Local animals in this group:
- larks
- waxwings and silky flycatchers
- cardinal, grosbeaks, and relatives
- treecreepers
- crows and jays
- sparrows
- finches
- swallows
- blackbirds
- shrikes
- mockingbirds and relatives
- chickadees
- New World warblers
- sparrows and weavers
- western tanager
- scarlet tanager
- summer tanager
- ruby-crowned kinglet
- nuthatches
- starlings
- wrens
- robins, bluebirds, and thrushes
- tyrant flycatchers
- eastern warbling-vireo
- white-eyed vireo
- red-eyed vireo
- Philadelphia vireo
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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