Songbird

Passeri
Male Superb Lyrebird
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Suborder:	Passeri
Families
Many, see text

Songbirds are the main group of birds in the order Passeriformes. They are the suborder Passeri, sometimes called 'oscines'.

There are about 4000 species of songbird. Their syrinx (vocal organ) is able to produce varied and beautiful singing. They are a very successful group of birds, in fact they are the dominant birds on Earth today.

Families

Corvida

• Menuridae: lyrebirds
• Atrichornithidae: scrub birds
• Climacteridae: Australian treecreepers
• Maluridae: fairy-wrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens
• Meliphagidae: honeyeaters and chats
• Pardalotidae: pardalotes, scrubwrens, thornbills, and gerygones
• Petroicidae: Australian robins
• Orthonychidae: logrunners
• Pomatostomidae: Australasian babblers
• Cinclosomatidae: whipbirds and allies
• Neosittidae: sittellas
• Pachycephalidae: whistlers, shrike-thrushes, pitohuis and allies
• Dicruridae: monarch flycatchers and allies
• Campephagidae: cuckoo shrikes and trillers
• Oriolidae: orioles and Figbird
• Artamidae: woodswallows, butcherbirds, currawongs and Australian Magpie
• Paradisaeidae: birds of paradise
• Corvidae: crows, rooks, ravens, magpies, and jays
• Corcoracidae: White-winged Chough and Apostlebird
• Irenidae: fairy-bluebirds
• Laniidae: shrikes
• Vireonidae: vireos
• Ptilonorhynchidae: bowerbirds
• Turnagridae: Piopio

Passerida

• Alaudidae: larks
• Chloropseidae: leafbirds
• Aegithinidae: ioras
• Picathartidae: rockfowl
• Eupetidae: rail-babbler
• Bombycillidae: waxwings and allies
• Ptilogonatidae: silky flycatchers
• Cinclidae: dippers
• Motacillidae: wagtails and pipits
• Prunellidae: accentor
• Melanocharitidae: berrypeckers and longbills
• Paramythiidae: tit berrypecker and crested berrypeckers
• Passeridae: true sparrows
• Estrildidae: estrildid finches (waxbills, munias, etc.)
• Parulidae: New World warblers
• Thraupidae: tanagers and allies
• Peucedramidae: Olive Warbler
• Fringillidae: true finches
• Cardinalidae: cardinals
• Drepanididae: Hawaiian honeycreepers
• Emberizidae: buntings and American sparrows
• Nectariniidae: sunbirds
• Dicaeidae: flowerpeckers
• Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers
• Sittidae: nuthatches
• Certhiidae: treecreepers
• Troglodytidae: wrens
• Polioptilidae: gnatcatchers
• Paridae: tits, chickadees and titmice
• Aegithalidae: long-tailed tits
• Hirundinidae: swallows and martins
• Regulidae: kinglets
• Pycnonotidae: bulbuls
• Phylloscopidae: leaf-warblers and allies. Recently split from Sylviidae.
• Sylviidae: Old World warblers
• Hypocoliidae: Hypocolius
• Cisticolidae: cisticolas and allies
• Icteridae: American blackbirds, New World orioles, grackles and cowbirds.
• Zosteropidae: White-eyes
• Timaliidae: babblers
• Muscicapidae: Old World flycatchers and chats
• Turdidae: thrushes and allies
• Sturnidae: starlings

Other websites

• Oscines Tree of Life web project article July 31, 2006
• Pictures of Songbirds