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TAG Convenor: Carla Srb, Healesville Sanctuary
The Passerine TAG covers passerine birds excluding New Zealand native birds. Passerine birds are classified as such as they perch, for example finches, wrens, honeyeaters, thrushes. The TAG currently covers the following taxonomic groups:
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Photo courtesy Healesville Sanctuary |
| Pittidae - pittas
- Menuridae - lyrebird
- Maluridae - wrens
- Pardalotidae - thornbills, pardolotes
- Meliphagidae - honeyeaters
- Petroicidae - robins
- Pomatostostomidae - babblers
- Cinclosomatidae - quail-thrushes, whipbirds
- Sittidae - sitellas
- Pachycephalidae -shrike-thrushs, whistlers
- Dicruridae - drongo, flycathers, fantails
- Campephagidae - cuckoo-shrike, trillers
- Oriolidae - orioles, figbirds
- Artamidae - woodswallows, butcherbirds
- Paradisaeidae - riflebirds
- Corvidae - ravens, crows
- Corcoracidae - choughs, apostlebirds
- Ptilonorhynchidae - catbirds, bowerbirds
- Motacillidae - pipits
- Passeridae - finches/ weavers
- Fringillidae -canaries
- Nectariniidae - sunbirds
- Dicaeidae - mistletoebirds
- Hirundinidae - swallows, martins
- Pycnonotidae - bulbuls
- Muscicapidea - spinifexbirds
- Sylvidae - warblers
- Zosteropidae - silvereyes
- Sturnidae - starlings
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Information regarding Passerine Bird TAG managed programs, including program outlines, studbooks, annual report and recommendations, and captive management plans may be viewed in the Members' section of the website.
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