Pedigree: Suborder Passeri (Songbirds)

The PEDIGREE of

Suborder Passeri (Songbirds)

aka oscines; ('Children' are listed in order of cladistic closeness to Corvoidea; all families outside Passerida may clade together as Parvorder Corvida)

Note: Clading within the songbirds is complicated, changing, confusing and controversial. Apologies for any errors that have crept into the depiction here.

"Child(ren)": Superfamily Corvoidea ; Infraorder Passerida ; rockfowl & rock-jumpers ; Melanocharitidae (berrypeckers : longbills) ; Callaeidae (N.Z. wattlebirds) ; Cnemophilidae (satinbirds) ; Notiomystidae (stitchbird) ; Orthonychidae (logrunners) ; Pomatostomidae (Australasian babblers) ; Meliphagoidea (honeyeaters : pardalotes : grasswrens : bristlebirds : thornbills etc.) ; Ptilonorhynchidae (bowerbirds) & Climacteridae (Aus. treecreepers) ; Menuroidea (lyrebirds & scrub-birds)

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														/	-- Clade Ornithothoraces +	====> [ 104]
													/	-- Clade Euornithes (Advanced Flying Birds)
												/	-- Clade Ornithuromorpha
											/	-- Clade Ornithurae
										/	-- Clade Carinatae
									/	-- Subclass Neornithes
								/	-- Infraclass Neognathae
							/	-- Legion Neoaves
						/	-- Sublegion Coronaves
					/	-- Supercohort Passerae-Charadriae (Land Birds & Shore Birds)
				/	-- Cohort Passerae (Land Birds)
			/	-- Clade Eufalconimorphae
		/	-- Clade Psittacopasserae
	/	-- Superorder Passerimorphae (Perching birds)
/	-- Order Passeriformes (Perching birds)
/
- Suborder Passeri (Songbirds)

``2-Great Grandchildren:'' Common Raven ; Family Icteridae (New World Blackbirds etc.) ; Genus Turdus (True Thrushes) ; Subfamily Hirundininae (Swallows & Martins)

``4-Great Grandchild:'' Barn Swallow