Family |
Modern placement |
Menuridae: lyrebirds |
Basalmost Passeri, close to Atrichornithidae |
Atrichornithidae: scrub-birds |
Basalmost Passeri, close to Menuridae |
Climacteridae: Australian treecreepers |
Basal Passeri, close to Ptilonorhynchidae |
Ptilonorhynchidae: bowerbirds |
Basal Passeri, close to Climacteridae |
Maluridae: fairy-wrens, emu-wrens and grasswrens |
Meliphagoidea. Nowadays several families. |
Meliphagidae: honeyeaters and allies |
Meliphagoidea |
Pardalotidae: pardalotes, scrubwrens, thornbills, and gerygones |
Meliphagoidea. Nowadays several families; Pardalotidae proper might belong in Meliphagidae |
Petroicidae: Australasian robins |
Passeri incertae sedis, close to Picathartidae |
Orthonychidae: logrunners |
Passeri incertae sedis, close to Pomatostomidae |
Pomatostomidae: Australasian babblers |
Passeri incertae sedis, close to Orthonychidae |
Cinclosomatidae: whipbirds and allies |
Corvoidea incertae sedis, relationships with Pachycephalidae unresolved |
Neosittidae: sittellas |
Corvoidea |
Pachycephalidae: whistlers, shrike-thrushes, pitohuis and allies |
Corvoidea incertae sedis, highly paraphyletic and relationships with Cinclosomatidae unresolved |
Dicruridae: monarch flycatchers and allies |
Corvoidea. Possibly paraphyletic |
Oriolidae: orioles and figbirds |
Corvoidea |
Icteridae: American blackbirds/orioles, grackles and cowbirds |
Passerida: Passeroidea (the most "modern" main lineage of songbirds) |
Artamidae: woodswallows, butcherbirds, currawongs and Australian magpie |
Corvoidea |
Paradisaeidae: birds of paradise |
Corvoidea |
Cnemophilidae: satinbirds (included in Paradisaeidae) |
Passeri incertae sedis, possibly close to Callaeidae |
Corvidae: crows, ravens, jays, etc. |
Corvoidea |
Corcoracidae: white-winged chough and apostlebird |
Corvoidea |
Irenidae: fairy-bluebirds |
Passeri incertae sedis; close to Passeroidea or Regulidae (kinglets) |
Laniidae: shrikes |
Corvoidea |
Prionopidae: helmetshrikes (initially included in Laniidae) |
Corvoidea |
Malaconotidae: bush-shrikes and allies (initially included in Laniidae) |
Corvoidea |
Vireonidae: vireos |
Corvoidea |
Vangidae: vangas |
Corvoidea |
Turnagridae: piopios |
Corvoidea (included in Oriolidae) |
Callaeidae: New Zealand wattlebirds |
Passeri incertae sedis, possibly close to Cnemophilidae |