(clockwise from top right…)
‘palestine sunbird’
(cinnyris osea)
‘blue jay’
(cyanocitta cristata)
‘house sparrow’
(passer domesticus)
‘great tit’
(parus major)
‘hooded crow’
(corvus cornix)
‘southern masked weaver’
(ploceus velatus)
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*aka order ‘passeriformes’*
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*TYPES* –>
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(a passerine is any bird of the order passeriformes)
(which includes more than half of all ‘bird species’)
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(a notable feature of ‘passerines’ compared to other orders of ‘aves’ is the arrangement of their toes, 3 pointing forward + 1 back, which facilitates ‘perching’)
(sometimes known as ‘perching birds’ (or – less accurately – as ‘songbirds’), the ‘passerines’ form one of the most diverse ‘terrestrial vertebrate orders’, with over 5,000 identified species)
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[it has roughly twice as many species as the largest of the mammal orders (the ‘rodentia’)]
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(it contains more than 110 families, the 2nd-most of any order of ‘tetra-pods’ (after ‘squamata’ / the ‘scaled reptiles’))
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(‘the ‘passerines’ contain several groups of ‘brood parasites’ such as…)
the viduas,
cuckoo-finches,
and the cowbirds.
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(the names [‘passerine’ / ‘passeriformes’] are derived from passer domesticus, the scientific name of the eponymous species (the ‘house sparrow’) + ultimately from the latin term passer for passer ‘sparrows’ + similar ‘small birds’)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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