Passerine Movies


Passerine Movies

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American Dipper
Kodiak Island, Alaska

Photographer: Dave Menke
Source: US Fish and Wildlife
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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
Family:

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VIDEO CLIPS

Double Double-crested Cormorant
4.210MB MOV View Movie
Tropical Marine Ecology Page (R. Hays Cummins, Miami University)
A Double Crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus), while looking ungainly in the water, is an amazingly effective predator when swimming underwater.

Waxwing
1.460MB MPG View Movie
Herts Bird Club
Waxwing

Firecrest
0.180MB MOV View Movie
BirdsIreland.com
Firecrest

Goldcrest
0.370MB MOV View Movie
BirdsIreland.com
Goldcrest

Tropical Kingbird
0.440MB MPG View Movie
The Nature Conservancy
Tropical Kingbird

Veery
1.940MB AVI View Movie
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Whittlesey Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Veery Video

Yellow-billed Oxpecker
0.000MB MOV View Movie
Getty Images
yellow-billed oxpeckers preening on back of rhino / Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania, Africa
If you don't see the relevant video below, please follow this link and search for 454-52 in the search screen.

Tropical Mockingbird
0.160MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird hops from a rock to a fence.

Tropical Mockingbird
0.120MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is perched on a branch.

Tropical Mockingbird
0.730MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird hops along the ground, picks up some sticks and then takes flight.

Veery
0.420MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Close up view of bird standing on the ground.

Veery
0.180MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Close up view of bird standing on the ground.

Veery
0.370MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird from behind as it forages in the leaf litter.

Great Kiskadee
0.480MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is perched on a branch. Includes audio.

Great Kiskadee
0.320MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is preening while perched on a branch.

Great Kiskadee
0.340MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is sitting on a rock by the water.

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
0.360MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is hopping and flying from branch to branch.

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
0.440MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is hopping and flying from branch to branch.

Tropical Pewee
0.120MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is perched on a branch and then takes flight.

Tropical Pewee
0.260MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is perched on a branch.

Cedar Waxwing
1.230MB AVI View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull.

Golden-crowned Kinglet
0.730MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is feeding actively in a spruce tree.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet
0.780MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is moving from branch to branch.

Brown Thrasher
0.570MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is feeding in the leaf litter.

Northern Mockingbird
1.550MB AVI View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull.

European Starling
0.390MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is walking around on the ground.

White-cheeked Starling
0.430MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is feeding in the grass.

Eastern Kingbird
0.500MB RM View Movie
Mangoverde World Bird Guide
High quality video clip by William Hull. Bird is perched on a branch above some water.

Western Spinebill
0.820MB MOV View Movie
Michael Morcombe
Western Spinebill clip

Western Spinebill
0.470MB MOV View Movie
Michael Morcombe
Western Spinebill clip

Western Wattlebird
0.360MB MOV View Movie
Michael Morcombe
Western Wattlebird clip

North Island kokako
MOV View Movie
Arkive.org
Nice selection of North Island kokako video clips available in various formats

Bali starling
MOV View Movie
Arkive.org
Nice selection of Bali starling video clips available in various formats

Ruby Crowned Kinglet
0.020MB RM View Movie
princerupert.com
A friendly female Ruby Crowned Kinglet

Cotinga
0.640MB MPG View Movie
Birds in Suriname
Cotinga movie

Guianan cock-of-the-rock
1.050MB MPG View Movie
Birds in Suriname
Guianan cock-of-the-rock movie

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