Passeriformes Bird Taxonomy Back to Family-wise Image List Passeriformes is the largest order of birds comprising of more than 5000 species or more and includes more than half of all bird species. They are also known as passerine and includes perching birds. Family: Passeridae Common Sparrow (male) Common Sparrow (female) Common Sparrow (juvenile) Scally-breasted Munia White Wagtail Yellow Wagtail (breeding) White-browed Wagtail Paddyfield Pipit Baya Weaver (juvenile) Common Rosefinch (male) Indian Silverbill Family: Lanidae Long-tailed Shrike Family: Corvidae Large Cuckooshrike (female) Eurasian Golden Oriole (male) Eurasian Golden Oriole (female) Asian Paradise Flycatcher House Crow Black Drongo Large-billed crow Family: Zosteropidae Oriental White-eye Family: Muscicapidae Red-throated Flycatcher Grey-headed Canary Flyatcher Verditer Flycatcher Indian Robin (male) Indian Robin (female) Pied Bushchat (male) Pied Bushchat (female) Common Stonechat (male) Common Stonechat (female) Brown Rockchat Family: Sturnidae Brahminy Starling Asian Pied Starling Common Myna Jungle Myna (IC: Shirlene Paul) Family: Pycnonotidae Red-vented Bulbuli Family: Silvidae Yellow-eyed Babbler Jungle Babbler Large Grey Babbler Family: Nectarnidae Purple-rumped Sunbird (male) Purple Sunbird (male) Purple Sunbird (female) Purple Sunbird (male – eclipse) Family: Hirundinidae Wire-tailed Swallow Family: Paridae Great Tit Family: Alaudidae Rufous-tailed Lark Family: Cisticolidae Ashy Prinia Common Tailorbird Family: Acrocephalidae Blyth’s Reed Warbler