Passeriformes or passerines, is a order which includes more than half of all bird species. A notable feature of passerines is the arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back) which facilitates perching. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines form one of the most diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders, with over 5,000 identified species. It has roughly twice as many species as the largest of the mammal orders, the Rodentia. It contains more than 110 families, the second-most of any order of tetrapods (after Squamata, the scaled reptiles).
The names "passerines" and "Passeriformes" are derived from Passer domesticus, the scientific name of the eponymous species (the house sparrow) and ultimately from the Latin term passer for Passer sparrows and similar small birds.
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- Aberrant Bush Warbler
- Abyssinian White-eye
- African Blue Flycatcher
- African Broadbill
- African Golden Oriole
- African Paradise Flycatcher
- Agile Tit-tyrant
- Aguiguan Reed Warbler
- Alagoas Foliage-gleaner
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- Aldabra Brush Warbler
- Alectrurus
- Alpine Accentor
- Amazonian Scrub Flycatcher
- Amazonian Umbrellabird
- Ambon White-eye
- American Dipper
- American Goldfinch
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- American Robin
- Amur Paradise Flycatcher
- Andaman Cuckooshrike
- Andean Negrito
- Annobón Paradise Flycatcher
- Annobón White-eye
- Apo Myna
- Apo Sunbird
- Appert's Tetraka
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- Archbold's Bowerbird
- Archbold's Newtonia
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- Ash-throated Gnateater
- Ashy Minivet
- Ashy Tailorbird
- Ashy-bellied White-eye
- Asian Stubtail
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- Austral Negrito
- Australasian Figbird
- Azure Jay
- Azure-crested Flycatcher
- Azure-naped Jay
- Babbling Starling
- Bachman's Warbler
- Baltimore Oriole
- Band-tailed Seedeater
- Banded Broadbill
- Banded Cotinga
- Bar-bellied Cuckooshrike
- Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike
- Bare-eyed Myna
- Bare-eyed White-eye
- Bare-necked Fruitcrow
- Bare-necked Umbrellabird
- Bare-throated Bellbird
- Barn Swallow
- Barred Antthrush
- Barred Cuckooshrike
- Bates's Paradise Flycatcher
- Bay-vented Cotinga
- Bearded Bellbird
- Bedford's Paradise Flycatcher
- Bernier's Vanga
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- Biak Black Flycatcher
- Biak Monarch
- Biak White-eye
- Bishop's ʻōʻō
- Bismarck White-eye
- Black Berrypecker
- Black Cicadabird
- Black Cuckooshrike
- Black Monarch
- Black Oriole
- Black Sicklebill
- Black Solitaire
- Black-and-crimson Oriole
- Black-and-gold Cotinga
- Black-and-gold Tanager
- Black-and-orange Flycatcher
- Black-and-red Broadbill
- Black-and-white Tanager
- Black-and-white Triller
- Black-and-yellow Broadbill
- Black-backed Puffback
- Black-bellied Cuckooshrike
- Black-bellied Gnateater
- Black-bibbed Cicadabird
- Black-bibbed Monarch
- Black-billed Magpie
- Black-billed Sicklebill
- Black-breasted Boatbill
- Black-capped Speirops
- Black-capped White-eye
- Black-cheeked Gnateater
- Black-chested Jay
- Black-chinned Monarch
- Black-chinned Yuhina
- Black-crested Antshrike
- Black-crowned Antpitta
- Black-crowned Babbler
- Black-crowned Tchagra
- Black-crowned White-eye
- Black-eared Oriole
- Black-faced Antthrush
- Black-faced Cotinga
- Black-Faced Cuckooshrike
- Black-faced Grosbeak
- Black-faced Monarch
- Black-faced Warbler
- Black-fronted Bushshrike
- Black-fronted White-eye
- Black-headed Antthrush
- Black-headed Berryeater
- Black-headed Cuckooshrike
- Black-headed Gonolek
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-headed Tailorbird
- Black-headed Tody-flycatcher
- Black-hooded Oriole
- Black-naped Monarch
- Black-naped Oriole
- Black-necked Red Cotinga
- Black-ringed White-eye
- Black-shouldered Cicadabird
- Black-tailed Monarch
- Black-throated Shrikebill
- Black-tipped Cotinga
- Black-tipped Monarch
- Black-winged Cuckooshrike
- Black-winged Flycatcher-shrike
- Black-winged Monarch
- Black-winged Oriole
- Blackish Cuckooshrike
- Blackish-blue Seedeater
- Blue Bird-of-paradise
- Blue Cotinga
- Blue Cuckooshrike
- Blue Jay
- Blue Paradise Flycatcher
- Blue Seedeater
- Blue Vanga
- Blue-and-gold Tanager
- Blue-headed Crested Flycatcher
- Blue-mantled Crested Flycatcher
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- Bocage's Akalat
- Bocage's Bushshrike
- Bokmakierie
- Bonin Grosbeak
- Bornean Green Magpie
- Bornean Stubtail
- Bougainville Bush Warbler
- Bougainville Monarch
- Boyer's Cuckooshrike
- Brahminy Starling
- Braun's Bushshrike
- Bridled White-eye
- Broad-billed Flycatcher
- Broad-billed Warbler
- Bronze Parotia
- Bronze-olive Pygmy Tyrant
- Brown Oriole
- Brown Sicklebill
- Brown-capped Tyrannulet
- Brown-crowned Tchagra
- Brown-flanked Bush Warbler
- Brown-throated Sunbird
- Brownish Twistwing
- Brubru
- Buff-bellied Monarch
- Buff-breasted Mountain Tanager
- Bugun Liocichla
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- Burmese Yuhina
- Buru Cuckooshrike
- Buru White-eye
- Bushy-crested Jay
- Cambodian Tailorbird
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- Campina Jay
- Canada Jay
- Canary White-eye
- Capuchinbird
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- Carrizal Seedeater
- Cassia Crossbill
- Cassin's Kingbird
- Cayenne Jay
- Celestial Monarch
- Cerulean Cuckooshrike
- Cerulean Paradise Flycatcher
- Cetti's Warbler
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- Chabert Vanga
- Chestnut-bellied Cotinga
- Chestnut-bellied Monarch
- Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager