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Perching Birds are medium to small land birds with feet
well suited for perching, 3 toes in front and one long one behind.

Most are fine singers.
Most are highly migratory.


Perching birds range in size from kinglets at about 0.18 oz to ravens
at about 3 lb.

Oscines, commonly referred to as songbirds, comprise the
suborder Passeres, the largest suborder of the passerines.
Finches, wrens, swallows, nightingales, crows, warblers,
vireos, tanagers, and flycatchers are all passerines.


Passerine is the common name for these perching birds belonging
to the largest avian order, which includes more than 5700
diverse species and over half of all living birds.

Passerines make up the order Passeriformes.

Passerines include:

Blackbirds
Bluebirds
Blue Jays
Bobolinks
Bulbuls
Buntings
Cardinals
Chickadees
Cowbirds
Creepers
Crossbills
Crows
Dippers
Finches
Flycatchers
Gnatcatchers
Goldfinch
Grackles
Grosbeaks
Jays
Juncos
Kinglets
Larks
Magpies
Meadowlarks
Mockingbirds
Nuthatches
Old World Sparrows
Orioles
Phainopeplas
Phoebes
Pipits
Purple Martin
Ravens
Robins
Shrikes
Sparrows
Starlings
Swallows
Tanagers
Thrashers
Thrushes
Titmice
Towhee
Vireos
Wagtails
Warblers
Waxwings
Wrens
Wrentits

A Complete List of North American Birds

All about North American Birds

Birds make up the class Aves


Avian Classification


Order Examples

Anseriformes:  Waterfowl (ducks, geese, swans)
Apodiformes:  Swifts, hummingbirds
Caprimulgiformes:  Goatsuckers, nightjars
Charadriiformes:   Shorebirds, gulls, alcids, jacanas, skuas,
terns, skimmers, oystercatchers, avocets
Ciconiiformes:   Herons, storks, ibis, spoonbills, bitterns
Coliiformes:  Colies
Columbiformes:   Pigeons, doves, sandgrouse
Coraciiformes:   Kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, hoopoes,
hornbills, motmots, todies
Cuculiformes:   Cuckoos, anis, roadrunners, hoatzins
Falconiformes:   Vultures, hawks, eagles, falcons,
osprey, secretary birds
Galliformes:   Grouse, pheasants, turkeys, quails, ptarmigans,
megapods,
guinea fowl, guans
Gaviiformes:   Loons
Gruiformes:   Cranes, rails, bustards, limpkins, coots, gallinules,
buttonquails, sunbitterns, kagus, trumpeters
Passeriformes:   Perching birds (over 70 families), including
crows, thrushes, sparrows, swallows, wrens, warblers, flycatchers,
larks, nuthatches, vireos, shrikes, blackbirds
Pelecaniformes:   Pelicans, boobies, cormorants, gannets,
darters, frigatebirds
Phoenicopteriformes:   Flamingos
Piciformes:   Woodpeckers, honey guides, toucans, jacamars,
puffbirds, barbets
Podicipediformes:   Grebes
Procellariiformes:   Albatrosses, shearwaters, petrels
Psittaciformes:   Parrots
Sphenisciformes:   Penguins
Strigiformes:   Owls
Struthioniformes:   Ostriches, rheas, kiwis, cassowaries, emus
Tinamiformes:   Tinamous
Trogoniformes:   Trogons