Guide To Passerine Birds And Their Traits
What Is a Passerine? A passerine is a perching bird in the formal scientific order Passeriformes. These are the most familiar, typical birds and the term can be applied to more than half the world’s unique bird species, including all the classic songbirds, sparrows, and finches. Pronunciation PASS-err-eyen or PASS-err-eeen (rhymes with “pass her mine” and “gas burr wine” or “pass her thing” and “mass fur bling”) What Birds Are Passerines The Passeriformes is the largest order of bird classification and includes more than half the world’s different bird species, with more than 5,000 unique species classified as passerines....