Birds Guide

Corvida
Superb Lyrebird as painted by John Gould of a British Museum specimen ( in real life, the Lyrebird's tail is different )
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia   Phylum: Chordata   Class: Aves   Order: Passeriformes   Suborder: Passeri   Parvorder: Corvida
Families
Many, see text

Corvida is under the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, one of two parvorders contained within the suborder Passeri. 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.

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
  Vireonidae: vireos
  Ptilonorhynchidae: bowerbirds
  Turnagridae: Piopio

See also

• list of birds