Corvida
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Corvida is under the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, one of two "parvorders" contained within the suborder Passeri (Standard taxonomic practice would place them at the rank of infraorder). More recent research suggests that it is not a distinct clade but an evolutionary grade instead. As such the usage of this parvorder is likely to be subject to further revision.
[edit] Families
- Menuridae: lyrebirds
- Atrichornithidae: scrub birds
- Climacteridae: Australian treecreepers
- Maluridae: fairy-wrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens
- Meliphagidae: honeyeaters and chats
- Pardalotidae: pardalotes, scrubwrens, thornbills, and gerygones
- Petroicidae: Australian robins
- Orthonychidae: logrunners
- Pomatostomidae: Australasian babblers
- Cinclosomatidae: whipbirds and allies
- Neosittidae: sittellas
- Pachycephalidae: whistlers, shrike-thrushes, pitohuis and allies
- Dicruridae: monarch flycatchers and allies
- Campephagidae: cuckoo shrikes and trillers
- Oriolidae: orioles and Figbird
- Icteridae: American blackbirds and orioles, grackles and cowbirds
- Artamidae: wood swallows, butcherbirds, currawongs and Australian Magpie
- Paradisaeidae: birds of paradise
- Corvidae: crows, ravens, and jays
- Corcoracidae: White-winged Chough and Apostlebird
- Irenidae: fairy-bluebirds
- Laniidae: shrikes
- Prionopidae: formerly considered shrikes
- Malaconotidae: formerly considered shrikes
- Campephagidae: formerly considered shrikes
- Vireonidae: vireos
- Vangidae: Vangas
- Ptilonorhynchidae: bowerbirds
- Turnagridae: Piopio
- Callaeidae: Kokako, Tieke and Huia
[edit] See also
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