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A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. More than half of all species of bird are passerines. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines are one of the most spectacularly successful vertebrate orders: with around 5,400 species, they are roughly twice as diverse as the most successful of the mammal orders, the Rodentia.

The group gets its name from the Latin name for the House Sparrow, Passer domesticus.

Many passerines are songbirds and have complex muscles to control their syrinx; all of them gape in the nest as infants to beg for food.

The order is divided into two suborders, Tyranni, and Passeri (oscines). Oscines have the most control of their syrinx muscles and are true songbirds (though some of them, such as the crow, do not sound like it). Most passerines are smaller than typical members of other avian orders.

The evolutionary history of and relationships among the passerine families remained rather mysterious until around the end of the 20th century. Many passerine families were grouped together on the basis of morphological similarities which, it is now known, are the result of convergent evolution, not a close genetic relationship. For example, the "wrens" of the northern hemisphere, of Australia, and of New Zealand all look very similar and behave in similar ways, and yet belong to three far-flung branches of the passerine family tree: they are as unrelated as it is possible to be while yet remaining Passeriformes.

Much research remains to be done, but a series of biochemical studies are gradually revealing a clearer picture of passerine origins and evolution. It is now thought that the early passerines evolved in Gondwana at about the time that the southern supercontinent was breaking up. This led to the Tyranni and, a little later, to a great radiation of forms in Australia-New Guinea (the Passeri or songbirds). A major branch of the passerine tree, the Passerida (or sparrow-like forms), emerged either as the sister group to another (the Corvida, or crow-like birds), or more likely as a subgroup of the Corvida, and reached the northern hemisphere, where there was a further explosive radiation of new species. Since then, there has been extensive mixing, with northern forms returning to the south, southern forms moving north, and so on.
Taxonmony
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
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Metallic Starling
Streaming  RAM  Hear Sound
ABC Archives and Library Services
Metallic Starling
Red Wattlebird
Streaming  RAM  Hear Sound
ABC Archives and Library Services
Red Wattlebird
Eastern Pewee
0.150MB  AU  Hear Sound
Tony Phillips: Songs and calls of some New York State birds
Eastern Pewee
Eastern Pewee
0.030MB  AU  Hear Sound
Tony Phillips: Songs and calls of some New York State birds
Question
Eastern Pewee
0.020MB  AU  Hear Sound
Tony Phillips: Songs and calls of some New York State birds
Answer
Kingbird
0.020MB  AU  Hear Sound
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Kingbird
Mockingbird
0.120MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Mockingbird
Red Wattlebird
0.030MB  AU  Hear Sound
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Red Wattlebird
Veery
0.790MB  WAV  Hear Sound
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Veery Song
Omao
0.450MB  MP3  Hear Sound
Hawaii Forest & Trail
Omao song
Golden-crowned Kinglet
0.200MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Golden-crowned Kinglet's high pitched call
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
0.130MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Ruby-crowned Kinglets "talk"
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
0.150MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Spring Songs of Kinglet
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
0.050MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Two Kinglets engaged in "love talk"
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
0.400MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Breeding song
Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
0.110MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Blue Gray Gnatcatcher sounds
Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher
0.090MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Black-Tailed Gnatcatcher sounds
Northern Mockingbird
0.260MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Mockingbird's "whisper song"
Northern Mockingbird
0.090MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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A phrase from a Mockingbird's song
Sage Thrasher
0.130MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Sage Thrasher's blackbird-like call
Bendire's Thrasher
0.190MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Bendire's Thrasher song
Bendire's Thrasher
0.080MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Bendire's Thrasher song
Curved-billed Thrasher
0.090MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Curved-billed Thrasher call
Curved-billed Thrasher
0.040MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Curved-billed Thrasher call
Curved-billed Thrasher
0.120MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Curved-billed Thrasher song
Curved-billed Thrasher
0.280MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Male Thrasher sweet-talking a female
Crissal Thrasher
0.250MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Crissal Thrasher mimicing Killdeer, Red-tailed Hawk, and other birds
Crissal Thrasher
0.150MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Crissal Thrasher mimicing Killdeer, Red-tailed Hawk, and other birds
Crissal Thrasher
0.160MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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A Crissal Thrasher imitates the sound of a Mourning Dove's flight! He also does an almost-perfect Curve-billed Thrasher's call notes and Western Bluebirds' flight song.
European Starling
0.180MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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A pair of starlings
European Starling
0.130MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Starling mimicing other birds such as American Robin and Killdeer
European Starling
0.270MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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A single Starling mutters quietly to itself
Cedar Waxwing
0.040MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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High clear call notes of Cedar Waxwing
Phainopepla
0.200MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Spring song of Phainopepla
Greater Pewee
0.180MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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The Greater Pewee song
Western Wood-Pewee
0.080MB  WAV  Hear Sound
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Western Wood-Pewee calls
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