Passeriformes: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Genus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Passeriformes
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Passerine
A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin passer 'sparrow' and formis '-shaped') which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines generally have an anisodactyl arrangement of their toes (three pointing forward and one back), which facilitates perching.
With more than 140 families and some 6,500 identified species, Passeriformes is the largest order of birds and one of the most diverse clades of terrestrial vertebrates, representing 60% of birds. Passerines are divided into three suborders: New Zealand wrens; Suboscines, primarily found in North and South America; and songbirds. Passerines originated in the Southern Hemisphere around 60 million years ago.
Most passerines are insectivorous or omnivorous, and eat both insects and fruit or seeds.
...Passeriformes in languages:
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- عصفوريات
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- جواثم
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- Вераб'інападобныя
- Bokmål
- spurvefugler
- Bulgarian
- Врабчоподобни
- Catalan
- Passeriformes
- Chinese
- 雀形目
- Croatian
- Vrapčarke
- Czech
- pěvci
- Danish
- spurvefugle
- Dutch
- Zangvogels
- English
- Perching Birds
- English
- Passerines
- English
- Songbirds
- Estonian
- Värvulised
- Finnish
- varpuslinnut
- French
- Passereaux
- Galician
- Paseriformes
- German
- Sperlingsvögel
- German
- Singvögel
- Hebrew
- ציפורי שיר
- Hungarian
- Verébalakúak
- Indonesian
- Burung pengicau
- Italian
- Passeriformi
- Japanese
- スズメ目
- Korean
- 참새목
- Latvian
- Zvirbuļveidīgie
- Lithuanian
- Žvirbliniai paukščiai
- Modern Greek
- Στρουθιόμορφα
- Polish
- Wróblowe
- Portuguese
- Passarinhos
- Russian
- Воробьинообразные
- Slovak
- Vrabcotvaré
- Slovene
- Pevci
- Swedish
- tättingar
- Thai
- นกเกาะคอน
- Turkish
- Ötücü Kuşlar
- Ukrainian
- Горобцеподібні
- Vietnamese
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Accipitriformes
- Aepyornithiformes
- Anseriformes
- Apterygiformes
- Bucerotiformes
- Caprimulgiformes
- Cariamiformes
- Casuariiformes
- Cathartiformes
- Charadriiformes
- Ciconiiformes
- Coliiformes
- Columbiformes
- Confuciusornithiformes
- Coraciiformes
- Cuculiformes
- Dinornithiformes
- Eurypygiformes
- Falconiformes
- Galbuliformes
- Galliformes
- Gaviiformes
- Gruiformes
- Leptosomiformes
- Mesitornithiformes
- Musophagiformes
- Opisthocomiformes
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- Passeriformes
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- Pterocliformes
- Rheiformes
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- Suliformes
- Tinamiformes
- Trogoniformes
Child Taxa
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- Timaliidae
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- Turdidae
- Tyrannidae
- Urocynchramidae
- Vangidae
- Viduidae
- Vireonidae
- Zeledoniidae
- Zosteropidae
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