passeriformes
Noun
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Largest order of birds comprising about half the known species;
Rooks;
Finches;
Sparrows;
Tits;
Warblers;
Robins;
Wrens;
Swallows;
Etc.;
The four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres (synset 101526549)is a type of: animal order - the order of animalsmember holonym:- passeriform bird, passerine - perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless
- oscines, passeres, suborder oscines, suborder passeres - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds
- menurae, suborder menurae - lyrebirds and scrubbirds
- eurylaimi, suborder eurylaimi - broadbills
- suborder tyranni, tyranni - New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers
- clamatores, suborder clamatores - used in some classification systems; a suborder or superfamily nearly coextensive with suborder Tyranni; Passeriformes having relatively simple vocal organs and little power of song; clamatorial birds
- family troglodytidae, troglodytidae - wrens
belongs to: aves, class aves - (ornithology) the class of birdssame as: order passeriformes
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