Passeriformes Family Groups
Passeriformes (Passerines, perching birds or songbirds) order holds 142 bird families and 6595 species (Clements v2023), much more than all other bird Orders together. Following the phylogenetic hypothesis proposed in Lynx book, Bird Families of the World (Winkler, Billerman, Lovette 2015), Passeriformes is divided to 3 suborder and 12 groups:
Passeriformes Groups in Details:
Acanthissiti
Rifleman, New Zealand
Old World Suboscines
Velvet Asity, Madagascar
New World Suboscines
Giant Antpitta, Ecuador
Basal Oscines
Singing Honeyeater, Australia
Corvid Oscines
Rufous Vanga, Madagascar
Basal Passerid Oscines
Southern Scrub Robin, Australia
Sylvioid Oscines
Greater Necklaced Laughingthrush, Thailand
Reguloid Oscines
Firecrest, Italy
Certhioid Oscines
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren, Panama
Bombycilloid Oscines
Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher, Panama
Muscicapoid Oscines
Cyprus Wheatear, Israel
Passeroid Oscines
Blue-winged Mountain-Tanager, Ecuador
(although the hypothesis originally proposed for HBW taxonomy, it presented here by Clements families list)Â
Region key: #AF = Afrotropic, #AU = Australasia & Oceania, #IN = Indomalaya, #NA = Nearctic, #NT = Neotropic, #PA = PalearcticÂ
