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A passerine is a bird o the order Passeriformes, which includes mair nor hauf o aw bird species. A notable featur o passerines is the arrangement o thair taes (three pyntin forrit an ane back) which facilitates perchin. Sometimes kent as perchin birds or, less accurately, as sangbirds, the passerines form ane o the maist diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders, wi ower 5,000 identified species.[1] It haes roughly twice as mony species as the lairgest o the mammal orders, the Rodentia. It contains mair nor 110 faimilies, the seicont maist o ony order o vertebrates (efter the Perciformes).
Passerines | |
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Striated Pardalote (Pardalotus striatus) | |
Sang o a Purple-crouned Fairywren (Malurus coronatus) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Aves |
Clade: | Neoaves |
Clade: | Terrestrornithes |
(unranked): | Dendrornithes |
Clade: | Australaves |
Clade: | Eufalconimorphae |
Clade: | Psittacopasserae |
Order: | Passeriformes Linnaeus, 1758 |
Suborders | |
an see text | |
Diversity | |
Roughly 100 faimilies, aroond 5,400 species |
The names "passerines" an "Passeriformes" are derived frae Passer domesticus, the scienteefic name o the eponymous species (the Hoose Sparrow) an ultimately frae the Laitin term passer for Passer sparrows an seemilar smaa birds.
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