Order Passeriformes perching birds 5700 species

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Order Passeriformes - perching birds gt5700
species Acanthisittidae - New Zealand Wrens,
sister to all others Suborder Tyranni -
suboscines Tyrannides - New World
suboscines Eurylaimides - Old World
suboscines Suborder Passeri - oscines or
songbirds Corvida (paraphyletic to
Passerida) various Australian families (e.g.,
Ptilonorhynchidae, Menuridae, Meliphagidae) core-
Corvoidea - crow relatives
Passerida Passeroidea - weaver
relatives Muscicapoidea - thrush
relatives Sylvioidea - Old World insect
eaters
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Acanthisittidae - New Zealand Wrens 3 spp. (many
more extinct), endemic to New Zealand, sister to
all other passerines, assumed by many to date to
the Cretaceous, small, nonmigratory, eat
invertebrates, mostly terrestrial but roost in
trees, poor fliers (one flightless), males
polygynous, female parental care only,
accomplished mimics
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Suborder Tyranni - suboscines Tyrannides -
New World suboscines - 1150 spp. primarily in
South American, only one family in No.
America numerous examples of convergence with
oscines Families Tyrannidae - tyrant
flycatchers Tityridae - tityras Pipridae -
manakins Cotingidae - cotingas Furnariidae -
ovenbirds Formicariidae - ground
antbirds Thanmnophilidae - antbirds Dendrocola
ptidae - woodcreepers Conopophagidae - gnat
eaters Rhinocryptidae - tapaculos
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Tyrannidae - tyrant flycatchers 367 spp. the
Americas small, most drab greenish, most sexually
monomorphic, solitary, arboreal, somewhat broad
flat bill, prominent rictal bristles, hawk
insects in flight, temperate species migratory
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Tyrannidae - some of the more colorful species
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Tityridae - tityras and beccards 23 spp
Neotropical forests
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Pipridae - manakins 52 spp Neotropical
forests small, tail short, flock, primaries
modified to make noise sexually dimorphic,
polygamous, cooperative lek, eat berries and
insects
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Cotingidae - cotingas and bellbirds, 69 spp.
Neotropical high forest canopy, LOUD, eat fruit
and insects, spectacular plumages, many sexually
dimorphic and polygamous
bellbirds
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Cotingidae - cock-of-the-rocks
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Cotingidae - cotingas
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Furnariidae - ovenbirds 280 spp.
Neotropics small, somber brown, insectivorous,
arboreal or terrestrial, biparental care, named
for the elaborate (usually mud) nests they build
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some ovenbird nests
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Formicariidae - ground antbirds 56 spp.
Neotropics long legs, stubby tail, drab or dark
plumage, terrestrial, insectivorous, follow army
ants, often form mixed species flocks for optimal
foraging
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Thamnophilidae - arboreal antbirds spp.
Neotropics
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Dendrocolaptidae - woodcreepers 49 spp.
Neotropics brown, streaked, long straight or
decurved bill, stiffened rectrices, glean insects
from tree trunks, often in mixed species flocks
with antbirds
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Conopophagidae gnateaters 8 spp
Neotropics lowland forest undergrowth, small,
insectivorous
Rhinocryptidae tapaculos 28 spp. So.
America Andes Mtns. Western So. America, mostly
insectivorous terrestrial, scratch at ground like
chicken, run with tail erect
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Eurylaimides - Old World suboscines Eurylaimidae
- broadbills 14 spp Africa, Asia,
Indonesia Philepittidae - asities 4 spp
Madagascar Pittidae - pittas 31 spp Africa, Asia,
Australia
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Eurylaimidae - broadbills 14 spp Africa, Asia,
Indonesia small, arboreal, sedentary,
barbet-like, eat insects, fruits, berries, small
vertebrates, tame, among the most colorful of all
birds
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Eurylaimidae - broadbills
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Pittidae - pittas 31 spp Africa, Asia,
Australia terrestrial, long legs, stubby tail,
like ant-pittas except colorful, eat
invertebrates and small vertebrates
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Philepittidae - asities 4 spp Madagascar
forests arboreal, quiet and tame, eat fruit
berries, nectar, breeding little unknown
Neodrepanis - false sunbird
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Philepitta - velvet asity
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Suborder Passeri - oscines or songbirds
Corvida (paraphyletic to Passerida) various
Australian families (e.g., Ptilonorhynchidae,
Menuridae, Meliphagidae) core-Corvoidea - crow
relatives Passerida Passeroidea - weaver
relatives Muscicapoidea - thrush
relatives Sylvioidea - Old World insect eaters
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Corvida Ptilonorhynchidae bowerbirds 17 spp. New
Guinea and Northern Australia terrestrial,
sexually dichromatic, polygamous,male builds
bower for display to attract females, nest
building and parental care entirely by female
with few exceptions
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Bowerbird bowers - not a nest
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Corvida Menuridae - lyrebirds 2 spp. Australia
large, brown, terrestrial, long straight claws,
sexually dimorphic, lyre-like tail of male used
in display, held over head possibly the most
accomplished mimics of all birds, polygamous,
nest building and parental care by female alone
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male lyrebird displaying
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Corvida Meliphagidae - honey eaters 182 spp.
Australia and Pacific islands small, arboreal,
nectivorous and insectivorous, many with white
ears
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Meliphagidae - friarbirds, wattlebirds, etc.
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Suborder Passeri - oscines or songbirds
Corvida core-Corvoidea - crow relatives for
example, families Corvidae - crows and jays 102
spp. worldwide Vireonidae - vireos 51 spp. New
World Laniidae - shrikes 30 spp. No. America,
Eurasia, Africa Irenidae - fairy-bluebirds,
leafbirds 10 spp. Southeast Asia Dicruridae -
drongos 24 spp. Africa, Asia, Australia,
Malaysia Cracticidae - butcherbirds 10 spp.
Australia, New Guinea Grallinidae -
mudnest-builders 4 spp. Australia, New
Guinea Paradisaeidae - birds-of-paradise 40 spp.
Australia, New Guinea
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Corvidae - crows, jays, nutcrackers, magpies,
treepies 102 spp. worldwide nostrils feathered,
small to large, very intellegent,
opportunistic, bold, inquisitive, adaptable, many
gregarious, some social, mostly omnivorous or
somewhat predatory, some mimicry
Crows and ravens
choughs
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Corvidae - jays
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Corvidae - jays and nutcrackers
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Corvidae - magpies
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Corvidae - treepies
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Vireonidae - vireos 51 spp. New World drab
olive, gray, yellow, solitary, melodius,
secretive, eat insects and berries
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Laniidae - shrikes or butcherbirds 64 spp.
North America, Eurasia, Africa, New Guinea large
head, hooked bill, notched tomium, powerful
claws, predatory most with face-mask or black cap
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Irenidae - fairy-bluebirds, leafbirds 10 spp.
Southeast Asia
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Dicruridae - drongos 24 spp. Africa, Asia,
Australia, Malaysia most black with iridescence,
fan or racquette tail, hawk insects in flight
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Cracticidae - butcherbirds 10 spp. Australia, New
Guinea
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Grallinidae - mudnest-builders 4 spp. Australia,
New Guinea eat insects and seeds mostly on ground
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Paradisaeidae birds-of-paradise 40 spp. Australia
New Guinea sexual selection run amoc, sexually
dimorphic, polygamous
genus Cicinnurus
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Paradisaeidae birds-of-paradise genus Diphyllodes
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Paradisaeidae birds-of-paradise genus Paradisaea
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Paradisaeidae birds-of-paradise genus Paradisaea
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Corvida Paradisaeidae birds-of-paradise genus
Seleucidis
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Paradisaeidae birds-of-paradise genus Parotia
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Paradisaeidae birds-of-paradise genus Pteridophora
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Paradisaeidae birds-of-paradise genus Epimachus