Perching bird

Perching birds
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Passeriformes
Families
Acanthisittidae[?]  Aegithalidae  Alaudidae  Bombycillidae  Callaeidae[?]  Cardinalidae  Certhidae  Cinclidae  Cisticolidae  Climacteridae[?]  Conopophagidae[?]  Corvidae  Eurylaimidae[?]  Formicariidae[?]  Fringillidae  Furnariidae[?]  Hirundinidae  Hypocoliidae  Irenidae[?]  Laniidae  Maluridae  Melanocharitidae[?]  Meliphagidae  Menuridae  Monarchidae[?]  Muscicapidae  Nectariniidae[?]  Orthonychidae[?]  Pachycephalidae[?]  Paramythiidae[?]  Pardalotidae  Paridae  Passeridae  Petroicidae  Peucedramidae[?]  Philepittidae[?]  Picathartidae[?]  Pittidae  Pomatostomidae[?]  Prunellidae  Ptilonorhynchidae[?]  Pycnonotidae  Regulidae  Rhinocryptidae[?]  Rhipiduridae[?]  Sittidae  Sturnidae  Sylviidae  Thamnophilidae[?]  Timaliidae[?]  Tyrannidae[?]  Vireonidae  Zosteropidae[?] (Zosterops) Menurae  Atrichornithidae[?] Tyranni  Cotingidae[?]  Dendrocolapteridae[?]  Phytotomidae[?]  Pipridae[?]  Xenicidae[?] Oscines  Artamidae[?]  Callaeidae[?]  Campephagidae[?]  Chamaeidae[?]  Coerebidae[?]  Cracticidae[?]  Dicaeidae[?]  Dicruridae[?]  Drepanididae[?]  Dulidae[?]  Emberizidae  Estrildidae[?]  Grallinidae[?]  Icteridae  Mimidae  Motacillidae  Oriolidae  Paradisaeidae  Parulidae  Ploceidae[?]  Prunellidae  Ptilogonatidae[?]  Remizidae  Rhabdornithidae  Thraupidae  Trenidae[?]  Troglodytidae  Turdidae  Vangidae

Perching birds (order Passeriformes) are the largest order of birds (5,414 species). Many of them are songbirds and have many muscles to control their syrinx; all of them gape in the nest as infants to beg for food.

The order is divided into four suborders, Eurylami, Menurae, Tyranni, and Oscines, one of the first three of which is also called Clamatores. 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).

Perching birds are also known as passerines or song birds.

Most passerines are smaller than typical members of other avian orders.

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

See also list of birds

Reference

ITIS 178265 (http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=178265)
as of 2002-07-25