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Passerine Bird TAG

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:

 

  • Helmeted Honeyeater

    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

Links to Passerine Bird websites
Birds Australia

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.
 


Invertebrate TAG Primate TAG
Aquatic TAG Miscellaneous Exotic Mammal TAG
Reptile and Amphibian TAG Carnivore TAG
New Zealand Fauna TAG Marine Mammal TAG
Non-Passerine TAG Perissodactyl and Proboscid TAG
Passerine TAG Artiodactyl TAG
Monotreme and Marsupial TAG Australian Bat and Rodent TAG

     

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