Passerida Photo Albums II
The second of two album pages provide links to galleries that display images of Passerida that belong to order Passeriformes, see Taxonomy note below. A gallery in each photo album features portraits of individual species that may include male, female, juvenile or immature birds, photographed in their natural habitat. Also, for some species, supplementary galleries show behaviours such as hunting, nesting, feeding, and mating.
Basal Passeroidea
Core Passeroidea
Passerida Taxonomy
To help the presentation of my Passeriformes photo album collections, I adopt the Passerida taxonomy in J Boyd’s Taxonomy in Flux Checklist. This taxonomy approach involves moving some families to the basal/core groups and others to new and extant superfamilies.
The second Passerida photo album contains Basal and Core Passeroidea, the core splits into Estrildid and Passerid clades. The figure shows a simplified taxonomy family tree relevant to Passerida photo albums. As shown in the family tree Corvida is the sister group of Passerida.
Note that Sibley and Ahlquist Taxonomy divides Passerida into three superfamilies: Sylvioidea, Muscicapoidea, and Passeroidea.