songbirds
**updated Jan. 2024**
This gallery showcases order Passeriformes, a/k/a passerines, perching birds, or songbirds. This diverse order includes:
flycatchers, vireos & shrikes, jays & crows, tits, swallows, kinglets & waxwings, nuthatches, gnatcatchers & wrens,
mimics, thrushes, old world flycatchers, finches, sparrows, blackbirds, wood-warblers, and cardinals.
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tyrant flycatchers (family Tyrannidae)
vireos & shrikes (families Vireonidae & Laniidae)
jays & crows (family Corvidae)
tits (family Paridae)
swallows (family Hirundinidae)
kinglets & waxwings (families Regulidae & Bombycillidae)
nuthatches (family Sittidae)
gnatcatchers & wrens (families Polioptilidae & Trogolydytidae)
mimics (family Mimidae)
thrushes (family Turdidae)
old world flycatchers (family Muscicapidae)
old world sparrows, wagtails & pipits, finches, buntings
(families Passeridae, Motacillidae, Fringillidae, Calcariidae)
new world sparrows (family Passerellidae)
blackbirds (family Icteridae)
wood-warblers (family Parulidae)
cardinals & relatives (family Cardinalidae)