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Top: Science: Biology: Flora_and_Fauna: Animalia: Chordata: Aves: Passeriformes
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The taxonomic order commonly referred to as passerines, perching birds, or song birds.
This family of birds consists of the New Zealand wrens, including the Rifleman, Bush Wren, South Island Wren, and Stephens Island Wren.
This family of birds includes the larks.
This family of birds includes waxwings and allies.
This family of birds consists of the New Zealand Wattlebirds, including the Kokako, Saddleback, and Huia. The Huia is extinct.
This family of birds includes cuckoo-shrikes, minivets, and trillers.
This family of birds includes the cardinals and New World buntings.
This family of birds includes some species of creepers and wrens.
Family of warblers from the warmer parts of the Old World.
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This category deals with the biology of birds in the family Corvidae. Corvids include:
- Crows (Genus Corvus)
- Ravens (Genus Corvus)
- Jays (Genera Platylophus, Gymnorhinus, Cyanocitta, Aphelocoma, Cyanolyca, Cyanocorax, Garrulus, and Perisoreus)
- Magpies (Genera Pica, Platysmurus, Cissa, Urocissa, and Cyanopica)
- Treepies (Genera Dendrocitta, Crypsirina, and Temnurus)
- Various Magpie-Jays, Bush-Crows, Ground-Jays, Nutcrackers, Choughs, Piapiacs, Jackdaws, and Rooks.
The typical corvid is an insectivore or omnivore, nesting in trees, and raising one clutch a year.
This family of birds includes flowerpeckers, berrypeckers, and allies.
Buntings and New World sparrows.
This family of birds includes the Australasian Robins.
Family of small passerine birds.
Large bird family, commonly referred to as the finch family (and allied species).
This family of birds includes swallows, martins, and allies.
New World blackbirds.
This family of birds includes shrikes and fiscals.
This family of birds includes fairy-wrens, emu-wrens, and grasswrens.
This family of birds includes honeyeaters, myzomelas, friarbirds, wattlebirds, and other species.
Family of ground-dwelling Australian birds, the lyrebirds.
This family of birds includes mockingbirds, thrashers, tremblers, and the Gray Catbird.
This family of birds includes the pipits, wagtails, and longclaws.
Family of Old World flycatchers.
Family of perching birds, the sunbirds and spiderhunters, found mainly in the tropical parts of the Old World.
This family of birds includes the Australian warblers.Note that Sibley and Monroe combine the Acanthizidae family with the Pardalotidae family. We list them separately.
This family of birds includes the chickadees, tits, and titmice.
This family of birds includes the New World warblers.
This family of birds includes Old World sparrows, three species of weavers, the Pale Rockfinch, and the Mountain Firetail.
The Pittas - a small family of 24-32 species native to the forests of Africa, Asia, and Australia.
This family of birds includes weavers, bishops, widowbirds, fodies, malimbes, queleas, and allies.
Family of nocturnal birds.
This family of birds includes the accentors.
Family of birds found in Australia and New Guinea, the bowerbirds and catbirds.
Family of perching birds, the bulbuls, distributed across Africa and much of southern Asia.
This family of birds includes the nuthatches, sittellas, and the Wallcreeper.
This bird family includes starlings, mynas, and allies.
This family of birds includes the tanagers.
Family of passerine birds, the babblers.
This family of birds includes most species of wrens.
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This category is for species of the family Turdidae which includes the following genera: Luscinia, Tarsiger, Copsychus, Oenanthe, Saxicola, Sialia, Myadestes, Catharus, Hylocichla, Turdus, Cichlherminia, Ixoreus, and Ridgwayia. This follows the taxonomy of the American Ornithologists' Union (A.O.U). |
This family of birds is known as the Thrush family and includes species such as the Bluebirds, Solitaires, Robins, and, of course, the Thrushes.
Tyrant Flycatchers and Allies
This family of birds includes the vireos, peppershrikes, and greenlets.
This family of birds includes the white-eyes, the speirops, the Mountain Blackeye, Silvereye, and Cinnamon Ibon.
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