    The family Pachycephalidae, collectively the whistlers, includes the whistlers, shrike-thrushes, shrike-tits, pitohuis and Crested Bellbird, and is part of the ancient Australo-Papuan radiation of songbirds....
    : whistler
    Whistler

    Whistler may refer to:* Someone who whistling* Whistler Group, a brand name of mobile electronic equipment* Whistler , a very low frequency radio phenomenon....
    s, shrike-thrush
    Shrike-thrush

    Colluricincla is a genus of bird in the Colluricinclidae family.It contains the following species:* Bower's Shrike-thrush * Grey Shrike-thrush ...
    es, pitohui
    Pitohui

    Pitohui is a genus of birds endemic to New Guinea, belonging to the family Pachycephalidae.Currently six species are classified in the genus, though current molecular genetics research suggests that significant reclassification of the Pachycephalidae may be needed....
    s and allies
  • Dicruridae: monarch flycatchers and allies
  • Campephagidae: cuckoo shrikes and trillers
  • Oriolidae: orioles and Figbird
    Figbird

    The Figbird is a conspicuous and very common medium-sized passerine bird native to Indonesia, New Guinea, northern and eastern Australia, and the islands nearby....
  • Artamidae
    Artamidae

    The family Artamidae gathers together 20 species of mostly crow-like birds native to Australasia and nearby areas.There are two subfamilies: Artaminae, the woodswallows, are sombre-coloured, soft-plumaged birds that have a brush-tipped tongue but seldom use it for gathering nectar....
    : woodswallow
    Woodswallow

    Woodswallows are soft-plumaged, somber-coloured passerine birds found in Australia and the islands nearby. Given their moderate size—about the same as a Common Starling—and dull plumage, they are amongst the easiest of birds to observe and recognise....
    s, butcherbird
    Butcherbird

    Butcherbirds are magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus. They are native to Australasia. Their closest relatives are the Australian magpie and the three species of currawong....
    s, currawong
    Currawong

    Currawongs are medium-sized passerine birds of the family Artamidae native to Australasia. There are either three or four species . The common name comes from the call of the familiar Pied Currawong of eastern Australia and is Onomatopoeia....
    s and Australian Magpie
    Australian Magpie

    The Australian Magpie is a medium-sized black and white passerine bird native to Australia and southern New Guinea. It is closely related to the butcherbirds and currawongs of the family Artamidae....
  • Paradisaeidae: birds of paradise
    Bird of paradise

    The birds of paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes. They are found in eastern Indonesia, Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia....
  • Corvidae
    Corvidae

    Corvidae is a Cosmopolitan distribution family of oscine passerine birds that contains the crows, ravens, rook s, jackdaws, jays, magpies, treepies, Pyrrhocorax and nutcracker ....
    : crow
    Crow

    The true crows are large passerine birds that form the genus Corvus in the family Corvidae. Ranging in size from the relatively small dove-sized jackdaws to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia, the 40 or so members of this genus occur on all temperate continents and several offsh...
    s, magpie
    Magpie

    Magpies are passerine birds of the crow family , Corvidae. The names 'jay' and 'magpie' are to a certain extent interchangeable, although this does not accurately reflect the evolutionary relationship between these birds....
    s, and jay
    Jay

    The jays are several species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the crow family Corvidae. The names jay and magpie are somewhat interchangeable, and the evolutionary relationships are rather complex....
    s
  • Corcoracidae
    Corcoracidae

    The very small and rather unusual passerine family Corcoracidae now contains just two superficially dissimilar species: the White-winged Chough and the Apostlebird....
    : White-winged Chough
    White-winged Chough

    The White-winged Chough is one of only two surviving members of the Australian mud-nest builders family, Corcoracidae, and is the only member of the genus Corcorax....
     and Apostlebird
    Apostlebird

    The Apostlebird , also known as the Grey Jumper, is a quick-moving, gray or black bird about 13 inches long. It is a native to Australia where it roams woodlands, eating insects and seeds at, or near, ground level....
  • Irenidae: fairy-bluebird
    Fairy-bluebird

    The two fairy-bluebirds are small passerine bird species found in forests and plantations in tropical southern Asia and the Philippines. They are the sole members of the genus Irena and family Irenidae, and are related to the ioras and leafbirds....
    s
  • Laniidae: shrike
    Shrike

    Shrikes are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of thirty one species in three genus. The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for butcher, and some shrikes were also known as "butcher birds" because of their feeding habits....
    s
  • Vireonidae: vireo
    Vireo

    The vireos are a group of small to medium-sized passerine birds restricted to the New World. They are typically dull-plumaged and greenish in color, the smaller species resembling New World warbler apart from their heavier bills....
    s
  • Ptilonorhynchidae: bowerbird
    Bowerbird

    This article is about the species of bird called bowerbird. For the band, see Bowerbirds .Bowerbirds and catbirds make up the bird family Ptilonorhynchidae....
    s
  • Turnagridae
    Turnagridae

    Turnagridae is a disputed family which consisted of two species of Piopio, passerine birds endemism to New Zealand, both of which are now considered extinct....
    : Piopio
    Piopio

    Piopio may refer to the following:*Piopio, New Zealand, a town in the Waitomo District in the North Island of New Zealand.*a hill in the Ruahine Forest Park in New Zealand....


Passerida
Passerida

Passerida is under the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, one of two "parvorders" contained within the suborder Passeri . While more recent research suggests that its sister parvorder, Corvida, is not a monophyletic grouping, the existence of Passerida as a distinct clade is well accepted....

  • Alaudidae: lark
    Lark

    Larks are passerine birds of the family Alaudidae. All species occur in the Old World, including northern and eastern Australia; only one, the Shore Lark, has spread to North America, where it is called the Horned Lark....
    s
  • Chloropseidae: leafbird
    Leafbird

    The leafbirds are a family of small passerine bird species found in India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia. They are one of only three bird families that are entirely endemic to the Indomalayan ecozone....
    s
  • Aegithinidae: iora
    Iora

    The ioras are a family of small passerine bird species found in India and southeast Asia. They are one of only three bird families that are entirely endemic to the Indomalayan ecozone....
    s
  • Picathartidae: rockfowl
  • Eupetidae: rail-babbler
  • Mohoidae
    Mohoidae

    Mohoidae is a Family of Hawaiian species of Holocene extinction event Extinction, Nectarivore songbirds in the genera Moho and Kioea ....
  • Bombycillidae: waxwing
    Waxwing

    The waxwings form the genus Bombycilla of perching bird birds. According to most authorities, this is the only genus placed in the family Bombycillidae....
    s and allies
  • Ptilogonatidae: silky flycatchers
  • Cinclidae: dipper
    Dipper

    Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae. They are named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater....
    s
  • Motacillidae
    Motacillidae

    The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. There are around 65 species in 6 genus and they include the wagtails, longclaws and pipits....
    : wagtail
    Wagtail

    The wagtails form the passerine bird genus Motacilla. They are small birds with long tails which they wag frequently. Motacilla, the root of the family and genus name, means moving tail....
    s and pipit
    Pipit

    The pipits are a genus of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. The genus has more than three dozen species. Along with the wagtails and longclaws, the pipits make up the family Motacillidae....
    s
  • Prunellidae: accentor
    Accentor

    The accentors are in the only bird family, the Prunellidae, which is completely endemic to the Palearctic. This small group of closely related passerines are all in a single genus Prunella....
  • Melanocharitidae
    Melanocharitidae

    The Melanocharitidae, the berrypeckers and longbills, is a small bird family restricted to the forests of New Guinea. The family was once placed inside the Flowerpecker family Dicaeidae, and the longbills were once considered to be honeyeaters ....
    : berrypecker
    Berrypecker

    Berrypecker may refer to:*One of six species of berrypecker in the bird family Melanocharitidae*One of two species of painted berrypecker in the bird family painted berrypecker...
    s and longbill
    Longbill

    Longbill can refer to:*One of two species of longbill in the bird family Melanocharitidae*One of six species of longbill, African "warblers" in the genera Macrosphenus and Amaurocichla...
    s
  • Paramythiidae
    Paramythiidae

    The painted berrypeckers, Paramythiidae, are a very small bird family restricted to the mountain forests of New Guinea. The family comprises two species in two genus: the Tit Berrypecker and the Crested Berrypecker ....
    : tit berrypecker
    Tit Berrypecker

    The Tit Berrypecker is a species of bird in the Paramythiidae family. It is monotypic within the genus Oreocharis.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea....
     and crested berrypecker
    Crested Berrypecker

    The Crested Berrypecker is a species of bird in the Paramythiidae family.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests....
    s
  • Passeridae
    Sparrow

    The "true sparrows", the Old World sparrows in the family Passeridae, are small passerine birds. As eight or more species nest in or near buildings, and the House Sparrow and Eurasian Tree Sparrow in particular inhabit cities in large numbers, sparrows may be the most familiar of all wild birds....
    : true sparrow
    Sparrow

    The "true sparrows", the Old World sparrows in the family Passeridae, are small passerine birds. As eight or more species nest in or near buildings, and the House Sparrow and Eurasian Tree Sparrow in particular inhabit cities in large numbers, sparrows may be the most familiar of all wild birds....
    s
  • Estrildidae
    Estrildid finch

    The estrildid finches are small passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They can be classified as the family Estrildidae , or previously as a sub-group within the family Passeridae, which also includes the true sparrows....
    : estrildid finches (waxbills, munias, etc)
  • Parulidae: New World warbler
    Warbler

    There are a number of Passeriformes called "warblers". They are not particularly closely related, but share some characteristics, such as being fairly small, active and insectivorous....
    s
  • Thraupidae: tanager
    Tanager

    The tanagers are a family , Thraupidae, of birds in the order Passeriformes. The family has an Americas distribution.There were traditionally about 240 species of tanagers, but the taxonomic treatment of this family's members is currently in a state of flux....
    s and allies
  • Peucedramidae: Olive Warbler
    Olive Warbler

    The Olive Warbler, Peucedramus taeniatus , is a small passerine bird, the only member of the family Peucedramidae.This species breeds from southern Arizona and New Mexico, USA, south through Mexico to Nicaragua....
  • Fringillidae: true finch
    Finch

    Finches are passerine birds, often seed-eating, found mainly in the northern hemisphere and Africa. One subfamily is endemic to the Neotropics. The family scientific name Fringillidae comes from the Latin word "fringilla", meaning chaffinch, a member of this family that is common in Europe....
    es
  • Cardinalidae: cardinals
  • Drepanididae: Hawaiian honeycreeper
    Honeycreeper

    The typical honeycreepers are small birds in the tanager family. They are found in the tropical New World from Mexico south to Brazil.They occur in the forest canopy, and, as the name implies, they are specialist nectar feeders with long curved beaks....
    s
  • Emberizidae
    Emberizidae

    The Emberizidae are a large family of passerine birds.They are seed-eating birds with a distinctively shaped bill. In Europe, most species are named as Bunting ....
    : buntings and American sparrow
    Sparrow

    The "true sparrows", the Old World sparrows in the family Passeridae, are small passerine birds. As eight or more species nest in or near buildings, and the House Sparrow and Eurasian Tree Sparrow in particular inhabit cities in large numbers, sparrows may be the most familiar of all wild birds....
    s
  • Nectariniidae: sunbird
    Sunbird

    The sunbirds and spiderhunters are a family , Nectariniidae, of very small passerine birds. There are 132 species in 15 genus. The family is distributed throughout Africa, southern Asia and just reaches northern Australia....
    s
  • Dicaeidae: flowerpecker
    Flowerpecker

    The flowerpeckers are a family , Dicaeidae , of passerine birds. The family comprises two genera, Prionochilus and Dicaeum, with 44 species in total....
    s
  • Mimidae: mockingbird
    Mockingbird

    Mockingbirds are a group of New World passerine birds from the Mimidae family . They are best known for the habit of some species mimicking the songs of insect and amphibian sounds as well as other bird songs, often loudly and in rapid succession....
    s and thrasher
    Thrasher

    Thrashers are a New World group of perching bird birds related to mockingbirds and New World catbirds. Like these, they are in the Mimidae family ....
    s
  • Sittidae
    Sittidae

    Sittidae is a family of small passerine birds which has two subfamilies:*Sittinidae, which contains the single genus nuthatch containing about 24 species of nuthatches, which are found across Eurasia and North America....
    : nuthatch
    Nuthatch

    The nuthatches are a genus, Sitta, of small passerine birds belonging to the family Sittidae. Characterised by large heads, short tails, and powerful bills and feet, nuthatches advertise their territory using loud, simple songs....
    es
  • Certhiidae: treecreeper
    Treecreeper

    The treecreepers are a family of small passerine Avess, widespread in wooded regions of the Northern Hemisphere and sub-Saharan Africa. Their plumage is dull-coloured, and as their name implies, they climb over the surface of trees in search of food....
    s
  • Troglodytidae: wren
    Wren

    The wrens are passerine birds in the mainly New World family Troglodytidae. There are about 80 species of true wrens in about 20 genus, though the name is also ascribed to other unrelated birds throughout the world....
    s
  • Polioptilidae: gnatcatcher
    Gnatcatcher

    The 15-20 species of small passerine birds in the gnatcatcher family occur in North America and South America . Most species of this mainly tropical and subtropical group are resident, but the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher of the United States and southern Canada bird migration south in winter....
    s
  • Paridae: tits, chickadees and titmice
    Titmouse

    The tits, chickadees, and titmice comprise Paridae, a large family of small passerine birds which occur in the northern hemisphere and Africa....
  • Aegithalidae: long-tailed tit
    Long-tailed Tit

    The Long-tailed Tit, Aegithalos caudatus, is a very small passerine bird. It breeds in most of Europe and Asia. It is usually a bird migration species, although there have been several extralimital records, and migration has been observed in north-eastern Europe....
    s
  • Hirundinidae: swallow
    Swallow

    The swallows and martins are a group of passerine birds in the family Hirundinidae which are characterised by their adaptation to aerial feeding....
    s and martins
  • Regulidae: kinglet
    Kinglet

    The kinglets or crests are a small group of birds sometimes included in the Old World warblers, but are frequently given family status because they also resemble the titmouse....
    s
  • Pycnonotidae
    Bulbul

    Bulbuls are a family of medium-sized perching bird songbirds..Many forest species are known as greenbuls. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan....
    : bulbul
    Bulbul

    Bulbuls are a family of medium-sized perching bird songbirds..Many forest species are known as greenbuls. The family is distributed across most of Africa and into the Middle East, tropical Asia to Indonesia, and north as far as Japan....
    s
  • Phylloscopidae
    Phylloscopidae

    Phylloscopidae is a newly described family of small insectivorous birds formerly placed in the Old World warbler family . Its members occur in Eurasia, ranging into Wallacea and Africa ....
    : leaf-warblers and allies. Recently split from Sylviidae.
  • Sylviidae: Old World warbler
    Warbler

    There are a number of Passeriformes called "warblers". They are not particularly closely related, but share some characteristics, such as being fairly small, active and insectivorous....
    s
  • Hypocoliidae: Hypocolius
    Hypocolius

    The Grey Hypocolius is a small passerine bird species. It is the sole member of the genus Hypocolius and family Hypocoliidae....
  • Cisticolidae
    Cisticolidae

    The Cisticolidae family of small passerine birds is a group of about 110 warblers found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. They are often included within the Old World warbler family Sylviidae....
    : cisticola
    Cisticola

    Cisticolas are a genus of very small insectivorous birds formerly classified in the Old World warbler family Sylviidae, but now usually considered to be in the separate family Cisticolidae, along with other southern warbler genera....
    s and allies
  • Icteridae: American blackbirds
    Icterid

    The Icterids are a group of small to medium, often colourful passerine birds restricted to the New World. Most species have black as a predominant plumage colour, often enlivened by yellow, orange or red....
    , New World oriole
    New World oriole

    The genus Icterus is a group of birds in the Icteridae family. They are not related to the Old World orioles which are in the family Oriole, but are strikingly similar in size, diet, behaviour and their yellow-and-black Feather, a good example of convergent evolution, and almost inevitably took the same vernacular name....
    s, grackle
    Grackle

    A Grackle is a gregarious, passerine bird native to North America and South America. Each of the 11 species of grackle belongs to the Icterid family....
    s and cowbird
    Cowbird

    Cowbirds are birds belonging to the genus Molothrus in the family Icteridae. They are Brood parasite New World birds which are unrelated to the Old World cuckoos, one of which, the Common Cuckoo is the best-known brood parasitic bird....
    s.
  • Zosteropidae
    White-eye

    White-eye can refer to:*White-eye , a large family of birds.*White-eye , a species of fish.*White , a mutation in Drosophila melanogaster linked to the X chromosome, found by reciprocal cross breeding experiments in 1906....
    : White-eye
    White-eye

    White-eye can refer to:*White-eye , a large family of birds.*White-eye , a species of fish.*White , a mutation in Drosophila melanogaster linked to the X chromosome, found by reciprocal cross breeding experiments in 1906....
    s
  • Timaliidae: babbler
    Babbler

    Babbler may refer to:* Old World babbler, a large family of mostly Old World passerine birds* Australo-Papuan babbler, passerine birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea...
    s
  • Muscicapidae: Old World flycatcher
    Flycatcher

    There are various families of bird termed flycatchers:* The Old World flycatchers, Muscicapidae* The Tyrant-flycatchers, Tyrannidae* The Monarch flycatchers, Dicruridae...
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    Chat

    Chat may refer to:...
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  • Turdidae: thrush
    Thrush

    Thrush may refer to:...
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  • Sturnidae: starling
    Starling

    Starlings are found around the World, from Europe, Asia and Africa, to northern Australia and the islands of the tropical Pacific. Several European and Asian species have been introduced to these areas as well as North America, Hawaii and New Zealand, where they generally compete for habitat with native birds and are considered to be invasive spec...
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See also

  • bird song
    Bird song

    Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear....
  • bird vocalization
  • list of birds
    List of birds

    A phylogenetic tree of the modern birds, based on a recent study. Note the Polytomy.This page lists living Order and Family of birds....
  • Silence of the Songbirds
    Silence of the Songbirds

    Silence of the Songbirds is a book by bird lover and scientist Bridget Stutchbury about the rapid decline and loss of many species of songbirds....
     (book)
  • song system
    Song system

    A song system, also known as a song control system , is a series of discrete brain nuclei involved in the production and learning of song in songbirds....


External links

  • Tree of Life web project article July 31, 2006