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Order: Passeriformes (part 6)
145 families, 6704 species (53 extinct)
Passeriformes Family Groups on this page:
- Reguloid Oscines, 1 family, 6 species
- Certhioid Oscines, 5 families, 148 species
- Bombycilloid Oscines, 7 families (1 extinct), 16 species (5 extinct)
- Muscicapoid Oscines, 6 families, 686 species (9 extinct)
Family #204
Kinglets (Regulidae)
- Species: 6
- Distribution: Nearctic, Palearctic
- IOC family #211 (Goldcrests, Kinglets), HBW family #206 (Kinglets and Firecrests), H&M family #221
- Passeriformes Family Group: Reguloid Oscines
- wf253 status: 91% members ticked
- OH: 4 seen and photographed, first seen in Israel 1983
Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Corthylio calendula | .. |
Golden-crowned Kinglet | Regulus satrapa | .. |
Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | .. |
Flamecrest | Regulus goodfellowi | |
Madeira Firecrest | Regulus madeirensis | |
Common Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | .. |
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, USA; 2 Goldcrest, Israel; 3 Firecrest, Italy; 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet, Mexico
Family #205
Wallcreeper (Tichodromidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Palearctic endemic
- IOC family #217, HBW family #198 (included in Nuthatches), H&M family #227 (Nuthatches, Salpornises and Wallcreeper)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf253 status: 70% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen and photographed, first seen in Israel 1982
Wallcreeper | Tichodroma muraria | .. |
Wallcreeper, Israel 2016
Family #206
Nuthatches (Sittidae)
- Species: 29
- Distribution: Indomalaya, Nearctic, Palearctic
- IOC family #216, HBW family #198 (with Wallcreeper & Salpornises), H&M family #227 (Nuthatches, Salpornises and Wallcreeper)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf253 status: 97% members ticked
- OH: 14 seen, 13 photographed, first seen in Israel 1982
White-cheeked Nuthatch | Sitta leucopsis | |
Przevalski’s Nuthatch | Sitta przewalskii | |
Giant Nuthatch | Sitta magna | .. |
White-breasted Nuthatch | Sitta carolinensis | .. |
Beautiful Nuthatch | Sitta formosa | .. |
Blue Nuthatch | Sitta azurea | |
Velvet-fronted Nuthatch | Sitta frontalis | .. |
Yellow-billed Nuthatch | Sitta solangiae | |
Sulphur-billed Nuthatch | Sitta oenochlamys | |
Pygmy Nuthatch | Sitta pygmaea | .. |
Brown-headed Nuthatch | Sitta pusilla | . |
Bahama Nuthatch | Sitta insularis | |
Yunnan Nuthatch | Sitta yunnanensis | |
Algerian Nuthatch | Sitta ledanti | |
Krüper’s Nuthatch | Sitta krueperi | |
Red-breasted Nuthatch | Sitta canadensis | .. |
Corsican Nuthatch | Sitta whiteheadi | .. |
Snowy-browed Nuthatch | Sitta villosa | |
Western Rock Nuthatch | Sitta neumayer | .. |
Eastern Rock Nuthatch | Sitta tephronota | |
Siberian Nuthatch | Sitta arctica | |
White-browed Nuthatch | Sitta victoriae | |
White-tailed Nuthatch | Sitta himalayensis | .. |
Indian Nuthatch | Sitta castanea | |
Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch | Sitta cinnamoventris | .. |
Burmese Nuthatch | Sitta neglecta | .. |
Eurasian Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | .. |
Chestnut-vented Nuthatch | Sitta nagaensis | .. |
Kashmir Nuthatch | Sitta cashmirensis |
1 Pygmy Nuthatch, USA; 2 Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch, India; 3 Chestnut-vented Nuthatch, Thailand; 4 Eurasian Nuthatch, Netherlands; 5 Burmese Nuthatch, Thailand; 6 Beautiful Nuthatch, India; 7 Giant Nuthatch, Thailand; 8 White-tailed Nuthatch, India; 9 Velvet-fronted Nuthatch, Borneo, Malaysia; 10 White-breasted Nuthatch, USA; 11 Corsican Nuthatch, France; 12 Red-breasted Nuthatch, USA; 13 Rock Nuthatch, Israel
Family #207
Spotted Creepers (Salpornithidae)
- Species: 2
- Distribution: Afrotropical, Indomalaya
- IOC tba
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf253 status: tba
- OH: not seen yet
African Spotted Creeper | Salpornis salvadori | |
Indian Spotted Creeper | Salpornis spilonota |
Family #208
Treecreepers (Certhiidae)
- Species: 9
- Distribution: Indomalaya, Nearctic, Palearctic
- IOC family #218, HBW family #197 exclude Salpornises, H&M family #226 (Northern Hemisphere Treecreepers)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf253 status: 92% members ticked
- OH: 5 seen, 4 photographed, first seen in Poland 2008
Eurasian Treecreeper | Certhia familiaris | .. |
Hodgson’s Treecreeper | Certhia hodgsoni | |
Sichuan Treecreeper | Certhia tianquanensis | |
Brown Creeper | Certhia americana | . |
Short-toed Treecreeper | Certhia brachydactyla | .. |
Bar-tailed Treecreeper | Certhia himalayana | |
Rusty-flanked Treecreeper | Certhia nipalensis | |
Sikkim Treecreeper | Certhia discolor | .. |
Hume’s Treecreeper | Certhia manipurensis | .. |
1 Hume’s Treecreeper, Thailand; 2 Sikkim Treecreeper, India; 3 Eurasian Treecreeper, Ireland; 4 Short-toed Treecrerper, Spain
Family #209
Gnatcatchers (Polioptilidae)
- Species: 22
- Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropic
- IOC family #215, HBW family #199, H&M family #229
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf253 status: 85% members ticked
- OH: 10 seen, 6 photographed, first seen in Peru 2009
Collared Gnatwren | Microbates collaris | |
Tawny-faced Gnatwren | Microbates cinereiventris | . |
Long-billed Gnatwren | Ramphocaenus melanurus | . |
Chattering Gnatwren | Ramphocaenus sticturus | |
Guianan Gnatcatcher | Polioptila guianensis | |
Slate-throated Gnatcatcher | Polioptila schistaceigula | . |
Iquitos Gnatcatcher | Polioptila clementsi | |
Rio Negro Gnatcatcher | Polioptila facilis | |
Inambari Gnatcatcher | Polioptila attenboroughi | |
Klages’s Gnatcatcher | Polioptila paraensis | |
Masked Gnatcatcher | Polioptila dumicola | .. |
Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher | Polioptila lactea | |
Cuban Gnatcatcher | Polioptila lembeyei | .. |
Tropical Gnatcatcher | Polioptila plumbea | .. |
Marañon Gnatcatcher | Polioptila maior | |
Yucatan Gnatcatcher | Polioptila albiventris | |
White-browed Gnatcatcher | Polioptila bilineata | |
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Polioptila caerulea | .. |
Black-tailed Gnatcatcher | Polioptila melanura | .. |
California Gnatcatcher | Polioptila californica | .. |
Black-capped Gnatcatcher | Polioptila nigriceps | . |
White-lored Gnatcatcher | Polioptila albiloris |
1 Cuban Gnatcatcher, Cuba; 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Mexico; 3 California Gnatcatcher, USA; 4 Masked Gnatcatcher, Argentina; 5 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, USA; 6 Tropical Gnatcatcher, Peru
Family #210
Wrens (Troglodytidae)
- Species: 96
- Distribution: Indomalaya, Nearctic, Neotropic, Palearctic
- IOC family #214, HBW family #200, H&M family #228
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf253 status: 97% members ticked
- OH: 35 seen, 18 photographed, first seen in Israel 1983
Rock Wren | Salpinctes obsoletus | .. |
Nightingale Wren | Microcerculus philomela | . |
Scaly-breasted Wren | Microcerculus marginatus | |
Flutist Wren | Microcerculus ustulatus | |
Wing-banded Wren | Microcerculus bambla | |
Gray-mantled Wren | Odontorchilus branickii | |
Tooth-billed Wren | Odontorchilus cinereus | |
Canyon Wren | Catherpes mexicanus | .. |
Sumichrast’s Wren | Hylorchilus sumichrasti | |
Nava’s Wren | Hylorchilus navai | |
Zapata Wren | Ferminia cerverai | . |
Northern House Wren | Troglodytes aedon | . |
Cozumel Wren | Troglodytes beani | |
Kalinago Wren | Troglodytes martinicensis | |
St. Lucia Wren | Troglodytes mesoleucus | |
St. Vincent Wren | Troglodytes musicus | |
Grenada Wren | Troglodytes grenadensis | |
Southern House Wren | Troglodytes musculus | . |
Cobb’s Wren | Troglodytes cobbi | |
Socorro Wren | Troglodytes sissonii | |
Clarion Wren | Troglodytes tanneri | |
Rufous-browed Wren | Troglodytes rufociliatus | |
Ochraceous Wren | Troglodytes ochraceus | . |
Mountain Wren | Troglodytes solstitialis | . |
Santa Marta Wren | Troglodytes monticola | |
Tepui Wren | Troglodytes rufulus | |
Eurasian Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | .. |
Pacific Wren | Troglodytes pacificus | . |
Winter Wren | Troglodytes hiemalis | |
Timberline Wren | Thryorchilus browni | |
Sedge Wren | Cistothorus stellaris | |
Grass Wren | Cistothorus platensis | .. |
Merida Wren | Cistothorus meridae | |
Apolinar’s Wren | Cistothorus apolinari | |
Marsh Wren | Cistothorus palustris | .. |
Carolina Wren | Thryothorus ludovicianus | . |
Bewick’s Wren | Thryomanes bewickii | .. |
White-headed Wren | Campylorhynchus albobrunneus | |
Band-backed Wren | Campylorhynchus zonatus | .. |
Gray-barred Wren | Campylorhynchus megalopterus | |
Giant Wren | Campylorhynchus chiapensis | |
Russet-naped Wren | Campylorhynchus humilis | . |
Veracruz Wren | Campylorhynchus rufinucha | |
Rufous-backed Wren | Campylorhynchus capistratus | |
Spotted Wren | Campylorhynchus gularis | |
Boucard’s Wren | Campylorhynchus jocosus | |
Yucatan Wren | Campylorhynchus yucatanicus | |
Cactus Wren | Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus | .. |
Stripe-backed Wren | Campylorhynchus nuchalis | |
Fasciated Wren | Campylorhynchus fasciatus | . |
Bicolored Wren | Campylorhynchus griseus | |
Thrush-like Wren | Campylorhynchus turdinus | .. |
Sooty-headed Wren | Pheugopedius spadix | |
Black-bellied Wren | Pheugopedius fasciatoventris | . |
Plain-tailed Wren | Pheugopedius euophrys | . |
Gray-browed Wren | Pheugopedius schulenbergi | |
Inca Wren | Pheugopedius eisenmanni | |
Whiskered Wren | Pheugopedius mystacalis | |
Moustached Wren | Pheugopedius genibarbis | . |
Coraya Wren | Pheugopedius coraya | . |
Rufous-breasted Wren | Pheugopedius rutilus | . |
Spot-breasted Wren | Pheugopedius maculipectus | |
Speckle-breasted Wren | Pheugopedius sclateri | |
Happy Wren | Pheugopedius felix | .. |
Black-throated Wren | Pheugopedius atrogularis | |
Sinaloa Wren | Thryophilus sinaloa | |
Banded Wren | Thryophilus pleurostictus | |
Rufous-and-white Wren | Thryophilus rufalbus | .. |
Antioquia Wren | Thryophilus sernai | |
Niceforo’s Wren | Thryophilus nicefori | |
Stripe-breasted Wren | Cantorchilus thoracicus | |
Stripe-throated Wren | Cantorchilus leucopogon | |
Cabanis’s Wren | Cantorchilus modestus | |
Canebrake Wren | Cantorchilus zeledoni | |
Isthmian Wren | Cantorchilus elutus | .. |
Riverside Wren | Cantorchilus semibadius | |
Bay Wren | Cantorchilus nigricapillus | |
Superciliated Wren | Cantorchilus superciliaris | . |
Buff-breasted Wren | Cantorchilus leucotis | |
Long-billed Wren | Cantorchilus longirostris | .. |
Fawn-breasted Wren | Cantorchilus guarayanus | . |
Gray Wren | Cantorchilus griseus | |
Rufous Wren | Cinnycerthia unirufa | |
Sharpe’s Wren | Cinnycerthia olivascens | . |
Peruvian Wren | Cinnycerthia peruana | |
Fulvous Wren | Cinnycerthia fulva | |
White-bellied Wren | Uropsila leucogastra | |
White-breasted Wood-Wren | Henicorhina leucosticta | . |
Bar-winged Wood-Wren | Henicorhina leucoptera | . |
Gray-breasted Wood-Wren | Henicorhina leucophrys | .. |
Hermit Wood-Wren | Henicorhina anachoreta | |
Munchique Wood-Wren | Henicorhina negreti | |
Northern Chestnut-breasted Wren | Cyphorhinus dichrous | |
Southern Chestnut-breasted Wren | Cyphorhinus thoracicus | . |
Song Wren | Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus | |
Musician Wren | Cyphorhinus arada |
1 Rock Wren, USA; 2 Canyon Wren, Mexico; 3 House Wren, Brazil; 4 Eurasian Wren, Spain; 5 Isthmian Wren, Panama; 6 Long-billed Wren, Brazil; 7 Marsh Wren, Mexico; 8 Grass Wren, Argentina; 9 Bewick’s Wren, Mexico; 10 Gray-breasted Wood-Wren, Panama; 11 Rufous-and-white Wren, Panama; 12 Happy Wren, Mexico; 13 Thrush-like Wren, Brazil; 14 Rufous-naped Wren, Mexico; 15 Band-backed Wren, Mexico; 16 Cactus Wren, USA; 17 Song Wren, Panama
Family #211
Spotted Elachura (Elachuridae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Indomalayan endemic
- IOC family #212 (Elachura), HBW family #213 (Elachura), H&M family #218 (Scimitar Babblers and allies)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf253 status: 23% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen, 0 photographed, first seen in India 2018
- Finding Hints
Spotted Elachura | Elachura formosa | . |
Family #212
Dippers (Cinclidae)
- Species: 5
- Distribution: Indomalaya, Nearctic, Neotropic, Palearctic
- IOC family #224, HBW family #201, H&M family #233
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf253 status: 93% members ticked
- OH: 4 seen and photographed, first seen in Ireland 2008
White-throated Dipper | Cinclus cinclus | .. |
Brown Dipper | Cinclus pallasii | .. |
American Dipper | Cinclus mexicanus | .. |
White-capped Dipper | Cinclus leucocephalus | .. |
Rufous-throated Dipper | Cinclus schulzii |
1 American Dipper, USA; 2 Brown Dipper, India; 3 White-throated Dipper, Spain; 4 White-capped Dipper, Peru
Family #213
Oxpeckers (Buphagidae)
- Species: 2
- Distribution: Afrotropical endemic
- IOC family #221, HBW family #202, H&M family #230
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf253 status: 81% members ticked
- OH: 2 seen and photographed, first seen in Kenya 1983
Red-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus erythroryncha | .. |
Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus | .. |
1 Red-billed Oxpecker, South Africa; 2 Yellow-billed Oxpecker , South Africa
Family #214
Starlings (Sturnidae)
- Species: 125 (6 extinct)
- Distribution: Australasia, Afrotropic, Indomalaya, Palearctic (globally introduced)
- IOC family #220 (Starlings, Rhabdornises), HBW family #203, H&M family #232 (Starlings and Mynas)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf253 status: 98% members ticked
- OH: 54 seen, 40 photographed, first seen in Israel 1976
Stripe-sided Rhabdornis | Rhabdornis mystacalis | |
Long-billed Rhabdornis | Rhabdornis grandis | |
Stripe-breasted Rhabdornis | Rhabdornis inornatus | |
Visayan Rhabdornis | Rhabdornis rabori | |
Fiery-browed Myna | Enodes erythrophris | .. |
Finch-billed Myna | Scissirostrum dubium | .. |
Metallic Starling | Aplonis metallica | .. |
Yellow-eyed Starling | Aplonis mystacea | |
Tanimbar Starling | Aplonis crassa | |
Atoll Starling | Aplonis feadensis | |
Rennell Starling | Aplonis insularis | |
Long-tailed Starling | Aplonis magna | |
White-eyed Starling | Aplonis brunneicapillus | |
Brown-winged Starling | Aplonis grandis | |
Makira Starling | Aplonis dichroa | |
Rusty-winged Starling | Aplonis zelandica | |
Striated Starling | Aplonis striata | .. |
Pohnpei Starling | Aplonis pelzelni | |
Singing Starling | Aplonis cantoroides | .. |
Mountain Starling | Aplonis santovestris | |
Asian Glossy Starling | Aplonis panayensis | .. |
Moluccan Starling | Aplonis mysolensis | |
Short-tailed Starling | Aplonis minor | |
Micronesian Starling | Aplonis opaca | |
Polynesian Starling | Aplonis tabuensis | |
Samoan Starling | Aplonis atrifusca | |
Kosrae Starling | Aplonis corvina | exinct |
Rarotonga Starling | Aplonis cinerascens | |
Mysterious Starling | Aplonis mavornata | exinct |
Tasman Starling | Aplonis fusca | exinct |
Raiatea Starling | Aplonis ulietensis | exinct |
Sulawesi Myna | Basilornis celebensis | . |
Helmeted Myna | Basilornis galeatus | |
Long-crested Myna | Basilornis corythaix | |
Apo Myna | Goodfellowia miranda | |
Coleto | Sarcops calvus | |
White-necked Myna | Streptocitta albicollis | |
Bare-eyed Myna | Streptocitta albertinae | |
Yellow-faced Myna | Mino dumontii | .. |
Golden Myna | Mino anais | .. |
Long-tailed Myna | Mino kreffti | |
Golden-crested Myna | Ampeliceps coronatus | |
Sri Lanka Myna | Gracula ptilogenys | |
Common Hill Myna | Gracula religiosa | .. |
Tenggara Hill Myna | Gracula venerata | |
Southern Hill Myna | Gracula indica | |
European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | .. |
Spotless Starling | Sturnus unicolor | .. |
Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea | .. |
Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | .. |
Daurian Starling | Agropsar sturninus | |
Chestnut-cheeked Starling | Agropsar philippensis | |
Black-collared Starling | Gracupica nigricollis | .. |
Indian Pied Starling | Gracupica contra | .. |
Siamese Pied Starling | Gracupica floweri | . |
Javan Pied Starling | Gracupica jalla | |
White-faced Starling | Sturnornis albofrontatus | |
Bali Myna | Leucopsar rothschildi | |
Rodrigues Starling | Necropsar rodericanus | exinct |
Reunion Starling | Fregilupus varius | exinct |
White-shouldered Starling | Sturnia sinensis | |
Brahminy Starling | Sturnia pagodarum | |
Chestnut-tailed Starling | Sturnia malabarica | .. |
Malabar Starling | Sturnia blythii | |
White-headed Starling | Sturnia erythropygia | |
Red-billed Starling | Spodiopsar sericeus | |
White-cheeked Starling | Spodiopsar cineraceus | .. |
Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | .. |
Bank Myna | Acridotheres ginginianus | .. |
Burmese Myna | Acridotheres burmannicus | |
Vinous-breasted Myna | Acridotheres leucocephalus | . |
Black-winged Myna | Acridotheres melanopterus | |
Jungle Myna | Acridotheres fuscus | .. |
Javan Myna | Acridotheres javanicus | . |
Pale-bellied Myna | Acridotheres cinereus | |
Collared Myna | Acridotheres albocinctus | |
Great Myna | Acridotheres grandis | .. |
Crested Myna | Acridotheres cristatellus | .. |
Madagascar Starling | Hartlaubius auratus | .. |
Violet-backed Starling | Cinnyricinclus leucogaster | .. |
Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris | .. |
Pale-winged Starling | Onychognathus nabouroup | |
Neumann’s Starling | Onychognathus neumanni | |
Red-winged Starling | Onychognathus morio | .. |
Chestnut-winged Starling | Onychognathus fulgidus | . |
Waller’s Starling | Onychognathus walleri | . |
Tristram’s Starling | Onychognathus tristramii | .. |
White-billed Starling | Onychognathus albirostris | |
Bristle-crowned Starling | Onychognathus salvadorii | . |
Somali Starling | Onychognathus blythii | |
Socotra Starling | Onychognathus frater | |
Spot-winged Starling | Saroglossa spilopterus | |
Babbling Starling | Neocichla gutturalis | |
White-collared Starling | Grafisia torquata | |
Magpie Starling | Speculipastor bicolor | . |
Sharpe’s Starling | Pholia sharpii | |
Abbott’s Starling | Arizelopsar femoralis | |
Narrow-tailed Starling | Poeoptera lugubris | . |
Stuhlmann’s Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | .. |
Kenrick’s Starling | Poeoptera kenricki | . |
Black-bellied Starling | Notopholia corusca | .. |
Purple-headed Starling | Hylopsar purpureiceps | . |
Copper-tailed Starling | Hylopsar cupreocauda | |
Hildebrandt’s Starling | Lamprotornis hildebrandti | .. |
Shelley’s Starling | Lamprotornis shelleyi | |
Burchell’s Starling | Lamprotornis australis | . |
Rüppell’s Starling | Lamprotornis purpuroptera | .. |
Long-tailed Glossy Starling | Lamprotornis caudatus | .. |
Meves’s Starling | Lamprotornis mevesii | .. |
Ashy Starling | Lamprotornis unicolor | .. |
Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | . |
Principe Starling | Lamprotornis ornatus | |
Golden-breasted Starling | Lamprotornis regius | . |
Superb Starling | Lamprotornis superbus | .. |
Chestnut-bellied Starling | Lamprotornis pulcher | |
African Pied Starling | Lamprotornis bicolor | .. |
White-crowned Starling | Lamprotornis albicapillus | |
Fischer’s Starling | Lamprotornis fischeri | . |
Lesser Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chloropterus | |
Sharp-tailed Starling | Lamprotornis acuticaudus | |
Greater Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chalybaeus | .. |
Emerald Starling | Lamprotornis iris | |
Purple Starling | Lamprotornis purpureus | .. |
Cape Starling | Lamprotornis nitens | .. |
Bronze-tailed Starling | Lamprotornis chalcurus | .. |
1 Metallic Starling, Australia; 2 Common Hill Myna, Thailand; 3 Great Myna, Thailand; 4 Common Myna, Thailand; 5 Crested Myna, Spain; 6 Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling, Ghana; 7 Vinous-breasted Starling, Israel; 8 Black-collared Starling, Thailand; 9 Superb Starling, Tanzania; 10 Rosy Starling, Israel; 11 Violet-backed Starling, Ghana; 12 Striated Starling, New Caledonia; 13 Long-tailed Glossy Starling, Ghana; 14 Stuhlmann’s Starling, Uganda; 15 Chestnut-tailed Starling, Thailand; 16 Common Starling, Israel; 17 Rueppell’s Glossy-Starling, Uganda; 18 Purple Glossy Starling, Ghana; 19 Wattled Starling, South Africa; 20 Jungle Myna, india; 21 Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling, South Africa; 22 Tristram’s Starling, Israel; 23 African Pied Starling, South Africa; 24 Bank Myna, India; 25 Cape Glossy-Starling, South Africa; 26 Red-winged Starling, South Africa; 27 Spotless Starling, Portugal; 28 Slender-billed Starling, Uganda; 29 Meves’s Glossy-Starling, South Africa; 30 Madagascan Starling, Madagascar; 31 Ashy Starling, Tanzania; 32 Pied Myna, India
33 Golden Myna, Papua New Guinea; 34 Hildebrandt’s Starling, Tanzania; 35 Asian Glossy Starling, Borneo (MY); 36 Singing Starling, Papua New Guinea; 37 Yellow-faced Myna, Papua New; Guinea; 38 Fiery-browed Myna, Sulawesy (ID); 39 Finch-billed Myna, Sulawesy (ID); 40 Madagascar Starling, Madagascar
Family #215
Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)
- Species: 35
- Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropic
- IOC family #219, HBW family #204, H&M family #231
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf253 status: 89% members ticked
- OH: 14 seen, 13 photographed, first seen in USA 2002
Blue Mockingbird | Melanotis caerulescens | .. |
Blue-and-white Mockingbird | Melanotis hypoleucus | |
Black Catbird | Melanoptila glabrirostris | |
Gray Catbird | Dumetella carolinensis | .. |
Martinique Thrasher | Ramphocinclus brachyurus | |
St. Lucia Thrasher | Ramphocinclus sanctaeluciae | |
Scaly-breasted Thrasher | Allenia fusca | |
Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | .. |
Brown Trembler | Cinclocerthia ruficauda | |
Gray Trembler | Cinclocerthia gutturalis | |
Curve-billed Thrasher | Toxostoma curvirostre | .. |
Ocellated Thrasher | Toxostoma ocellatum | |
Brown Thrasher | Toxostoma rufum | . |
Long-billed Thrasher | Toxostoma longirostre | .. |
Cozumel Thrasher | Toxostoma guttatum | |
Bendire’s Thrasher | Toxostoma bendirei | |
Gray Thrasher | Toxostoma cinereum | |
California Thrasher | Toxostoma redivivum | .. |
LeConte’s Thrasher | Toxostoma lecontei | |
Crissal Thrasher | Toxostoma crissale | |
Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | .. |
Chilean Mockingbird | Mimus thenca | |
Patagonian Mockingbird | Mimus patagonicus | .. |
Chalk-browed Mockingbird | Mimus saturninus | .. |
White-banded Mockingbird | Mimus triurus | |
Brown-backed Mockingbird | Mimus dorsalis | |
Bahama Mockingbird | Mimus gundlachii | .. |
Galapagos Mockingbird | Mimus parvulus | |
Floreana Mockingbird | Mimus trifasciatus | |
Española Mockingbird | Mimus macdonaldi | |
San Cristobal Mockingbird | Mimus melanotis | |
Long-tailed Mockingbird | Mimus longicaudatus | .. |
Socorro Mockingbird | Mimus graysoni | |
Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus | .. |
Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | .. |
Pearly-eyed Thrasher, Puerto Rico 2022
Bahama Mockingbird, Cuba 2023
1 Chalk-browed Mockingbird, Argentina; 2 Long-tailed Mockingbird, Peru; 3 Patagonian Mockingbird, Argentina; 4 Gray Catbird, Mexico; 5 Long-billed Thrasher, USA; 6 Northern Mockingbird, USA; 7 Curve-billed Thrasher, Mexico; 8 Sage Thrasher, USA; 9 Blue Mockingbird, Mexico; 10 Tropical Mockingbird, Panama; 11 California Thrasher, USA
Family #216
Thrushes and Allies (Turdidae)
- Species: 192 (3 extinct)
- Distribution: Global
- IOC family #222 (Thrushes), HBW family #205 (Thrushes), H&M family #235 (Thrushes)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf253 status: 100% members ticked
- OH: 69 seen, 50 photographed, first seen in Israel 1976
Boulder Chat | Pinarornis plumosus | |
Grandala | Grandala coelicolor | .. |
Eastern Bluebird | Sialia sialis | . |
Western Bluebird | Sialia mexicana | .. |
Mountain Bluebird | Sialia currucoides | .. |
Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush | Stizorhina fraseri | . |
Finsch’s Flycatcher-Thrush | Stizorhina finschi | |
Red-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus rufus | .. |
White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | . |
Townsend’s Solitaire | Myadestes townsendi | . |
Brown-backed Solitaire | Myadestes occidentalis | .. |
Cuban Solitaire | Myadestes elisabeth | .. |
Rufous-throated Solitaire | Myadestes genibarbis | .. |
Black-faced Solitaire | Myadestes melanops | |
Varied Solitaire | Myadestes coloratus | |
Slate-colored Solitaire | Myadestes unicolor | |
Andean Solitaire | Myadestes ralloides | .. |
Kamao | Myadestes myadestinus | |
Amaui | Myadestes woahensis | exinct |
Olomao | Myadestes lanaiensis | |
Omao | Myadestes obscurus | |
Puaiohi | Myadestes palmeri | |
Long-tailed Thrush | Zoothera dixoni | . |
Alpine Thrush | Zoothera mollissima | .. |
Himalayan Thrush | Zoothera salimalii | |
Sichuan Thrush | Zoothera griseiceps | |
Geomalia | Zoothera heinrichi | . |
Dark-sided Thrush | Zoothera marginata | .. |
Long-billed Thrush | Zoothera monticola | |
Everett’s Thrush | Zoothera everetti | .. |
Sunda Thrush | Zoothera andromedae | |
White’s Thrush | Zoothera aurea | |
Scaly Thrush | Zoothera dauma | .. |
Amami Thrush | Zoothera major | |
Nilgiri Thrush | Zoothera neilgherriensis | |
Sri Lanka Thrush | Zoothera imbricata | |
Bonin Thrush | Zoothera terrestris | exinct |
Makira Thrush | Zoothera margaretae | |
Guadalcanal Thrush | Zoothera turipavae | |
Bassian Thrush | Zoothera lunulata | .. |
New Britain Thrush | Zoothera talaseae | |
Bougainville Thrush | Zoothera atrigena | |
Russet-tailed Thrush | Zoothera heinei | . |
Fawn-breasted Thrush | Zoothera machiki | |
Fruit-hunter | Chlamydochaera jefferyi | .. |
Purple Cochoa | Cochoa purpurea | |
Green Cochoa | Cochoa viridis | |
Sumatran Cochoa | Cochoa beccarii | |
Javan Cochoa | Cochoa azurea | |
Varied Thrush | Ixoreus naevius | .. |
Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus gracilirostris | |
Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus aurantiirostris | . |
Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus fuscater | |
Russet Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus occidentalis | . |
Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus frantzii | . |
Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus mexicanus | |
Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus dryas | |
Speckled Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus maculatus | |
Veery | Catharus fuscescens | . |
Gray-cheeked Thrush | Catharus minimus | |
Bicknell’s Thrush | Catharus bicknelli | |
Swainson’s Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | .. |
Hermit Thrush | Catharus guttatus | .. |
Wood Thrush | Hylocichla mustelina | . |
Black Solitaire | Entomodestes coracinus | |
White-eared Solitaire | Entomodestes leucotis | |
Rufous-brown Solitaire | Cichlopsis leucogenys | |
Aztec Thrush | Ridgwayia pinicola | |
Siberian Thrush | Geokichla sibirica | |
Pied Thrush | Geokichla wardii | |
Spotted Ground-Thrush | Geokichla guttata | |
Black-eared Ground-Thrush | Geokichla camaronensis | |
Gray Ground-Thrush | Geokichla princei | |
Crossley’s Ground-Thrush | Geokichla crossleyi | |
Oberländer’s Ground-Thrush | Geokichla oberlaenderi | |
Abyssinian Ground-Thrush | Geokichla piaggiae | |
Orange Ground-Thrush | Geokichla gurneyi | .. |
Spot-winged Thrush | Geokichla spiloptera | |
Ashy Thrush | Geokichla cinerea | |
Buru Thrush | Geokichla dumasi | |
Seram Thrush | Geokichla joiceyi | |
Chestnut-capped Thrush | Geokichla interpres | |
Enggano Thrush | Geokichla leucolaema | |
Chestnut-backed Thrush | Geokichla dohertyi | |
Orange-banded Thrush | Geokichla peronii | |
Slaty-backed Thrush | Geokichla schistacea | |
Rusty-backed Thrush | Geokichla erythronota | |
Red-and-black Thrush | Geokichla mendeni | |
Orange-headed Thrush | Geokichla citrina | .. |
Chinese Thrush | Turdus mupinensis | |
Ethiopian Thrush | Turdus simensis | . |
Groundscraper Thrush | Turdus litsitsirupa | .. |
Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | .. |
Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | .. |
African Bare-eyed Thrush | Turdus tephronotus | .. |
Somali Thrush | Turdus ludoviciae | |
Chinese Blackbird | Turdus mandarinus | . |
Kurrichane Thrush | Turdus libonyana | .. |
Comoro Thrush | Turdus bewsheri | |
Karoo Thrush | Turdus smithi | |
Yemen Thrush | Turdus menachensis | |
Olive Thrush | Turdus olivaceus | .. |
Redwing | Turdus iliacus | .. |
Mountain Thrush | Turdus plebejus | . |
Forest Thrush | Turdus lherminieri | |
Abyssinian Thrush | Turdus abyssinicus | .. |
Taita Thrush | Turdus helleri | |
Usambara Thrush | Turdus roehli | . |
Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | .. |
Yellow-legged Thrush | Turdus flavipes | .. |
Lawrence’s Thrush | Turdus lawrencii | |
Pale-breasted Thrush | Turdus leucomelas | .. |
Cocoa Thrush | Turdus fumigatus | |
Hauxwell’s Thrush | Turdus hauxwelli | |
White-throated Thrush | Turdus assimilis | . |
White-necked Thrush | Turdus albicollis | .. |
Pale-vented Thrush | Turdus obsoletus | |
Rufous-bellied Thrush | Turdus rufiventris | .. |
Spectacled Thrush | Turdus nudigenis | |
Ecuadorian Thrush | Turdus maculirostris | .. |
Varzea Thrush | Turdus sanchezorum | |
Clay-colored Thrush | Turdus grayi | .. |
Unicolored Thrush | Turdus haplochrous | |
Sulawesi Thrush | Turdus turdoides | . |
Black Thrush | Turdus infuscatus | |
Sooty Thrush | Turdus nigrescens | |
American Robin | Turdus migratorius | .. |
Rufous-backed Robin | Turdus rufopalliatus | .. |
Rufous-collared Robin | Turdus rufitorques | |
African Thrush | Turdus pelios | .. |
Grand Cayman Thrush | Turdus ravidus | exinct |
White-chinned Thrush | Turdus aurantius | |
Red-legged Thrush | Turdus plumbeus | .. |
Principe Thrush | Turdus xanthorhynchus | |
Sao Tome Thrush | Turdus olivaceofuscus | |
Taiwan Thrush | Turdus niveiceps | |
La Selle Thrush | Turdus swalesi | .. |
White-eyed Thrush | Turdus jamaicensis | |
Pale-eyed Thrush | Turdus leucops | |
Austral Thrush | Turdus falcklandii | .. |
Plumbeous-backed Thrush | Turdus reevei | |
Blacksmith Thrush | Turdus subalaris | |
Pantepui Thrush | Turdus murinus | |
Tristan Thrush | Turdus eremita | |
Creamy-bellied Thrush | Turdus amaurochalinus | .. |
Black-billed Thrush | Turdus ignobilis | .. |
Campina Thrush | Turdus arthuri | |
Marañon Thrush | Turdus maranonicus | |
Chestnut-bellied Thrush | Turdus fulviventris | |
Black-hooded Thrush | Turdus olivater | |
Andean Slaty Thrush | Turdus nigriceps | . |
Great Thrush | Turdus fuscater | .. |
Glossy-black Thrush | Turdus serranus | .. |
Chiguanco Thrush | Turdus chiguanco | .. |
Gray-winged Blackbird | Turdus boulboul | . |
Indian Blackbird | Turdus simillimus | |
Tickell’s Thrush | Turdus unicolor | |
Black-breasted Thrush | Turdus dissimilis | |
Japanese Thrush | Turdus cardis | |
Gray-backed Thrush | Turdus hortulorum | |
Pale Thrush | Turdus pallidus | |
Gray-sided Thrush | Turdus feae | |
Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | . |
Brown-headed Thrush | Turdus chrysolaus | |
Izu Thrush | Turdus celaenops | |
Mindoro Island-Thrush | Turdus mindorensis | |
Luzon Island-Thrush | Turdus thomassoni | |
Mindanao Island-Thrush | Turdus nigrorum | |
Christmas Island-Thrush | Turdus erythropleurus | |
Wallacean Island-Thrush | Turdus schlegelii | |
Sundaic Island-Thrush | Turdus javanicus | |
Moluccan Island-Thrush | Turdus deningeri | |
Papuan Island-Thrush | Turdus papuensis | . |
Bismarck Island-Thrush | Turdus heinrothi | |
Bougainville Island-Thrush | Turdus bougainvillei | |
Solomons Island-Thrush | Turdus kulambangrae | |
Vanikoro Island-Thrush | Turdus vanikorensis | |
White-headed Island-Thrush | Turdus pritzbueri | |
New Caledonian Island-Thrush | Turdus xanthopus | |
Tasman Sea Island-Thrush | Turdus poliocephalus | |
Samoan Island-Thrush | Turdus samoensis | |
Fiji Island-Thrush | Turdus ruficeps | |
Tibetan Blackbird | Turdus maximus | |
White-backed Thrush | Turdus kessleri | .. |
Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | .. |
White-collared Blackbird | Turdus albocinctus | .. |
Chestnut Thrush | Turdus rubrocanus | . |
Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | . |
Black-throated Thrush | Turdus atrogularis | .. |
Red-throated Thrush | Turdus ruficollis | |
Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | |
Naumann’s Thrush | Turdus naumanni |
1 Scaly Thrush, Thailand; 2 Olive-tailed Thrush, Australia; 3 Western Bluebird, USA; 4 Mountain Bluebird, USA; 5 Pale-breasted Thrush, Brazil; 6 Brown-backed Solitaire, Mexico; 7 Eastern Slaty Thrush, Brazil; 8 Rufous-throated Solitaire, Dominican Republic; 9 Ecuadorian Thrush, Ecuador; 10 Andean Solitaire, Peru; 11 Mistle Thrush, Denmark; 12 Yellow-legged Thrush, Brazil; 13 Eurasian Blackbird, Israel; 14 Black-throated Thrush, Israel; 15 Kurrichane Thrush, South Africa; 16 Song Thrush, England; 17 Hermit Thrush, USA; 18 Groundscraper Thrush, Ethiopia; 19 African Thrush, Uganda; 20 Black-billed Thrush, Ecuador; 21 Red-tailed Ant-thrush, Uganda; 22 Fieldfare, Israel; 23 Rufous-bellied Thrush, Brazil; 24 Abyssinian Thrush, Ethiopia; 25 Red-legged Thrush, Dominican Republic; 26 La Selle Thrush, Dominican Republic; 27 White-necked Thrush, Brazil; 28 Glossy-black Thrush, Ecuador; 29 Swainson’s Thrush, USA; 30 Orange Ground-Thrush, South Africa; 31 Creamy-bellied Thrush, Brazil; 32 Great Thrush, Peru; 33 Rufous-backed Robin, Mexico; 34 Redwing, Israel; 35 American Robin, USA; 36 White-collared Blackbird, India; 37 Grandala, India; 38 Dark-sided Thrush, Thailand; 39 Orange-headed Thrush, Thailand; 40 Varied Thrush, USA; 41 Olive Thrush, South Africa; 42 Clay-colored Thrush, USA; 43 Austral Thrush, Argentina; 44 Chiguanco Thrush, Argentina; 45 Alpine Thrush, India
46 African Bare-eyed Thrush, Tanzania; 47 Fruit-hunter, Borneo (MY); 48 Cuban Solitare, Cuba; 49 Island Thrush, Papua New Guinea; 50 Everett’s Thrush, Borneo (MY)
Family #217
Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)
- Species: 353
- Distribution: Afrotropic, Australasia, Indomalaya, Nearctic, Palearctic
- IOC family #223 (Chats, Old World Flycatchers), HBW family #206 (Old World Flycatchers and Chats), H&M family #234 (Chats and Flycatchers)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf253 status: 97% members ticked
- OH: 149 seen, 133 photographed, first seen in Israel 1976
Gray-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | |
Dark-sided Flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | |
Ferruginous Flycatcher | Muscicapa ferruginea | |
Asian Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa dauurica | .. |
Ashy-breasted Flycatcher | Muscicapa randi | |
Sumba Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa segregata | |
Brown-breasted Flycatcher | Muscicapa muttui | |
Sulawesi Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa sodhii | |
Brown-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa williamsoni | |
African Dusky Flycatcher | Muscicapa adusta | .. |
Little Flycatcher | Muscicapa epulata | |
Yellow-footed Flycatcher | Muscicapa sethsmithi | |
Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | .. |
Gambaga Flycatcher | Muscicapa gambagae | .. |
Swamp Flycatcher | Muscicapa aquatica | .. |
Cassin’s Flycatcher | Muscicapa cassini | .. |
Böhm’s Flycatcher | Myopornis boehmi | |
Ussher’s Flycatcher | Artomyias ussheri | . |
Sooty Flycatcher | Artomyias fuliginosa | |
Dusky-blue Flycatcher | Bradornis comitatus | .. |
Marico Flycatcher | Bradornis mariquensis | .. |
African Gray Flycatcher | Bradornis microrhynchus | .. |
Pale Flycatcher | Agricola pallidus | .. |
Chat Flycatcher | Agricola infuscatus | |
White-browed Forest-Flycatcher | Fraseria cinerascens | |
African Forest-Flycatcher | Fraseria ocreata | .. |
Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria griseigularis | . |
Gray Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria plumbea | .. |
Olivaceous Flycatcher | Fraseria olivascens | |
Chapin’s Flycatcher | Fraseria lendu | .. |
Tessmann’s Flycatcher | Fraseria tessmanni | |
Ashy Flycatcher | Fraseria caerulescens | .. |
Herero Chat | Namibornis herero | |
Silverbird | Empidornis semipartitus | . |
Fiscal Flycatcher | Sigelus silens | .. |
Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis ardesiacus | |
Nimba Flycatcher | Melaenornis annamarulae | |
Northern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis edolioides | .. |
Southern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis pammelaina | .. |
White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis fischeri | .. |
Angola Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis brunneus | |
Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis chocolatinus | .. |
Grande Comore Flycatcher | Humblotia flavirostris | |
White-tailed Alethe | Alethe diademata | |
Fire-crested Alethe | Alethe castanea | |
Karoo Scrub-Robin | Tychaedon coryphoeus | .. |
Forest Scrub-Robin | Tychaedon leucosticta | |
Brown Scrub-Robin | Tychaedon signata | |
Bearded Scrub-Robin | Tychaedon quadrivirgata | |
Miombo Scrub-Robin | Tychaedon barbata | |
Black Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas podobe | .. |
Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes | .. |
Kalahari Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas paena | . |
Brown-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas hartlaubi | . |
White-browed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas leucophrys | . |
Indian Robin | Copsychus fulicatus | .. |
Oriental Magpie-Robin | Copsychus saularis | .. |
Rufous-tailed Shama | Copsychus pyrropygus | |
Madagascar Magpie-Robin | Copsychus albospecularis | .. |
Seychelles Magpie-Robin | Copsychus sechellarum | |
Philippine Magpie-Robin | Copsychus mindanensis | |
White-rumped Shama | Copsychus malabaricus | .. |
Sri Lankan Shama | Copsychus leggei | |
White-crowned Shama | Copsychus stricklandii | .. |
Maratua Shama | Copsychus barbouri | |
Kangean Shama | Copsychus nigricauda | |
Andaman Shama | Copsychus albiventris | |
Larwo Shama | Copsychus omissus | |
White-browed Shama | Copsychus luzoniensis | |
Visayan Shama | Copsychus superciliaris | |
White-vented Shama | Copsychus niger | |
Black Shama | Copsychus cebuensis | |
White-tailed Flycatcher | Leucoptilon concretum | |
Nilgiri Sholakili | Sholicola major | |
White-bellied Sholakili | Sholicola albiventris | |
Large Niltava | Niltava grandis | .. |
Small Niltava | Niltava macgrigoriae | .. |
Fujian Niltava | Niltava davidi | |
Rufous-bellied Niltava | Niltava sundara | .. |
Rufous-vented Niltava | Niltava sumatrana | |
Chinese Vivid Niltava | Niltava oatesi | |
Taiwan Vivid Niltava | Niltava vivida | |
Blue-and-white Flycatcher | Cyanoptila cyanomelana | |
Zappey’s Flycatcher | Cyanoptila cumatilis | |
Matinan Flycatcher | Eumyias sanfordi | |
Blue-fronted Flycatcher | Eumyias hoevelli | .. |
Timor Blue Flycatcher | Eumyias hyacinthinus | |
Flores Jungle Flycatcher | Eumyias oscillans | |
Sumba Jungle Flycatcher | Eumyias stresemanni | |
Dull-blue Flycatcher | Eumyias sordidus | |
Nilgiri Flycatcher | Eumyias albicaudatus | |
Indigo Flycatcher | Eumyias indigo | .. |
Verditer Flycatcher | Eumyias thalassinus | .. |
Buru Jungle Flycatcher | Eumyias additus | |
Turquoise Flycatcher | Eumyias panayensis | .. |
White-gorgeted Flycatcher | Anthipes monileger | . |
Rufous-browed Flycatcher | Anthipes solitaris | |
Rück’s Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis ruckii | |
Blue-breasted Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis herioti | |
Rufous-breasted Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis camarinensis | |
Hainan Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis hainanus | |
White-bellied Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis pallidipes | |
Pale-chinned Flycatcher | Cyornis poliogenys | |
Pale Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis unicolor | .. |
Blue-throated Flycatcher | Cyornis rubeculoides | . |
Chinese Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis glaucicomans | |
Large Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis magnirostris | |
Hill Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis whitei | .. |
Javan Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis banyumas | |
Dayak Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis montanus | .. |
Meratus Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis kadayangensis | |
Sunda Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis caerulatus | |
Malaysian Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis turcosus | .. |
Palawan Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis lemprieri | |
Bornean Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis superbus | . |
Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis tickelliae | |
Indochinese Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis sumatrensis | .. |
Mangrove Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis rufigastra | .. |
Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis omissus | |
Kalao Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis kalaoensis | |
Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis brunneatus | |
Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis nicobaricus | |
Gray-chested Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis umbratilis | |
Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis olivaceus | |
Philippine Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis ruficauda | |
Sulu Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis ocularis | |
Crocker Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis ruficrissa | |
Banggai Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis pelingensis | |
Sula Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis colonus | |
White-bellied Robin-Chat | Cossyphicula roberti | .. |
Mountain Robin-Chat | Cossyphicula isabellae | |
Archer’s Robin-Chat | Dessonornis archeri | .. |
Olive-flanked Robin-Chat | Dessonornis anomalus | |
Cape Robin-Chat | Dessonornis caffer | .. |
White-throated Robin-Chat | Dessonornis humeralis | .. |
Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat | Cossypha cyanocampter | |
Rüppell’s Robin-Chat | Cossypha semirufa | .. |
White-browed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heuglini | .. |
Red-capped Robin-Chat | Cossypha natalensis | .. |
Chorister Robin-Chat | Cossypha dichroa | |
White-headed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heinrichi | |
Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | .. |
White-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha albicapillus | .. |
Angola Cave-Chat | Xenocopsychus ansorgei | |
Collared Palm-Thrush | Cichladusa arquata | |
Rufous-tailed Palm-Thrush | Cichladusa ruficauda | |
Spotted Morning-Thrush | Cichladusa guttata | .. |
European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | .. |
White-starred Robin | Pogonocichla stellata | .. |
Swynnerton’s Robin | Swynnertonia swynnertoni | |
Brown-chested Alethe | Chamaetylas poliocephala | |
Red-throated Alethe | Chamaetylas poliophrys | . |
Thyolo Alethe | Chamaetylas choloensis | |
White-chested Alethe | Chamaetylas fuelleborni | .. |
Olive-backed Forest Robin | Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus | |
Orange-breasted Forest Robin | Stiphrornis erythrothorax | |
Yellow-breasted Forest Robin | Stiphrornis mabirae | .. |
Gray-winged Robin-Chat | Sheppardia polioptera | . |
Short-tailed Akalat | Sheppardia poensis | |
Bocage’s Akalat | Sheppardia bocagei | |
Lowland Akalat | Sheppardia cyornithopsis | .. |
Equatorial Akalat | Sheppardia aequatorialis | |
Sharpe’s Akalat | Sheppardia sharpei | . |
East Coast Akalat | Sheppardia gunningi | |
Gabela Akalat | Sheppardia gabela | |
Usambara Akalat | Sheppardia montana | . |
Iringa Akalat | Sheppardia lowei | |
Rubeho Akalat | Sheppardia aurantiithorax | |
Bagobo Robin | Leonardina woodi | |
Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher | Vauriella gularis | .. |
Rusty-flanked Jungle Flycatcher | Vauriella insignis | |
Negros Jungle Flycatcher | Vauriella albigularis | |
Mindanao Jungle Flycatcher | Vauriella goodfellowi | |
Great Shortwing | Heinrichia calligyna | |
Rusty-bellied Shortwing | Brachypteryx hyperythra | |
Lesser Shortwing | Brachypteryx leucophris | .. |
Himalayan Shortwing | Brachypteryx cruralis | . |
Chinese Shortwing | Brachypteryx sinensis | |
Taiwan Shortwing | Brachypteryx goodfellowi | |
Philippine Shortwing | Brachypteryx poliogyna | |
Bornean Shortwing | Brachypteryx erythrogyna | .. |
Sumatran Shortwing | Brachypteryx saturata | |
Javan Shortwing | Brachypteryx montana | |
Flores Shortwing | Brachypteryx floris | |
Gould’s Shortwing | Heteroxenicus stellatus | |
Rufous-tailed Robin | Larvivora sibilans | |
Rufous-headed Robin | Larvivora ruficeps | |
Japanese Robin | Larvivora akahige | |
Izu Robin | Larvivora tanensis | |
Ryukyu Robin | Larvivora komadori | |
Okinawa Robin | Larvivora namiyei | |
Indian Blue Robin | Larvivora brunnea | |
Siberian Blue Robin | Larvivora cyane | .. |
White-throated Robin | Irania gutturalis | .. |
Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | .. |
Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | .. |
White-bellied Redstart | Luscinia phaenicuroides | |
Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | .. |
Sri Lanka Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus blighi | |
Shiny Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus melanurus | |
Javan Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus glaucinus | |
Sumatran Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus castaneus | |
Bornean Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus borneensis | .. |
Malayan Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus robinsoni | |
Malabar Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus horsfieldii | |
Taiwan Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus insularis | |
Blue Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus caeruleus | .. |
Little Forktail | Enicurus scouleri | .. |
White-crowned Forktail | Enicurus leschenaulti | .. |
Bornean Forktail | Enicurus borneensis | |
Spotted Forktail | Enicurus maculatus | |
Sunda Forktail | Enicurus velatus | |
Chestnut-naped Forktail | Enicurus ruficapillus | |
Black-backed Forktail | Enicurus immaculatus | .. |
Slaty-backed Forktail | Enicurus schistaceus | .. |
Firethroat | Calliope pectardens | |
Blackthroat | Calliope obscura | |
Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | .. |
Himalayan Rubythroat | Calliope pectoralis | |
Chinese Rubythroat | Calliope tschebaiewi | |
White-tailed Robin | Myiomela leucura | .. |
Sumatran Robin | Myiomela sumatrana | |
Javan Robin | Myiomela diana | |
Blue-fronted Robin | Cinclidium frontale | |
Red-flanked Bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | .. |
Qilian Bluetail | Tarsiger albocoeruleus | |
Himalayan Bluetail | Tarsiger rufilatus | .. |
Rufous-breasted Bush-Robin | Tarsiger hyperythrus | |
White-browed Bush-Robin | Tarsiger indicus | .. |
Taiwan Bush-Robin | Tarsiger formosanus | |
Golden Bush-Robin | Tarsiger chrysaeus | |
Collared Bush-Robin | Tarsiger johnstoniae | |
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher | Ficedula zanthopygia | |
Green-backed Flycatcher | Ficedula elisae | |
Narcissus Flycatcher | Ficedula narcissina | |
Ryukyu Flycatcher | Ficedula owstoni | |
Mugimaki Flycatcher | Ficedula mugimaki | .. |
Slaty-backed Flycatcher | Ficedula erithacus | |
Black-and-orange Flycatcher | Ficedula nigrorufa | |
Slaty-blue Flycatcher | Ficedula tricolor | . |
Snowy-browed Flycatcher | Ficedula hyperythra | .. |
Pygmy Flycatcher | Ficedula hodgsoni | .. |
Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher | Ficedula strophiata | |
Sapphire Flycatcher | Ficedula sapphira | |
Little Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula westermanni | .. |
Ultramarine Flycatcher | Ficedula superciliaris | |
Rusty-tailed Flycatcher | Ficedula ruficauda | |
Taiga Flycatcher | Ficedula albicilla | .. |
Kashmir Flycatcher | Ficedula subrubra | |
Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | .. |
Semicollared Flycatcher | Ficedula semitorquata | .. |
European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | .. |
Atlas Flycatcher | Ficedula speculigera | |
Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | .. |
Tanimbar Flycatcher | Ficedula riedeli | |
Rufous-chested Flycatcher | Ficedula dumetoria | |
Palawan Flycatcher | Ficedula platenae | |
Furtive Flycatcher | Ficedula disposita | |
Rufous-throated Flycatcher | Ficedula rufigula | |
Damar Flycatcher | Ficedula henrici | |
Cinnamon-chested Flycatcher | Ficedula buruensis | |
Lompobattang Flycatcher | Ficedula bonthaina | |
Sumba Flycatcher | Ficedula harterti | |
Black-banded Flycatcher | Ficedula timorensis | |
Little Slaty Flycatcher | Ficedula basilanica | |
Cryptic Flycatcher | Ficedula crypta | |
Bundok Flycatcher | Ficedula luzoniensis | |
Blue-fronted Redstart | Phoenicurus frontalis | .. |
Plumbeous Redstart | Phoenicurus fuliginosus | .. |
Luzon Redstart | Phoenicurus bicolor | |
Rufous-backed Redstart | Phoenicurus erythronotus | |
White-capped Redstart | Phoenicurus leucocephalus | .. |
Ala Shan Redstart | Phoenicurus alaschanicus | |
Blue-capped Redstart | Phoenicurus coeruleocephala | |
Moussier’s Redstart | Phoenicurus moussieri | |
Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | .. |
Hodgson’s Redstart | Phoenicurus hodgsoni | |
White-throated Redstart | Phoenicurus schisticeps | . |
White-winged Redstart | Phoenicurus erythrogastrus | |
Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | .. |
Daurian Redstart | Phoenicurus auroreus | .. |
Little Rock-Thrush | Monticola rufocinereus | |
Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush | Monticola rufiventris | .. |
White-throated Rock-Thrush | Monticola gularis | .. |
Blue-capped Rock-Thrush | Monticola cinclorhyncha | .. |
Short-toed Rock-Thrush | Monticola brevipes | |
Sentinel Rock-Thrush | Monticola explorator | |
Littoral Rock-Thrush | Monticola imerina | .. |
Amber Mountain Rock-Thrush | Monticola erythronotus | |
Forest Rock-Thrush | Monticola sharpei | .. |
Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | .. |
Blue Rock-Thrush | Monticola solitarius | .. |
Miombo Rock-Thrush | Monticola angolensis | |
Cape Rock-Thrush | Monticola rupestris | |
White-winged Cliff-Chat | Monticola semirufus | .. |
Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | .. |
White-browed Bushchat | Saxicola macrorhynchus | |
White-throated Bushchat | Saxicola insignis | |
Fuerteventura Stonechat | Saxicola dacotiae | |
European Stonechat | Saxicola rubicola | .. |
Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | .. |
Amur Stonechat | Saxicola stejnegeri | . |
African Stonechat | Saxicola torquatus | .. |
Reunion Stonechat | Saxicola tectes | |
White-tailed Stonechat | Saxicola leucurus | |
Pied Bushchat | Saxicola caprata | .. |
Jerdon’s Bushchat | Saxicola jerdoni | |
Gray Bushchat | Saxicola ferreus | .. |
Timor Bushchat | Saxicola gutturalis | |
Buff-streaked Chat | Campicoloides bifasciatus | |
Sickle-winged Chat | Emarginata sinuata | |
Karoo Chat | Emarginata schlegelii | .. |
Tractrac Chat | Emarginata tractrac | .. |
Moorland Chat | Pinarochroa sordida | . |
Mocking Cliff-Chat | Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris | .. |
Sooty Chat | Myrmecocichla nigra | .. |
Northern Anteater-Chat | Myrmecocichla aethiops | . |
Southern Anteater-Chat | Myrmecocichla formicivora | .. |
Congo Moor Chat | Myrmecocichla tholloni | |
Mountain Chat | Myrmecocichla monticola | . |
Rüppell’s Chat | Myrmecocichla melaena | |
Arnot’s Chat | Myrmecocichla arnotti | |
Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | .. |
Atlas Wheatear | Oenanthe seebohmi | |
Capped Wheatear | Oenanthe pileata | .. |
Buff-breasted Wheatear | Oenanthe bottae | |
Rusty-breasted Wheatear | Oenanthe frenata | .. |
Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | .. |
Heuglin’s Wheatear | Oenanthe heuglinii | |
Hooded Wheatear | Oenanthe monacha | .. |
Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | .. |
Western Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | .. |
Cyprus Wheatear | Oenanthe cypriaca | .. |
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe melanoleuca | . |
Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | .. |
White-fronted Black-Chat | Oenanthe albifrons | .. |
Somali Wheatear | Oenanthe phillipsi | |
Red-rumped Wheatear | Oenanthe moesta | .. |
Blackstart | Oenanthe melanura | .. |
Familiar Chat | Oenanthe familiaris | .. |
Sombre Rock Chat | Oenanthe dubia | |
Brown-tailed Chat | Oenanthe scotocerca | |
Brown Rock Chat | Oenanthe fusca | .. |
Variable Wheatear | Oenanthe picata | |
Black Wheatear | Oenanthe leucura | .. |
Hume’s Wheatear | Oenanthe albonigra | |
White-crowned Wheatear | Oenanthe leucopyga | .. |
Arabian Wheatear | Oenanthe lugentoides | |
Abyssinian Wheatear | Oenanthe lugubris | .. |
Finsch’s Wheatear | Oenanthe finschii | .. |
Mourning Wheatear | Oenanthe lugens | .. |
Kurdish Wheatear | Oenanthe xanthoprymna | .. |
Persian Wheatear | Oenanthe chrysopygia | .. |
click for bird names in the collage above:
1 Spotted Flycatcher, Israel;2 Asian Brown Flycatcher, Thailand; 3 Black Scrub-Robin, Israel; 4 Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin, Israel; 5 Oriental Magpie-Robin, Thailand; 6 White-rumped Shama, Thailand; 7 Hill Blue-Flycatcher, Thailand; 8 Indochinese Blue Flycatcher, Thailand; 9 Large Niltava, Thailand; 10 Small Niltava, Thailand; 11 Rufous-bellied Niltava, Thailand; 12 Verditer Flycatcher, Thailand; 13 European Robin, Israel; 14 Lesser Shortwing, Thailand; 15 Siberian Blue Robin, Thailand; 16 White-throated Robin, Israel; 17 Common Nightingale, Israel; 18 Bluethroat, Israel; 19 Blue Whistling-Thrush, Thailand; 20 Black-backed Forktail, Thailand; 21 Slaty-backed Forktail, Thailand; 22 Siberian Rubythroat, Thailand; 23 White-tailed Robin, Thailand; 24 Plumbeous Redstart, Thailand; 25 Red-flanked Bluetail, Finland; 26 Himalayan Bluetail, Thailand; 27 Little Pied Flycatcher, Thailand; 28 Taiga Flycatcher, Thailand; 29 European Pied Flycatcher, Israel; 30 Collared Flycatcher, Poland; 31 Semicollared Flycatcher, Israel; 32 Mugimaki Flycatcher, Thailand; 33 Red-breasted Flycatcher, Israel; 34 White-capped Redstart, Thailand; 35 Common Redstart, Israel; 36 Daurian Redstart, Thailand; 37 Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Uganda; 38 Black Redstart, Israel; 39 Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush, Thailand; 40 White-throated Rock-Thrush, Thailandl; 41 Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush, Israel; 42 Blue Rock-Thrush, Israel; 43 Whinchat, Israel; 44 European Stonechat, Israel; 45 Siberian Stonechat, Israel; 46 Pied Bushchat, Israel; 47 Gray Bushchat, Thailand; 48 Blackstart, Israel; 49 White-crowned Wheatear, Israel; 50 Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Ghana; 51 Black Wheatear, Spain; 52 Finsch’s Wheatear, Israel ; 53 Hooded Wheatear, Israel; 54 Northern Wheatear, Israel; 55 Mourning Wheatear, Israel; 56 Pied Wheatear, Israel; 57 Cyprus Wheatear, Israel; 58 Kurdish Wheatear, Israel; 59 Black-eared Wheatear, Israel; 60 Desert Wheatear, Israel; 61 Isabelline Wheatear, Israel; 62 Capped Wheatear, South Africa; 63 Red-breasted Wheatear, Ethiopia; 64 Red-rumped Wheatear, Israel; 65 Mountain Wheatear, South Africa; 66 African Stonechat, South Africa; 67 Karoo Chat, South Africa; 68 Tractrac Chat, South Africa; 69 Familiar Chat, South Africa; 70 Karoo Scrub-Robin, South Africa; 71 Cape Robin-Chat, South Africa; 72 White-browed Robin-Chat, Uganda; 73 White-throated Robin-Chat, South Africa; 74 Ruppell’s Robin-Chat, Ethiopia; 75 Red-capped Robin-Chat, Uganda; 76 White-bellied Robin-Chat, Uganda; 77 Archer’s Robin-Chat, Uganda; 78 Littoral Rock Thrush, Madagascar; 79 Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, Uganda; 80 Forest Robin, Uganda; 81 White-crowned Robin-Chat, Ghana; 82 White-starred Robin, Uganda; 83 Lowland Akalat, Uganda; 84 Sooty Chat, Uganda; 85 Mocking Cliff-Chat, Uganda; 86 White-winged Cliff-Chat, Ethiopia; 87 Pale Flycatcher, Uganda; 88 Cassin’s Flycatcher, Uganda; 89 Madagascar Magpie-Robin, Madagascar; 90 White-fronted Black-Chat, Ghana; 91 Chapin’s Flycatcher, Uganda; 92 Ashy Flycatcher, South Africa; 93 Northern Black-Flycatcher, Uganda; 94 Swamp Flycatcher, Uganda; 95 Abyssinian-Slaty Flycatcher, Ethiopia; 96 Madagascan Stonechat, Madagascar; 97 Gambaga Flycatcher, Ghana; 98 Southern Anteater-Chat, South Africa; 99 Mariqua Flycatcher, South Africa; 100 African Dusky Flycatcher, South Africa; 101 Fiscal Flycatcher, South Africa; 102 Blue-fronted Redstart, India; 103 Blue-capped Rock-thrush, India; 104 White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher, Uganda; 105 Forest Rock-Thrush, Madagascar; 106 African Forest-Flycatcher, Ghana; 107 Thrush Nightingale, Israel; 108 White-browed Bush-Robin, India; 109 Persian Wheatear, Israel; 110 Pygmy Flycatcher, India; 111 Pale Blue Flycatcher, India
112 Brown Rock Chat, India; 113 Bornean Whistling-Thrush, Borneo (MY); 114 Indian Robin, India; 115 Little Forktail, India; 116 Bornean Forktail, Borneo (MY); 117 White-crowned Forktail, Borneo (MY)
118 African Gray Flycatcher, Tanzania; 119 Southern Black-Flycatcher, Tanzania; 120 White-chested Alethe, Tanzania; 121 Abyssinian Wheatear, Tanzania; 122 Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 123 Spotted Morning-Thrush, Tanzania; 124 Red-backed Scrub-Robin, Tanzania; 125 Bornean Shortwing, Borneo (MY)
126 Blue-fronted Flycatcher, Sulawesy (ID); 127 Turquoise Flycatcher, Sulawesy (ID); 128 Snowy-browed Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 129 Dayak Blue Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 130 Indigo Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 131 Blue Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 132 Mangrove Blue Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 133 White-crowned Shama, Borneo (MY)
Family #218
Waxwings (Bombycillidae)
- Species: 3
- Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropic, Palearctic
- IOC family #175, HBW family #211, H&M family #223
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf253 status: 88% members ticked
- OH: 2 seen and photographed, first seen in USA 2007
Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | .. |
Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum | .. |
Japanese Waxwing | Bombycilla japonica |
1 Bohemian Waxwing, Norway ;2 Cedar Waxwing, USA
Family #not counted
Hawaiian Honeyeaters (Mohoidae) - extinct
- Species: 5 (5 extinct)
- IOC Family: Oos
Kauai Oo | Moho braccatus | (Extinct) |
Oahu Oo | Moho apicalis | (Extinct) |
Bishop’s Oo | Moho bishopi | (Extinct) |
Hawaii Oo | Moho nobilis | (Extinct) |
Kioea | Chaetoptila angustipluma | (Extinct) |
Family #219
Silky-flycatchers (Ptiliogonatidae)
- Species: 4
- Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropic
- IOC family #176, HBW family #212, H&M family #225
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf253 status: 77% members ticked
- OH: 4 seen and photographed, first seen in USA 2002
- Finding Hints
Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher | Phainoptila melanoxantha | .. |
Gray Silky-flycatcher | Ptiliogonys cinereus | .. |
Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher | Ptiliogonys caudatus | .. |
Phainopepla | Phainopepla nitens | .. |
1 Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher, Panama; 2 Phainopepla, USA; 3 Gray Silky-flycatcher, Mexico; 4 Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher, Panama
Family #220
Palmchat (Dulidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Neotropical endemic (Hispaniola)
- IOC family #178, HBW family #208, H&M family #222
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf253 status: 37% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen and photographed, first seen in Dominican Republic 2017
- Finding Hints
Palmchat | Dulus dominicus | .. |
Palmcaht, Dominican Republic 2017
Family #221
Hylocitrea (Hylocitreidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Australasia endemic (Sulawesy)
- IOC family #179, HBW family #210, H&M family #224 (Hypocolius and Hylocitrea)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf253 status: 25% members ticked
- OH: seen and photographed, first seen in Sulawesi, Indonesia 2023
- Finding Hints
Hylocitrea | Hylocitrea bonensis | .. |
Hylocitrea, Sulawesi, Indonesia 2023
Family #222
Hypocolius (Hypocoliidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Palearctic endemic
- IOC family #177, HBW family #209, H&M family #224 (Hypocolius and Hylocitrea)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf253 status: 43% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen and photographed, first seen in Israel 2011
- Finding Hints
Hypocolius | Hypocolius ampelinus |
Hypocolius, Israel 2015