Local animals in this group:
- New World warblers
- blackbirds
- cardinal, grosbeaks, and relatives
- chickadees
- crows and jays
- finches
- larks
- mockingbirds and relatives
- nuthatches
- robins, bluebirds, and thrushes
- shrikes
- sparrows
- sparrows and weavers
- starlings
- swallows
- tanagers and relatives
- treecreepers
- tyrant flycatchers
- waxwings and silky flycatchers
- wrens
See also
Find perching birds information at Animal Diversity Web
Perching birds
Passeriformes
More than half of the worlds bird species belong to this order, the perching birds. This order of over 5000 species includes many familiar backyard songbirds such as crows, cardinals, chickadees, and sparrows.
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