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More About Passerines - Other ...
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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.
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Taxonmony
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Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
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Source: Wikipedia Read more about Passerines - Other
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American Dipper
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American Dipper
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Eastern Wood-Pewee
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Eastern Wood-Pewee Song
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Great Kiskadee
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Great Kiskadee Song
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Tropical Kingbird
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Tropical Kingbird Song
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Couch's Kingbird
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Couch's Kingbird Song
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Couch's Kingbird
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Couch's Kingbird Call
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Eastern Kingbird
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Eastern Kingbird Song
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Golden-crowned Kinglet
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Golden-crowned Kinglet Song
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Golden-crowned Kinglet
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Golden-crowned Kinglet Call
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet
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Ruby-crowned Kinglet Song
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
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Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Song
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Veery
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Veery Song
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Veery
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Veery Call
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Northern Mockingbird
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Northern Mockingbird Song
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Northern Mockingbird
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Northern Mockingbird Call
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Long-billed Thrasher
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Long-billed Thrasher Song
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European Starling
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European Starling Song
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Cedar Waxwing
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Cedar Waxwing Song
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Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher
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The Longpoint schoolhouse
Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher Song
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Brown Thrasher
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The Longpoint schoolhouse
Brown Thrasher Song
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Cedar Waxwing
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The Longpoint schoolhouse
Cedar Waxwing Song
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Eastern Kingbird
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The Longpoint schoolhouse
Eastern Kingbird Call
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Golden-Crowned Kinglet
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The Longpoint schoolhouse
Golden-Crowned Kinglet Song
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Mockingbird
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The Longpoint schoolhouse
Mockingbird Call
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Starling
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The Longpoint schoolhouse
Starling Song
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Great Shortwing
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Birding in Sulawesi and Halmahera - Alan Wilkinson
Great Shortwing
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Redwing
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Rouge River Valley
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Lineated Foliage-gleaner
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Lineated Foliage-gleaner
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Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
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Wedge-billed Woodcreeper song
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Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
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Wedge-billed Woodcreeper call
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Cocoa Woodcreeper
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Cocoa Woodcreeper
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Spotted Woodcreeper
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Spotted Woodcreeper
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Streak-headed Woodcreeper
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Streak-headed Woodcreeper (Buff-throated Saltator in the background)
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Great Antshrike
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Great Antshrikes call to each other
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Great Antshrike
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Great Antshrike call
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Black-hooded Antshrike
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Two male Black-hooded Antshrikes compete for song supremacy
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