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Order: Passeriformes (part 6)
142 families, 6595 species (53 extinct)
Passeriformes Family Groups on this page:
- Reguloid Oscines, 1 family, 6 species
- Certhioid Oscines, 5 families, 148 species
- Bombycilloid Oscines, 7 families (1 extinct), 16 species (5 extinct)
- Muscicapoid Oscines, 6 families, 686 species (9 extinct)
Family #202
Kinglets (Regulidae)
- Species: 6
- Distribution: Nearctic, Palearctic
- IOC family #211 (Goldcrests, Kinglets), HBW family #206 (Kinglets and Firecrests), H&M family #221
- Passeriformes Family Group: Reguloid Oscines
- wf250 status: 91% members ticked
- OH: 4 seen and photographed, first seen in Israel 1983
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Corthylio calendula | .. |
| Golden-crowned Kinglet | Regulus satrapa | .. |
| Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | .. |
| Flamecrest | Regulus goodfellowi | |
| Madeira Firecrest | Regulus madeirensis | |
| Common Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | .. |
1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet, USA; 2 Goldcrest, Israel; 3 Firecrest, Italy; 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet, Mexico
Family #203
Wallcreeper (Tichodromidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Palearctic endemic
- IOC family #217, HBW family #198 (included in Nuthatches), H&M family #227 (Nuthatches, Salpornises and Wallcreeper)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf250 status: 70% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen and photographed, first seen in Israel 1982
| Wallcreeper | Tichodroma muraria | .. |
Wallcreeper, Israel 2016
Family #204
Nuthatches (Sittidae)
- Species: 29
- Distribution: Indomalaya, Nearctic, Palearctic
- IOC family #216, HBW family #198 (with Wallcreeper & Salpornises), H&M family #227 (Nuthatches, Salpornises and Wallcreeper)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf250 status: 97% members ticked
- OH: 14 seen, 13 photographed, first seen in Israel 1982
| White-cheeked Nuthatch | Sitta leucopsis | |
| Przevalski’s Nuthatch | Sitta przewalskii | |
| Giant Nuthatch | Sitta magna | .. |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | Sitta carolinensis | .. |
| Beautiful Nuthatch | Sitta formosa | .. |
| Blue Nuthatch | Sitta azurea | |
| Velvet-fronted Nuthatch | Sitta frontalis | .. |
| Yellow-billed Nuthatch | Sitta solangiae | |
| Sulphur-billed Nuthatch | Sitta oenochlamys | |
| Pygmy Nuthatch | Sitta pygmaea | .. |
| Brown-headed Nuthatch | Sitta pusilla | . |
| Bahama Nuthatch | Sitta insularis | |
| Yunnan Nuthatch | Sitta yunnanensis | |
| Algerian Nuthatch | Sitta ledanti | |
| Krüper’s Nuthatch | Sitta krueperi | |
| Red-breasted Nuthatch | Sitta canadensis | .. |
| Corsican Nuthatch | Sitta whiteheadi | .. |
| Snowy-browed Nuthatch | Sitta villosa | |
| Western Rock Nuthatch | Sitta neumayer | .. |
| Eastern Rock Nuthatch | Sitta tephronota | |
| Siberian Nuthatch | Sitta arctica | |
| White-browed Nuthatch | Sitta victoriae | |
| White-tailed Nuthatch | Sitta himalayensis | .. |
| Indian Nuthatch | Sitta castanea | |
| Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch | Sitta cinnamoventris | .. |
| Burmese Nuthatch | Sitta neglecta | .. |
| Eurasian Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | .. |
| Chestnut-vented Nuthatch | Sitta nagaensis | .. |
| Kashmir Nuthatch | Sitta cashmirensis |
1 Pygmy Nuthatch, USA; 2 Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch, India; 3 Chestnut-vented Nuthatch, Thailand; 4 Eurasian Nuthatch, Netherlands; 5 Burmese Nuthatch, Thailand; 6 Beautiful Nuthatch, India; 7 Giant Nuthatch, Thailand; 8 White-tailed Nuthatch, India; 9 Velvet-fronted Nuthatch, Borneo, Malaysia; 10 White-breasted Nuthatch, USA; 11 Corsican Nuthatch, France; 12 Red-breasted Nuthatch, USA; 13 Rock Nuthatch, Israel
Family #205
Treecreepers (Certhiidae)
- Species: 11
- Distribution: Indomalaya, Nearctic, Palearctic
- IOC family #218, HBW family #197 exclude Salpornises, H&M family #226 (Northern Hemisphere Treecreepers)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf250 status: 92% members ticked
- OH: 5 seen, 4 photographed, first seen in Poland 2008
| Eurasian Treecreeper | Certhia familiaris | .. |
| Hodgson’s Treecreeper | Certhia hodgsoni | |
| Sichuan Treecreeper | Certhia tianquanensis | |
| Brown Creeper | Certhia americana | . |
| Short-toed Treecreeper | Certhia brachydactyla | .. |
| Bar-tailed Treecreeper | Certhia himalayana | |
| Rusty-flanked Treecreeper | Certhia nipalensis | |
| Sikkim Treecreeper | Certhia discolor | .. |
| Hume’s Treecreeper | Certhia manipurensis | .. |
| African Spotted Creeper | Salpornis salvadori | |
| Indian Spotted Creeper | Salpornis spilonota |
1 Hume’s Treecreeper, Thailand; 2 Sikkim Treecreeper, India; 3 Eurasian Treecreeper, Ireland; 4 Short-toed Treecrerper, Spain
Family #206
Gnatcatchers (Polioptilidae)
- Species: 21
- Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropic
- IOC family #215, HBW family #199, H&M family #229
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf250 status: 85% members ticked
- OH: 10 seen, 6 photographed, first seen in Peru 2009
| Collared Gnatwren | Microbates collaris | |
| Tawny-faced Gnatwren | Microbates cinereiventris | . |
| Long-billed Gnatwren | Ramphocaenus melanurus | . |
| Chattering Gnatwren | Ramphocaenus sticturus | |
| Guianan Gnatcatcher | Polioptila guianensis | |
| Slate-throated Gnatcatcher | Polioptila schistaceigula | . |
| Iquitos Gnatcatcher | Polioptila clementsi | |
| Rio Negro Gnatcatcher | Polioptila facilis | |
| Inambari Gnatcatcher | Polioptila attenboroughi | |
| Klages’s Gnatcatcher | Polioptila paraensis | |
| Masked Gnatcatcher | Polioptila dumicola | .. |
| Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher | Polioptila lactea | |
| Cuban Gnatcatcher | Polioptila lembeyei | .. |
| Tropical Gnatcatcher | Polioptila plumbea | .. |
| Yucatan Gnatcatcher | Polioptila albiventris | |
| White-browed Gnatcatcher | Polioptila bilineata | |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Polioptila caerulea | .. |
| Black-tailed Gnatcatcher | Polioptila melanura | .. |
| California Gnatcatcher | Polioptila californica | .. |
| Black-capped Gnatcatcher | Polioptila nigriceps | . |
| White-lored Gnatcatcher | Polioptila albiloris |
1 Cuban Gnatcatcher, Cuba; 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Mexico; 3 California Gnatcatcher, USA; 4 Masked Gnatcatcher, Argentina; 5 Black-tailed Gnatcatcher, USA; 6 Tropical Gnatcatcher, Peru
Family #207
Wrens (Troglodytidae)
- Species: 86
- Distribution: Indomalaya, Nearctic, Neotropic, Palearctic
- IOC family #214, HBW family #200, H&M family #228
- Passeriformes Family Group: Certhioid Oscines
- wf250 status: 97% members ticked
- OH: 36 seen, 18 photographed, first seen in Israel 1983
| Rock Wren | Salpinctes obsoletus | .. |
| Nightingale Wren | Microcerculus philomela | . |
| Scaly-breasted Wren | Microcerculus marginatus | |
| Flutist Wren | Microcerculus ustulatus | |
| Wing-banded Wren | Microcerculus bambla | |
| Gray-mantled Wren | Odontorchilus branickii | |
| Tooth-billed Wren | Odontorchilus cinereus | |
| Canyon Wren | Catherpes mexicanus | .. |
| Sumichrast’s Wren | Hylorchilus sumichrasti | |
| Nava’s Wren | Hylorchilus navai | |
| Zapata Wren | Ferminia cerverai | . |
| House Wren | Troglodytes aedon | .. |
| Cobb’s Wren | Troglodytes cobbi | |
| Socorro Wren | Troglodytes sissonii | |
| Clarion Wren | Troglodytes tanneri | |
| Rufous-browed Wren | Troglodytes rufociliatus | |
| Ochraceous Wren | Troglodytes ochraceus | . |
| Mountain Wren | Troglodytes solstitialis | . |
| Santa Marta Wren | Troglodytes monticola | |
| Tepui Wren | Troglodytes rufulus | |
| Eurasian Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | .. |
| Pacific Wren | Troglodytes pacificus | . |
| Winter Wren | Troglodytes hiemalis | |
| Timberline Wren | Thryorchilus browni | |
| Sedge Wren | Cistothorus stellaris | .. |
| Grass Wren | Cistothorus platensis | .. |
| Merida Wren | Cistothorus meridae | |
| Apolinar’s Wren | Cistothorus apolinari | |
| Marsh Wren | Cistothorus palustris | .. |
| Carolina Wren | Thryothorus ludovicianus | . |
| Bewick’s Wren | Thryomanes bewickii | .. |
| White-headed Wren | Campylorhynchus albobrunneus | |
| Band-backed Wren | Campylorhynchus zonatus | .. |
| Gray-barred Wren | Campylorhynchus megalopterus | |
| Giant Wren | Campylorhynchus chiapensis | |
| Rufous-naped Wren | Campylorhynchus rufinucha | .. |
| Spotted Wren | Campylorhynchus gularis | |
| Boucard’s Wren | Campylorhynchus jocosus | |
| Yucatan Wren | Campylorhynchus yucatanicus | |
| Cactus Wren | Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus | .. |
| Stripe-backed Wren | Campylorhynchus nuchalis | |
| Fasciated Wren | Campylorhynchus fasciatus | . |
| Bicolored Wren | Campylorhynchus griseus | |
| Thrush-like Wren | Campylorhynchus turdinus | .. |
| Sooty-headed Wren | Pheugopedius spadix | |
| Black-bellied Wren | Pheugopedius fasciatoventris | . |
| Plain-tailed Wren | Pheugopedius euophrys | . |
| Inca Wren | Pheugopedius eisenmanni | |
| Whiskered Wren | Pheugopedius mystacalis | |
| Moustached Wren | Pheugopedius genibarbis | . |
| Coraya Wren | Pheugopedius coraya | . |
| Rufous-breasted Wren | Pheugopedius rutilus | . |
| Spot-breasted Wren | Pheugopedius maculipectus | |
| Speckle-breasted Wren | Pheugopedius sclateri | |
| Happy Wren | Pheugopedius felix | .. |
| Black-throated Wren | Pheugopedius atrogularis | |
| Sinaloa Wren | Thryophilus sinaloa | |
| Banded Wren | Thryophilus pleurostictus | |
| Rufous-and-white Wren | Thryophilus rufalbus | .. |
| Antioquia Wren | Thryophilus sernai | |
| Niceforo’s Wren | Thryophilus nicefori | |
| Stripe-breasted Wren | Cantorchilus thoracicus | |
| Stripe-throated Wren | Cantorchilus leucopogon | |
| Cabanis’s Wren | Cantorchilus modestus | |
| Canebrake Wren | Cantorchilus zeledoni | |
| Isthmian Wren | Cantorchilus elutus | .. |
| Riverside Wren | Cantorchilus semibadius | |
| Bay Wren | Cantorchilus nigricapillus | |
| Superciliated Wren | Cantorchilus superciliaris | . |
| Buff-breasted Wren | Cantorchilus leucotis | |
| Long-billed Wren | Cantorchilus longirostris | .. |
| Fawn-breasted Wren | Cantorchilus guarayanus | . |
| Gray Wren | Cantorchilus griseus | |
| Rufous Wren | Cinnycerthia unirufa | |
| Sharpe’s Wren | Cinnycerthia olivascens | . |
| Peruvian Wren | Cinnycerthia peruana | |
| Fulvous Wren | Cinnycerthia fulva | |
| White-bellied Wren | Uropsila leucogastra | |
| White-breasted Wood-Wren | Henicorhina leucosticta | . |
| Bar-winged Wood-Wren | Henicorhina leucoptera | . |
| Gray-breasted Wood-Wren | Henicorhina leucophrys | .. |
| Hermit Wood-Wren | Henicorhina anachoreta | |
| Munchique Wood-Wren | Henicorhina negreti | |
| Chestnut-breasted Wren | Cyphorhinus thoracicus | . |
| Song Wren | Cyphorhinus phaeocephalus | .. |
| Musician Wren | Cyphorhinus arada |
1 Rock Wren, USA; 2 Canyon Wren, Mexico; 3 House Wren, Brazil; 4 Eurasian Wren, Spain; 5 Isthmian Wren, Panama; 6 Long-billed Wren, Brazil; 7 Marsh Wren, Mexico; 8 Grass Wren, Argentina; 9 Bewick’s Wren, Mexico; 10 Gray-breasted Wood-Wren, Panama; 11 Rufous-and-white Wren, Panama; 12 Happy Wren, Mexico; 13 Thrush-like Wren, Brazil; 14 Rufous-naped Wren, Mexico; 15 Band-backed Wren, Mexico; 16 Cactus Wren, USA; 17 Song Wren, Panama
Family #208
Spotted Elachura (Elachuridae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Indomalayan endemic
- IOC family #212 (Elachura), HBW family #213 (Elachura), H&M family #218 (Scimitar Babblers and allies)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf250 status: 23% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen, 0 photographed, first seen in India 2018
- Finding Hints
| Spotted Elachura | Elachura formosa | . |
Family #209
Dippers (Cinclidae)
- Species: 5
- Distribution: Indomalaya, Nearctic, Neotropic, Palearctic
- IOC family #224, HBW family #201, H&M family #233
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf250 status: 93% members ticked
- OH: 4 seen and photographed, first seen in Ireland 2008
| White-throated Dipper | Cinclus cinclus | .. |
| Brown Dipper | Cinclus pallasii | .. |
| American Dipper | Cinclus mexicanus | .. |
| White-capped Dipper | Cinclus leucocephalus | .. |
| Rufous-throated Dipper | Cinclus schulzii |
1 American Dipper, USA; 2 Brown Dipper, India; 3 White-throated Dipper, Spain; 4 White-capped Dipper, Peru
Family #210
Oxpeckers (Buphagidae)
- Species: 2
- Distribution: Afrotropical endemic
- IOC family #221, HBW family #202, H&M family #230
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf250 status: 81% members ticked
- OH: 2 seen and photographed, first seen in Kenya 1983
| Red-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus erythrorynchus | .. |
| Yellow-billed Oxpecker | Buphagus africanus | .. |
1 Red-billed Oxpecker, South Africa; 2 Yellow-billed Oxpecker , South Africa
Family #211
Starlings (Sturnidae)
- Species: 125 (6 extinct)
- Distribution: Australasia, Afrotropic, Indomalaya, Palearctic (globally introduced)
- IOC family #220 (Starlings, Rhabdornises), HBW family #203, H&M family #232 (Starlings and Mynas)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf250 status: 98% members ticked
- OH: 54 seen, 40 photographed, first seen in Israel 1976
| Stripe-sided Rhabdornis | Rhabdornis mystacalis | |
| Long-billed Rhabdornis | Rhabdornis grandis | |
| Stripe-breasted Rhabdornis | Rhabdornis inornatus | |
| Visayan Rhabdornis | Rhabdornis rabori | |
| Fiery-browed Myna | Enodes erythrophris | .. |
| Finch-billed Myna | Scissirostrum dubium | .. |
| Metallic Starling | Aplonis metallica | .. |
| Yellow-eyed Starling | Aplonis mystacea | |
| Tanimbar Starling | Aplonis crassa | |
| Atoll Starling | Aplonis feadensis | |
| Rennell Starling | Aplonis insularis | |
| Long-tailed Starling | Aplonis magna | |
| White-eyed Starling | Aplonis brunneicapillus | |
| Brown-winged Starling | Aplonis grandis | |
| Makira Starling | Aplonis dichroa | |
| Rusty-winged Starling | Aplonis zelandica | |
| Striated Starling | Aplonis striata | .. |
| Pohnpei Starling | Aplonis pelzelni | |
| Singing Starling | Aplonis cantoroides | .. |
| Mountain Starling | Aplonis santovestris | |
| Asian Glossy Starling | Aplonis panayensis | .. |
| Moluccan Starling | Aplonis mysolensis | |
| Short-tailed Starling | Aplonis minor | |
| Micronesian Starling | Aplonis opaca | |
| Polynesian Starling | Aplonis tabuensis | |
| Samoan Starling | Aplonis atrifusca | |
| Kosrae Starling | Aplonis corvina | (extinct) |
| Rarotonga Starling | Aplonis cinerascens | |
| Mysterious Starling | Aplonis mavornata | (extinct) |
| Norfolk Starling | Aplonis fusca | (extinct) |
| Raiatea Starling | Aplonis ulietensis | (extinct) |
| Sulawesi Myna | Basilornis celebensis | . |
| Helmeted Myna | Basilornis galeatus | |
| Long-crested Myna | Basilornis corythaix | |
| Apo Myna | Goodfellowia miranda | |
| Coleto | Sarcops calvus | |
| White-necked Myna | Streptocitta albicollis | |
| Bare-eyed Myna | Streptocitta albertinae | |
| Yellow-faced Myna | Mino dumontii | .. |
| Golden Myna | Mino anais | .. |
| Long-tailed Myna | Mino kreffti | |
| Golden-crested Myna | Ampeliceps coronatus | |
| Sri Lanka Myna | Gracula ptilogenys | |
| Common Hill Myna | Gracula religiosa | .. |
| Tenggara Hill Myna | Gracula venerata | |
| Southern Hill Myna | Gracula indica | |
| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | .. |
| Spotless Starling | Sturnus unicolor | .. |
| Wattled Starling | Creatophora cinerea | .. |
| Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | .. |
| Daurian Starling | Agropsar sturninus | |
| Chestnut-cheeked Starling | Agropsar philippensis | |
| Black-collared Starling | Gracupica nigricollis | .. |
| Indian Pied Starling | Gracupica contra | .. |
| Siamese Pied Starling | Gracupica floweri | . |
| Javan Pied Starling | Gracupica jalla | |
| White-faced Starling | Sturnornis albofrontatus | |
| Bali Myna | Leucopsar rothschildi | |
| Rodrigues Starling | Necropsar rodericanus | (extinct) |
| Reunion Starling | Fregilupus varius | (extinct) |
| White-shouldered Starling | Sturnia sinensis | |
| Brahminy Starling | Sturnia pagodarum | |
| Chestnut-tailed Starling | Sturnia malabarica | .. |
| Malabar Starling | Sturnia blythii | |
| White-headed Starling | Sturnia erythropygia | |
| Red-billed Starling | Spodiopsar sericeus | |
| White-cheeked Starling | Spodiopsar cineraceus | |
| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | .. |
| Bank Myna | Acridotheres ginginianus | .. |
| Burmese Myna | Acridotheres burmannicus | .. |
| Vinous-breasted Myna | Acridotheres leucocephalus | |
| Black-winged Myna | Acridotheres melanopterus | |
| Jungle Myna | Acridotheres fuscus | .. |
| Javan Myna | Acridotheres javanicus | . |
| Pale-bellied Myna | Acridotheres cinereus | |
| Collared Myna | Acridotheres albocinctus | |
| Great Myna | Acridotheres grandis | .. |
| Crested Myna | Acridotheres cristatellus | .. |
| Madagascar Starling | Hartlaubius auratus | .. |
| Violet-backed Starling | Cinnyricinclus leucogaster | .. |
| Slender-billed Starling | Onychognathus tenuirostris | .. |
| Pale-winged Starling | Onychognathus nabouroup | |
| Neumann’s Starling | Onychognathus neumanni | |
| Red-winged Starling | Onychognathus morio | .. |
| Chestnut-winged Starling | Onychognathus fulgidus | . |
| Waller’s Starling | Onychognathus walleri | . |
| Tristram’s Starling | Onychognathus tristramii | .. |
| White-billed Starling | Onychognathus albirostris | |
| Bristle-crowned Starling | Onychognathus salvadorii | . |
| Somali Starling | Onychognathus blythii | |
| Socotra Starling | Onychognathus frater | |
| Spot-winged Starling | Saroglossa spilopterus | |
| Babbling Starling | Neocichla gutturalis | |
| White-collared Starling | Grafisia torquata | |
| Magpie Starling | Speculipastor bicolor | . |
| Sharpe’s Starling | Pholia sharpii | |
| Abbott’s Starling | Arizelopsar femoralis | |
| Narrow-tailed Starling | Poeoptera lugubris | . |
| Stuhlmann’s Starling | Poeoptera stuhlmanni | .. |
| Kenrick’s Starling | Poeoptera kenricki | . |
| Black-bellied Starling | Notopholia corusca | .. |
| Purple-headed Starling | Hylopsar purpureiceps | . |
| Copper-tailed Starling | Hylopsar cupreocauda | |
| Hildebrandt’s Starling | Lamprotornis hildebrandti | .. |
| Shelley’s Starling | Lamprotornis shelleyi | |
| Burchell’s Starling | Lamprotornis australis | . |
| Rüppell’s Starling | Lamprotornis purpuroptera | .. |
| Long-tailed Glossy Starling | Lamprotornis caudatus | .. |
| Meves’s Starling | Lamprotornis mevesii | .. |
| Ashy Starling | Lamprotornis unicolor | .. |
| Splendid Starling | Lamprotornis splendidus | . |
| Principe Starling | Lamprotornis ornatus | |
| Golden-breasted Starling | Lamprotornis regius | . |
| Superb Starling | Lamprotornis superbus | .. |
| Chestnut-bellied Starling | Lamprotornis pulcher | |
| African Pied Starling | Lamprotornis bicolor | .. |
| White-crowned Starling | Lamprotornis albicapillus | |
| Fischer’s Starling | Lamprotornis fischeri | . |
| Lesser Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chloropterus | |
| Sharp-tailed Starling | Lamprotornis acuticaudus | |
| Greater Blue-eared Starling | Lamprotornis chalybaeus | .. |
| Emerald Starling | Lamprotornis iris | |
| Purple Starling | Lamprotornis purpureus | .. |
| Cape Starling | Lamprotornis nitens | .. |
| Bronze-tailed Starling | Lamprotornis chalcurus | .. |
1 Metallic Starling, Australia; 2 Common Hill Myna, Thailand; 3 Great Myna, Thailand; 4 Common Myna, Thailand; 5 Crested Myna, Spain; 6 Bronze-tailed Glossy Starling, Ghana; 7 Vinous-breasted Starling, Israel; 8 Black-collared Starling, Thailand; 9 Superb Starling, Tanzania; 10 Rosy Starling, Israel; 11 Violet-backed Starling, Ghana; 12 Striated Starling, New Caledonia; 13 Long-tailed Glossy Starling, Ghana; 14 Stuhlmann’s Starling, Uganda; 15 Chestnut-tailed Starling, Thailand; 16 Common Starling, Israel; 17 Rueppell’s Glossy-Starling, Uganda; 18 Purple Glossy Starling, Ghana; 19 Wattled Starling, South Africa; 20 Jungle Myna, india; 21 Greater Blue-eared Glossy-Starling, South Africa; 22 Tristram’s Starling, Israel; 23 African Pied Starling, South Africa; 24 Bank Myna, India; 25 Cape Glossy-Starling, South Africa; 26 Red-winged Starling, South Africa; 27 Spotless Starling, Portugal; 28 Slender-billed Starling, Uganda; 29 Meves’s Glossy-Starling, South Africa; 30 Madagascan Starling, Madagascar; 31 Ashy Starling, Tanzania; 32 Pied Myna, India
33 Golden Myna, Papua New Guinea; 34 Hildebrandt’s Starling, Tanzania; 35 Asian Glossy Starling, Borneo (MY); 36 Singing Starling, Papua New Guinea; 37 Yellow-faced Myna, Papua New; Guinea; 38 Fiery-browed Myna, Sulawesy (ID); 39 Finch-billed Myna, Sulawesy (ID); 40 Madagascar Starling, Madagascar
Family #212
Mockingbirds and Thrashers (Mimidae)
- Species: 34
- Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropic
- IOC family #219, HBW family #204, H&M family #231
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf250 status: 89% members ticked
- OH: 14 seen, 13 photographed, first seen in USA 2002
| Blue Mockingbird | Melanotis caerulescens | .. |
| Blue-and-white Mockingbird | Melanotis hypoleucus | |
| Black Catbird | Melanoptila glabrirostris | |
| Gray Catbird | Dumetella carolinensis | .. |
| White-breasted Thrasher | Ramphocinclus brachyurus | |
| Scaly-breasted Thrasher | Allenia fusca | |
| Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | .. |
| Brown Trembler | Cinclocerthia ruficauda | |
| Gray Trembler | Cinclocerthia gutturalis | |
| Curve-billed Thrasher | Toxostoma curvirostre | .. |
| Ocellated Thrasher | Toxostoma ocellatum | |
| Brown Thrasher | Toxostoma rufum | . |
| Long-billed Thrasher | Toxostoma longirostre | .. |
| Cozumel Thrasher | Toxostoma guttatum | |
| Bendire’s Thrasher | Toxostoma bendirei | |
| Gray Thrasher | Toxostoma cinereum | |
| California Thrasher | Toxostoma redivivum | .. |
| LeConte’s Thrasher | Toxostoma lecontei | |
| Crissal Thrasher | Toxostoma crissale | |
| Sage Thrasher | Oreoscoptes montanus | .. |
| Chilean Mockingbird | Mimus thenca | |
| Patagonian Mockingbird | Mimus patagonicus | .. |
| Chalk-browed Mockingbird | Mimus saturninus | .. |
| White-banded Mockingbird | Mimus triurus | |
| Brown-backed Mockingbird | Mimus dorsalis | |
| Bahama Mockingbird | Mimus gundlachii | .. |
| Galapagos Mockingbird | Mimus parvulus | |
| Floreana Mockingbird | Mimus trifasciatus | |
| Española Mockingbird | Mimus macdonaldi | |
| San Cristobal Mockingbird | Mimus melanotis | |
| Long-tailed Mockingbird | Mimus longicaudatus | .. |
| Socorro Mockingbird | Mimus graysoni | |
| Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus | .. |
| Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | .. |
Pearly-eyed Thrasher, Puerto Rico 2022
Bahama Mockingbird, Cuba 2023
1 Chalk-browed Mockingbird, Argentina; 2 Long-tailed Mockingbird, Peru; 3 Patagonian Mockingbird, Argentina; 4 Gray Catbird, Mexico; 5 Long-billed Thrasher, USA; 6 Northern Mockingbird, USA; 7 Curve-billed Thrasher, Mexico; 8 Sage Thrasher, USA; 9 Blue Mockingbird, Mexico; 10 Tropical Mockingbird, Panama; 11 California Thrasher, USA
Family #213
Thrushes and Allies (Turdidae)
- Species: 175 (3 extinct)
- Distribution: Global
- IOC family #222 (Thrushes), HBW family #205 (Thrushes), H&M family #235 (Thrushes)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf250 status: 100% members ticked
- OH: 69 seen, 50 photographed, first seen in Israel 1976
| Grandala | Grandala coelicolor | .. |
| Eastern Bluebird | Sialia sialis | . |
| Western Bluebird | Sialia mexicana | .. |
| Mountain Bluebird | Sialia currucoides | .. |
| Rufous Flycatcher-Thrush | Stizorhina fraseri | . |
| Finsch’s Flycatcher-Thrush | Stizorhina finschi | |
| Red-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus rufus | .. |
| White-tailed Ant-Thrush | Neocossyphus poensis | . |
| Townsend’s Solitaire | Myadestes townsendi | . |
| Brown-backed Solitaire | Myadestes occidentalis | .. |
| Cuban Solitaire | Myadestes elisabeth | .. |
| Rufous-throated Solitaire | Myadestes genibarbis | .. |
| Black-faced Solitaire | Myadestes melanops | |
| Varied Solitaire | Myadestes coloratus | |
| Slate-colored Solitaire | Myadestes unicolor | |
| Andean Solitaire | Myadestes ralloides | .. |
| Kamao | Myadestes myadestinus | |
| Amaui | Myadestes woahensis | (extinct) |
| Olomao | Myadestes lanaiensis | |
| Omao | Myadestes obscurus | |
| Puaiohi | Myadestes palmeri | |
| Long-tailed Thrush | Zoothera dixoni | . |
| Alpine Thrush | Zoothera mollissima | .. |
| Himalayan Thrush | Zoothera salimalii | . |
| Sichuan Thrush | Zoothera griseiceps | |
| Geomalia | Zoothera heinrichi | . |
| Dark-sided Thrush | Zoothera marginata | .. |
| Long-billed Thrush | Zoothera monticola | |
| Everett’s Thrush | Zoothera everetti | .. |
| Sunda Thrush | Zoothera andromedae | |
| White’s Thrush | Zoothera aurea | |
| Scaly Thrush | Zoothera dauma | .. |
| Amami Thrush | Zoothera major | |
| Nilgiri Thrush | Zoothera neilgherriensis | |
| Sri Lanka Thrush | Zoothera imbricata | |
| Bonin Thrush | Zoothera terrestris | (extinct) |
| Makira Thrush | Zoothera margaretae | |
| Guadalcanal Thrush | Zoothera turipavae | |
| Bassian Thrush | Zoothera lunulata | .. |
| New Britain Thrush | Zoothera talaseae | |
| Bougainville Thrush | Zoothera atrigena | |
| Russet-tailed Thrush | Zoothera heinei | |
| Fawn-breasted Thrush | Zoothera machiki | |
| Sulawesi Thrush | Cataponera turdoides | . |
| Fruit-hunter | Chlamydochaera jefferyi | .. |
| Purple Cochoa | Cochoa purpurea | |
| Green Cochoa | Cochoa viridis | |
| Sumatran Cochoa | Cochoa beccarii | |
| Javan Cochoa | Cochoa azurea | |
| Varied Thrush | Ixoreus naevius | .. |
| Black-billed Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus gracilirostris | |
| Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus aurantiirostris | . |
| Slaty-backed Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus fuscater | |
| Russet Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus occidentalis | . |
| Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus frantzii | . |
| Black-headed Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus mexicanus | |
| Yellow-throated Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus dryas | |
| Speckled Nightingale-Thrush | Catharus maculatus | |
| Veery | Catharus fuscescens | . |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | Catharus minimus | |
| Bicknell’s Thrush | Catharus bicknelli | |
| Swainson’s Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | .. |
| Hermit Thrush | Catharus guttatus | .. |
| Wood Thrush | Hylocichla mustelina | . |
| Black Solitaire | Entomodestes coracinus | |
| White-eared Solitaire | Entomodestes leucotis | |
| Rufous-brown Solitaire | Cichlopsis leucogenys | |
| Aztec Thrush | Ridgwayia pinicola | |
| Siberian Thrush | Geokichla sibirica | |
| Pied Thrush | Geokichla wardii | |
| Spotted Ground-Thrush | Geokichla guttata | |
| Black-eared Ground-Thrush | Geokichla camaronensis | |
| Gray Ground-Thrush | Geokichla princei | |
| Crossley’s Ground-Thrush | Geokichla crossleyi | |
| Oberländer’s Ground-Thrush | Geokichla oberlaenderi | |
| Abyssinian Ground-Thrush | Geokichla piaggiae | |
| Orange Ground-Thrush | Geokichla gurneyi | .. |
| Spot-winged Thrush | Geokichla spiloptera | |
| Ashy Thrush | Geokichla cinerea | |
| Buru Thrush | Geokichla dumasi | |
| Seram Thrush | Geokichla joiceyi | |
| Chestnut-capped Thrush | Geokichla interpres | |
| Enggano Thrush | Geokichla leucolaema | |
| Chestnut-backed Thrush | Geokichla dohertyi | |
| Orange-banded Thrush | Geokichla peronii | |
| Slaty-backed Thrush | Geokichla schistacea | |
| Rusty-backed Thrush | Geokichla erythronota | |
| Red-and-black Thrush | Geokichla mendeni | |
| Orange-headed Thrush | Geokichla citrina | .. |
| Chinese Thrush | Turdus mupinensis | |
| Ethiopian Thrush | Turdus simensis | |
| Groundscraper Thrush | Turdus litsitsirupa | .. |
| Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | .. |
| Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | .. |
| Abyssinian Thrush | Turdus abyssinicus | .. |
| Taita Thrush | Turdus helleri | |
| Usambara Thrush | Turdus roehli | . |
| Redwing | Turdus iliacus | .. |
| Mountain Thrush | Turdus plebejus | . |
| Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | .. |
| Pale-breasted Thrush | Turdus leucomelas | .. |
| Cocoa Thrush | Turdus fumigatus | |
| Hauxwell’s Thrush | Turdus hauxwelli | |
| Yellow-legged Thrush | Turdus flavipes | .. |
| Pale-vented Thrush | Turdus obsoletus | |
| White-throated Thrush | Turdus assimilis | . |
| White-necked Thrush | Turdus albicollis | .. |
| Rufous-bellied Thrush | Turdus rufiventris | .. |
| Clay-colored Thrush | Turdus grayi | .. |
| Spectacled Thrush | Turdus nudigenis | |
| Ecuadorian Thrush | Turdus maculirostris | .. |
| Varzea Thrush | Turdus sanchezorum | |
| Unicolored Thrush | Turdus haplochrous | |
| Somali Thrush | Turdus ludoviciae | |
| Chinese Blackbird | Turdus mandarinus | |
| African Bare-eyed Thrush | Turdus tephronotus | .. |
| Kurrichane Thrush | Turdus libonyana | .. |
| Comoro Thrush | Turdus bewsheri | |
| Yemen Thrush | Turdus menachensis | |
| Olive Thrush | Turdus olivaceus | .. |
| Karoo Thrush | Turdus smithi | |
| Forest Thrush | Turdus lherminieri | |
| Pale-eyed Thrush | Turdus leucops | |
| White-eyed Thrush | Turdus jamaicensis | |
| La Selle Thrush | Turdus swalesi | .. |
| Black Thrush | Turdus infuscatus | |
| Sooty Thrush | Turdus nigrescens | |
| American Robin | Turdus migratorius | .. |
| Rufous-backed Robin | Turdus rufopalliatus | .. |
| Rufous-collared Robin | Turdus rufitorques | |
| Austral Thrush | Turdus falcklandii | .. |
| Plumbeous-backed Thrush | Turdus reevei | |
| Blacksmith Thrush | Turdus subalaris | .. |
| Lawrence’s Thrush | Turdus lawrencii | |
| Pantepui Thrush | Turdus murinus | |
| Tristan Thrush | Turdus eremita | |
| Creamy-bellied Thrush | Turdus amaurochalinus | .. |
| Black-billed Thrush | Turdus ignobilis | .. |
| Campina Thrush | Turdus arthuri | |
| Marañon Thrush | Turdus maranonicus | |
| Chestnut-bellied Thrush | Turdus fulviventris | |
| Black-hooded Thrush | Turdus olivater | |
| Great Thrush | Turdus fuscater | .. |
| Chiguanco Thrush | Turdus chiguanco | .. |
| Andean Slaty Thrush | Turdus nigriceps | |
| Glossy-black Thrush | Turdus serranus | .. |
| Principe Thrush | Turdus xanthorhynchus | |
| Sao Tome Thrush | Turdus olivaceofuscus | |
| White-chinned Thrush | Turdus aurantius | |
| Grand Cayman Thrush | Turdus ravidus | (extinct) |
| Red-legged Thrush | Turdus plumbeus | .. |
| African Thrush | Turdus pelios | .. |
| Taiwan Thrush | Turdus niveiceps | |
| Gray-winged Blackbird | Turdus boulboul | . |
| Indian Blackbird | Turdus simillimus | |
| Japanese Thrush | Turdus cardis | |
| Gray-backed Thrush | Turdus hortulorum | |
| Tickell’s Thrush | Turdus unicolor | |
| Black-breasted Thrush | Turdus dissimilis | |
| Gray-sided Thrush | Turdus feae | |
| Eyebrowed Thrush | Turdus obscurus | . |
| Brown-headed Thrush | Turdus chrysolaus | |
| Izu Thrush | Turdus celaenops | |
| Pale Thrush | Turdus pallidus | |
| Island Thrush | Turdus poliocephalus | .. |
| White-backed Thrush | Turdus kessleri | |
| Tibetan Blackbird | Turdus maximus | |
| Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | .. |
| White-collared Blackbird | Turdus albocinctus | .. |
| Chestnut Thrush | Turdus rubrocanus | |
| Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | . |
| Black-throated Thrush | Turdus atrogularis | .. |
| Red-throated Thrush | Turdus ruficollis | |
| Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | |
| Naumann’s Thrush | Turdus naumanni |
1 Scaly Thrush, Thailand; 2 Olive-tailed Thrush, Australia; 3 Western Bluebird, USA; 4 Mountain Bluebird, USA; 5 Pale-breasted Thrush, Brazil; 6 Brown-backed Solitaire, Mexico; 7 Eastern Slaty Thrush, Brazil; 8 Rufous-throated Solitaire, Dominican Republic; 9 Ecuadorian Thrush, Ecuador; 10 Andean Solitaire, Peru; 11 Mistle Thrush, Denmark; 12 Yellow-legged Thrush, Brazil; 13 Eurasian Blackbird, Israel; 14 Black-throated Thrush, Israel; 15 Kurrichane Thrush, South Africa; 16 Song Thrush, England; 17 Hermit Thrush, USA; 18 Groundscraper Thrush, Ethiopia; 19 African Thrush, Uganda; 20 Black-billed Thrush, Ecuador; 21 Red-tailed Ant-thrush, Uganda; 22 Fieldfare, Israel; 23 Rufous-bellied Thrush, Brazil; 24 Abyssinian Thrush, Ethiopia; 25 Red-legged Thrush, Dominican Republic; 26 La Selle Thrush, Dominican Republic; 27 White-necked Thrush, Brazil; 28 Glossy-black Thrush, Ecuador; 29 Swainson’s Thrush, USA; 30 Orange Ground-Thrush, South Africa; 31 Creamy-bellied Thrush, Brazil; 32 Great Thrush, Peru; 33 Rufous-backed Robin, Mexico; 34 Redwing, Israel; 35 American Robin, USA; 36 White-collared Blackbird, India; 37 Grandala, India; 38 Dark-sided Thrush, Thailand; 39 Orange-headed Thrush, Thailand; 40 Varied Thrush, USA; 41 Olive Thrush, South Africa; 42 Clay-colored Thrush, USA; 43 Austral Thrush, Argentina; 44 Chiguanco Thrush, Argentina; 45 Alpine Thrush, India
46 African Bare-eyed Thrush, Tanzania; 47 Fruit-hunter, Borneo (MY); 48 Cuban Solitare, Cuba; 49 Island Thrush, Papua New Guinea; 50 Everett’s Thrush, Borneo (MY)
Family #214
Old World Flycatchers (Muscicapidae)
- Species: 345
- Distribution: Afrotropic, Australasia, Indomalaya, Nearctic, Palearctic
- IOC family #223 (Chats, Old World Flycatchers), HBW family #206 (Old World Flycatchers and Chats), H&M family #234 (Chats and Flycatchers)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Muscicapoid Oscines
- wf250 status: 97% members ticked
- OH: 149 seen, 133 photographed, first seen in Israel 1976
| Gray-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa griseisticta | |
| Dark-sided Flycatcher | Muscicapa sibirica | |
| Ferruginous Flycatcher | Muscicapa ferruginea | |
| Asian Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa dauurica | .. |
| Ashy-breasted Flycatcher | Muscicapa randi | |
| Sumba Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa segregata | |
| Brown-breasted Flycatcher | Muscicapa muttui | |
| Sulawesi Brown Flycatcher | Muscicapa sodhii | |
| Brown-streaked Flycatcher | Muscicapa williamsoni | |
| African Dusky Flycatcher | Muscicapa adusta | .. |
| Little Flycatcher | Muscicapa epulata | |
| Yellow-footed Flycatcher | Muscicapa sethsmithi | |
| Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | .. |
| Gambaga Flycatcher | Muscicapa gambagae | .. |
| Swamp Flycatcher | Muscicapa aquatica | .. |
| Cassin’s Flycatcher | Muscicapa cassini | .. |
| Böhm’s Flycatcher | Bradornis boehmi | |
| Ussher’s Flycatcher | Bradornis ussheri | . |
| Sooty Flycatcher | Bradornis fuliginosus | |
| Dusky-blue Flycatcher | Bradornis comitatus | .. |
| Marico Flycatcher | Bradornis mariquensis | .. |
| African Gray Flycatcher | Bradornis microrhynchus | .. |
| Pale Flycatcher | Agricola pallidus | .. |
| Chat Flycatcher | Agricola infuscatus | |
| White-browed Forest-Flycatcher | Fraseria cinerascens | |
| African Forest-Flycatcher | Fraseria ocreata | .. |
| Gray-throated Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria griseigularis | . |
| Gray Tit-Flycatcher | Fraseria plumbea | .. |
| Olivaceous Flycatcher | Fraseria olivascens | |
| Chapin’s Flycatcher | Fraseria lendu | .. |
| Tessmann’s Flycatcher | Fraseria tessmanni | |
| Ashy Flycatcher | Fraseria caerulescens | .. |
| Herero Chat | Melaenornis herero | |
| Silverbird | Melaenornis semipartitus | . |
| Fiscal Flycatcher | Melaenornis silens | .. |
| Yellow-eyed Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis ardesiacus | |
| Nimba Flycatcher | Melaenornis annamarulae | |
| Northern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis edolioides | .. |
| Southern Black-Flycatcher | Melaenornis pammelaina | .. |
| White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis fischeri | .. |
| Angola Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis brunneus | |
| Abyssinian Slaty-Flycatcher | Melaenornis chocolatinus | .. |
| Grande Comore Flycatcher | Humblotia flavirostris | |
| White-tailed Alethe | Alethe diademata | |
| Fire-crested Alethe | Alethe castanea | |
| Karoo Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas coryphoeus | .. |
| Forest Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas leucosticta | |
| Brown Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas signata | |
| Bearded Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas quadrivirgata | |
| Miombo Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas barbata | |
| Black Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas podobe | .. |
| Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas galactotes | .. |
| Kalahari Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas paena | . |
| Brown-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas hartlaubi | . |
| Red-backed Scrub-Robin | Cercotrichas leucophrys | .. |
| Indian Robin | Copsychus fulicatus | .. |
| Oriental Magpie-Robin | Copsychus saularis | .. |
| Rufous-tailed Shama | Copsychus pyrropygus | |
| Madagascar Magpie-Robin | Copsychus albospecularis | .. |
| Seychelles Magpie-Robin | Copsychus sechellarum | |
| Philippine Magpie-Robin | Copsychus mindanensis | |
| White-rumped Shama | Copsychus malabaricus | .. |
| White-crowned Shama | Copsychus stricklandii | .. |
| Andaman Shama | Copsychus albiventris | |
| White-browed Shama | Copsychus luzoniensis | |
| Visayan Shama | Copsychus superciliaris | |
| White-vented Shama | Copsychus niger | |
| Black Shama | Copsychus cebuensis | |
| White-tailed Flycatcher | Leucoptilon concretum | |
| Nilgiri Sholakili | Sholicola major | |
| White-bellied Sholakili | Sholicola albiventris | |
| Large Niltava | Niltava grandis | .. |
| Small Niltava | Niltava macgrigoriae | .. |
| Fujian Niltava | Niltava davidi | |
| Rufous-bellied Niltava | Niltava sundara | .. |
| Rufous-vented Niltava | Niltava sumatrana | |
| Chinese Vivid Niltava | Niltava oatesi | |
| Taiwan Vivid Niltava | Niltava vivida | |
| Blue-and-white Flycatcher | Cyanoptila cyanomelana | |
| Zappey’s Flycatcher | Cyanoptila cumatilis | |
| Matinan Flycatcher | Eumyias sanfordi | |
| Blue-fronted Flycatcher | Eumyias hoevelli | .. |
| Timor Blue Flycatcher | Eumyias hyacinthinus | |
| Flores Jungle Flycatcher | Eumyias oscillans | |
| Sumba Jungle Flycatcher | Eumyias stresemanni | |
| Dull-blue Flycatcher | Eumyias sordidus | |
| Nilgiri Flycatcher | Eumyias albicaudatus | |
| Indigo Flycatcher | Eumyias indigo | .. |
| Verditer Flycatcher | Eumyias thalassinus | .. |
| Buru Jungle Flycatcher | Eumyias additus | |
| Turquoise Flycatcher | Eumyias panayensis | .. |
| White-gorgeted Flycatcher | Anthipes monileger | . |
| Rufous-browed Flycatcher | Anthipes solitaris | |
| Rück’s Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis ruckii | |
| Blue-breasted Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis herioti | |
| Rufous-breasted Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis camarinensis | |
| Hainan Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis hainanus | |
| White-bellied Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis pallidipes | |
| Pale-chinned Flycatcher | Cyornis poliogenys | |
| Pale Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis unicolor | .. |
| Blue-throated Flycatcher | Cyornis rubeculoides | . |
| Chinese Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis glaucicomans | |
| Large Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis magnirostris | |
| Hill Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis whitei | .. |
| Javan Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis banyumas | .. |
| Dayak Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis montanus | .. |
| Meratus Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis kadayangensis | |
| Sunda Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis caerulatus | |
| Malaysian Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis turcosus | .. |
| Palawan Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis lemprieri | |
| Bornean Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis superbus | . |
| Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis tickelliae | |
| Indochinese Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis sumatrensis | .. |
| Mangrove Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis rufigastra | .. |
| Sulawesi Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis omissus | |
| Kalao Blue Flycatcher | Cyornis kalaoensis | |
| Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis brunneatus | |
| Nicobar Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis nicobaricus | |
| Gray-chested Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis umbratilis | |
| Fulvous-chested Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis olivaceus | |
| Chestnut-tailed Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis ruficauda | |
| Banggai Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis pelingensis | |
| Sula Jungle Flycatcher | Cyornis colonus | |
| White-bellied Robin-Chat | Cossyphicula roberti | .. |
| Mountain Robin-Chat | Cossypha isabellae | |
| Archer’s Robin-Chat | Cossypha archeri | .. |
| Olive-flanked Robin-Chat | Cossypha anomala | |
| Cape Robin-Chat | Cossypha caffra | .. |
| White-throated Robin-Chat | Cossypha humeralis | .. |
| Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat | Cossypha cyanocampter | |
| Rüppell’s Robin-Chat | Cossypha semirufa | .. |
| White-browed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heuglini | .. |
| Red-capped Robin-Chat | Cossypha natalensis | .. |
| Chorister Robin-Chat | Cossypha dichroa | |
| White-headed Robin-Chat | Cossypha heinrichi | |
| Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha niveicapilla | .. |
| White-crowned Robin-Chat | Cossypha albicapillus | .. |
| Angola Cave-Chat | Xenocopsychus ansorgei | |
| Collared Palm-Thrush | Cichladusa arquata | |
| Rufous-tailed Palm-Thrush | Cichladusa ruficauda | |
| Spotted Morning-Thrush | Cichladusa guttata | .. |
| European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | .. |
| White-starred Robin | Pogonocichla stellata | .. |
| Swynnerton’s Robin | Swynnertonia swynnertoni | |
| Brown-chested Alethe | Chamaetylas poliocephala | |
| Red-throated Alethe | Chamaetylas poliophrys | . |
| Cholo Alethe | Chamaetylas choloensis | |
| White-chested Alethe | Chamaetylas fuelleborni | .. |
| Olive-backed Forest Robin | Stiphrornis pyrrholaemus | |
| Orange-breasted Forest Robin | Stiphrornis erythrothorax | |
| Yellow-breasted Forest Robin | Stiphrornis mabirae | .. |
| Gray-winged Robin-Chat | Sheppardia polioptera | . |
| Short-tailed Akalat | Sheppardia poensis | |
| Bocage’s Akalat | Sheppardia bocagei | |
| Lowland Akalat | Sheppardia cyornithopsis | .. |
| Equatorial Akalat | Sheppardia aequatorialis | |
| Sharpe’s Akalat | Sheppardia sharpei | . |
| East Coast Akalat | Sheppardia gunningi | |
| Gabela Akalat | Sheppardia gabela | |
| Usambara Akalat | Sheppardia montana | . |
| Iringa Akalat | Sheppardia lowei | |
| Rubeho Akalat | Sheppardia aurantiithorax | |
| Bagobo Robin | Leonardina woodi | |
| Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher | Vauriella gularis | .. |
| Rusty-flanked Jungle Flycatcher | Vauriella insignis | |
| Negros Jungle Flycatcher | Vauriella albigularis | |
| Mindanao Jungle Flycatcher | Vauriella goodfellowi | |
| Great Shortwing | Heinrichia calligyna | |
| Rusty-bellied Shortwing | Brachypteryx hyperythra | |
| Lesser Shortwing | Brachypteryx leucophris | .. |
| Himalayan Shortwing | Brachypteryx cruralis | . |
| Chinese Shortwing | Brachypteryx sinensis | |
| Taiwan Shortwing | Brachypteryx goodfellowi | |
| Philippine Shortwing | Brachypteryx poliogyna | |
| Bornean Shortwing | Brachypteryx erythrogyna | .. |
| Sumatran Shortwing | Brachypteryx saturata | |
| Javan Shortwing | Brachypteryx montana | |
| Flores Shortwing | Brachypteryx floris | |
| Gould’s Shortwing | Heteroxenicus stellatus | |
| Rufous-tailed Robin | Larvivora sibilans | |
| Rufous-headed Robin | Larvivora ruficeps | |
| Japanese Robin | Larvivora akahige | |
| Izu Robin | Larvivora tanensis | |
| Ryukyu Robin | Larvivora komadori | |
| Okinawa Robin | Larvivora namiyei | |
| Indian Blue Robin | Larvivora brunnea | |
| Siberian Blue Robin | Larvivora cyane | .. |
| White-throated Robin | Irania gutturalis | .. |
| Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | .. |
| Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | .. |
| White-bellied Redstart | Luscinia phaenicuroides | |
| Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | .. |
| Sri Lanka Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus blighi | |
| Shiny Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus melanurus | |
| Javan Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus glaucinus | |
| Sumatran Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus castaneus | |
| Bornean Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus borneensis | .. |
| Malayan Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus robinsoni | |
| Malabar Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus horsfieldii | |
| Taiwan Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus insularis | |
| Blue Whistling-Thrush | Myophonus caeruleus | .. |
| Little Forktail | Enicurus scouleri | .. |
| White-crowned Forktail | Enicurus leschenaulti | .. |
| Bornean Forktail | Enicurus borneensis | .. |
| Spotted Forktail | Enicurus maculatus | |
| Sunda Forktail | Enicurus velatus | |
| Chestnut-naped Forktail | Enicurus ruficapillus | |
| Black-backed Forktail | Enicurus immaculatus | .. |
| Slaty-backed Forktail | Enicurus schistaceus | .. |
| Firethroat | Calliope pectardens | |
| Blackthroat | Calliope obscura | |
| Siberian Rubythroat | Calliope calliope | .. |
| Himalayan Rubythroat | Calliope pectoralis | |
| Chinese Rubythroat | Calliope tschebaiewi | |
| White-tailed Robin | Myiomela leucura | .. |
| Sunda Robin | Myiomela diana | |
| Blue-fronted Robin | Cinclidium frontale | |
| Red-flanked Bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | .. |
| Himalayan Bluetail | Tarsiger rufilatus | .. |
| Rufous-breasted Bush-Robin | Tarsiger hyperythrus | |
| White-browed Bush-Robin | Tarsiger indicus | .. |
| Golden Bush-Robin | Tarsiger chrysaeus | |
| Collared Bush-Robin | Tarsiger johnstoniae | |
| Yellow-rumped Flycatcher | Ficedula zanthopygia | |
| Green-backed Flycatcher | Ficedula elisae | |
| Narcissus Flycatcher | Ficedula narcissina | |
| Ryukyu Flycatcher | Ficedula owstoni | |
| Mugimaki Flycatcher | Ficedula mugimaki | .. |
| Slaty-backed Flycatcher | Ficedula erithacus | |
| Black-and-orange Flycatcher | Ficedula nigrorufa | |
| Slaty-blue Flycatcher | Ficedula tricolor | . |
| Snowy-browed Flycatcher | Ficedula hyperythra | .. |
| Pygmy Flycatcher | Ficedula hodgsoni | .. |
| Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher | Ficedula strophiata | |
| Sapphire Flycatcher | Ficedula sapphira | |
| Little Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula westermanni | .. |
| Ultramarine Flycatcher | Ficedula superciliaris | |
| Rusty-tailed Flycatcher | Ficedula ruficauda | |
| Taiga Flycatcher | Ficedula albicilla | .. |
| Kashmir Flycatcher | Ficedula subrubra | |
| Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | .. |
| Semicollared Flycatcher | Ficedula semitorquata | .. |
| European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | .. |
| Atlas Flycatcher | Ficedula speculigera | |
| Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | .. |
| Tanimbar Flycatcher | Ficedula riedeli | |
| Rufous-chested Flycatcher | Ficedula dumetoria | |
| Palawan Flycatcher | Ficedula platenae | |
| Furtive Flycatcher | Ficedula disposita | |
| Rufous-throated Flycatcher | Ficedula rufigula | |
| Damar Flycatcher | Ficedula henrici | |
| Cinnamon-chested Flycatcher | Ficedula buruensis | |
| Lompobattang Flycatcher | Ficedula bonthaina | |
| Sumba Flycatcher | Ficedula harterti | |
| Black-banded Flycatcher | Ficedula timorensis | |
| Little Slaty Flycatcher | Ficedula basilanica | |
| Cryptic Flycatcher | Ficedula crypta | |
| Bundok Flycatcher | Ficedula luzoniensis | |
| Blue-fronted Redstart | Phoenicurus frontalis | .. |
| Plumbeous Redstart | Phoenicurus fuliginosus | .. |
| Luzon Redstart | Phoenicurus bicolor | |
| Rufous-backed Redstart | Phoenicurus erythronotus | |
| White-capped Redstart | Phoenicurus leucocephalus | .. |
| Ala Shan Redstart | Phoenicurus alaschanicus | |
| Blue-capped Redstart | Phoenicurus coeruleocephala | |
| Moussier’s Redstart | Phoenicurus moussieri | |
| Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | .. |
| Hodgson’s Redstart | Phoenicurus hodgsoni | |
| White-throated Redstart | Phoenicurus schisticeps | |
| White-winged Redstart | Phoenicurus erythrogastrus | |
| Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | .. |
| Daurian Redstart | Phoenicurus auroreus | .. |
| Little Rock-Thrush | Monticola rufocinereus | |
| Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush | Monticola rufiventris | .. |
| White-throated Rock-Thrush | Monticola gularis | .. |
| Blue-capped Rock-Thrush | Monticola cinclorhyncha | .. |
| Short-toed Rock-Thrush | Monticola brevipes | |
| Sentinel Rock-Thrush | Monticola explorator | |
| Littoral Rock-Thrush | Monticola imerina | .. |
| Amber Mountain Rock-Thrush | Monticola erythronotus | |
| Forest Rock-Thrush | Monticola sharpei | .. |
| Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | .. |
| Blue Rock-Thrush | Monticola solitarius | .. |
| Miombo Rock-Thrush | Monticola angolensis | |
| Cape Rock-Thrush | Monticola rupestris | |
| White-winged Cliff-Chat | Monticola semirufus | .. |
| Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | .. |
| White-browed Bushchat | Saxicola macrorhynchus | |
| White-throated Bushchat | Saxicola insignis | |
| Fuerteventura Stonechat | Saxicola dacotiae | |
| European Stonechat | Saxicola rubicola | .. |
| Siberian Stonechat | Saxicola maurus | .. |
| Amur Stonechat | Saxicola stejnegeri | |
| African Stonechat | Saxicola torquatus | .. |
| Reunion Stonechat | Saxicola tectes | |
| White-tailed Stonechat | Saxicola leucurus | |
| Pied Bushchat | Saxicola caprata | .. |
| Jerdon’s Bushchat | Saxicola jerdoni | |
| Gray Bushchat | Saxicola ferreus | .. |
| Timor Bushchat | Saxicola gutturalis | |
| Buff-streaked Chat | Campicoloides bifasciatus | |
| Sickle-winged Chat | Emarginata sinuata | |
| Karoo Chat | Emarginata schlegelii | .. |
| Tractrac Chat | Emarginata tractrac | .. |
| Moorland Chat | Pinarochroa sordida | . |
| Mocking Cliff-Chat | Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris | .. |
| Sooty Chat | Myrmecocichla nigra | .. |
| Northern Anteater-Chat | Myrmecocichla aethiops | . |
| Southern Anteater-Chat | Myrmecocichla formicivora | .. |
| Congo Moor Chat | Myrmecocichla tholloni | |
| Mountain Wheatear | Myrmecocichla monticola | .. |
| Rüppell’s Chat | Myrmecocichla melaena | |
| Arnot’s Chat | Myrmecocichla arnotti | |
| Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | .. |
| Atlas Wheatear | Oenanthe seebohmi | |
| Capped Wheatear | Oenanthe pileata | .. |
| Buff-breasted Wheatear | Oenanthe bottae | .. |
| Rusty-breasted Wheatear | Oenanthe frenata | |
| Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | .. |
| Heuglin’s Wheatear | Oenanthe heuglinii | |
| Hooded Wheatear | Oenanthe monacha | .. |
| Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | .. |
| Western Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | .. |
| Cyprus Wheatear | Oenanthe cypriaca | .. |
| Eastern Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe melanoleuca | |
| Pied Wheatear | Oenanthe pleschanka | .. |
| White-fronted Black-Chat | Oenanthe albifrons | .. |
| Somali Wheatear | Oenanthe phillipsi | |
| Red-rumped Wheatear | Oenanthe moesta | .. |
| Blackstart | Oenanthe melanura | .. |
| Familiar Chat | Oenanthe familiaris | .. |
| Sombre Rock Chat | Oenanthe dubia | |
| Brown-tailed Chat | Oenanthe scotocerca | |
| Brown Rock Chat | Oenanthe fusca | .. |
| Variable Wheatear | Oenanthe picata | |
| Black Wheatear | Oenanthe leucura | .. |
| Hume’s Wheatear | Oenanthe albonigra | |
| White-crowned Wheatear | Oenanthe leucopyga | .. |
| Arabian Wheatear | Oenanthe lugentoides | |
| Abyssinian Wheatear | Oenanthe lugubris | .. |
| Finsch’s Wheatear | Oenanthe finschii | .. |
| Mourning Wheatear | Oenanthe lugens | .. |
| Kurdish Wheatear | Oenanthe xanthoprymna | .. |
| Persian Wheatear | Oenanthe chrysopygia | .. |
| Boulder Chat | Pinarornis plumosus |
click for bird names in the collage above:
1 Spotted Flycatcher, Israel;2 Asian Brown Flycatcher, Thailand; 3 Black Scrub-Robin, Israel; 4 Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin, Israel; 5 Oriental Magpie-Robin, Thailand; 6 White-rumped Shama, Thailand; 7 Hill Blue-Flycatcher, Thailand; 8 Indochinese Blue Flycatcher, Thailand; 9 Large Niltava, Thailand; 10 Small Niltava, Thailand; 11 Rufous-bellied Niltava, Thailand; 12 Verditer Flycatcher, Thailand; 13 European Robin, Israel; 14 Lesser Shortwing, Thailand; 15 Siberian Blue Robin, Thailand; 16 White-throated Robin, Israel; 17 Common Nightingale, Israel; 18 Bluethroat, Israel; 19 Blue Whistling-Thrush, Thailand; 20 Black-backed Forktail, Thailand; 21 Slaty-backed Forktail, Thailand; 22 Siberian Rubythroat, Thailand; 23 White-tailed Robin, Thailand; 24 Plumbeous Redstart, Thailand; 25 Red-flanked Bluetail, Finland; 26 Himalayan Bluetail, Thailand; 27 Little Pied Flycatcher, Thailand; 28 Taiga Flycatcher, Thailand; 29 European Pied Flycatcher, Israel; 30 Collared Flycatcher, Poland; 31 Semicollared Flycatcher, Israel; 32 Mugimaki Flycatcher, Thailand; 33 Red-breasted Flycatcher, Israel; 34 White-capped Redstart, Thailand; 35 Common Redstart, Israel; 36 Daurian Redstart, Thailand; 37 Grey Tit-Flycatcher, Uganda; 38 Black Redstart, Israel; 39 Chestnut-bellied Rock-Thrush, Thailand; 40 White-throated Rock-Thrush, Thailandl; 41 Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush, Israel; 42 Blue Rock-Thrush, Israel; 43 Whinchat, Israel; 44 European Stonechat, Israel; 45 Siberian Stonechat, Israel; 46 Pied Bushchat, Israel; 47 Gray Bushchat, Thailand; 48 Blackstart, Israel; 49 White-crowned Wheatear, Israel; 50 Dusky-blue Flycatcher, Ghana; 51 Black Wheatear, Spain; 52 Finsch’s Wheatear, Israel ; 53 Hooded Wheatear, Israel; 54 Northern Wheatear, Israel; 55 Mourning Wheatear, Israel; 56 Pied Wheatear, Israel; 57 Cyprus Wheatear, Israel; 58 Kurdish Wheatear, Israel; 59 Black-eared Wheatear, Israel; 60 Desert Wheatear, Israel; 61 Isabelline Wheatear, Israel; 62 Capped Wheatear, South Africa; 63 Red-breasted Wheatear, Ethiopia; 64 Red-rumped Wheatear, Israel; 65 Mountain Wheatear, South Africa; 66 African Stonechat, South Africa; 67 Karoo Chat, South Africa; 68 Tractrac Chat, South Africa; 69 Familiar Chat, South Africa; 70 Karoo Scrub-Robin, South Africa; 71 Cape Robin-Chat, South Africa; 72 White-browed Robin-Chat, Uganda; 73 White-throated Robin-Chat, South Africa; 74 Ruppell’s Robin-Chat, Ethiopia; 75 Red-capped Robin-Chat, Uganda; 76 White-bellied Robin-Chat, Uganda; 77 Archer’s Robin-Chat, Uganda; 78 Littoral Rock Thrush, Madagascar; 79 Snowy-crowned Robin-Chat, Uganda; 80 Forest Robin, Uganda; 81 White-crowned Robin-Chat, Ghana; 82 White-starred Robin, Uganda; 83 Lowland Akalat, Uganda; 84 Sooty Chat, Uganda; 85 Mocking Cliff-Chat, Uganda; 86 White-winged Cliff-Chat, Ethiopia; 87 Pale Flycatcher, Uganda; 88 Cassin’s Flycatcher, Uganda; 89 Madagascar Magpie-Robin, Madagascar; 90 White-fronted Black-Chat, Ghana; 91 Chapin’s Flycatcher, Uganda; 92 Ashy Flycatcher, South Africa; 93 Northern Black-Flycatcher, Uganda; 94 Swamp Flycatcher, Uganda; 95 Abyssinian-Slaty Flycatcher, Ethiopia; 96 Madagascan Stonechat, Madagascar; 97 Gambaga Flycatcher, Ghana; 98 Southern Anteater-Chat, South Africa; 99 Mariqua Flycatcher, South Africa; 100 African Dusky Flycatcher, South Africa; 101 Fiscal Flycatcher, South Africa; 102 Blue-fronted Redstart, India; 103 Blue-capped Rock-thrush, India; 104 White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher, Uganda; 105 Forest Rock-Thrush, Madagascar; 106 African Forest-Flycatcher, Ghana; 107 Thrush Nightingale, Israel; 108 White-browed Bush-Robin, India; 109 Persian Wheatear, Israel; 110 Pygmy Flycatcher, India; 111 Pale Blue Flycatcher, India
112 Brown Rock Chat, India; 113 Bornean Whistling-Thrush, Borneo (MY); 114 Indian Robin, India; 115 Little Forktail, India; 116 Bornean Forktail, Borneo (MY); 117 White-crowned Forktail, Borneo (MY)
118 African Gray Flycatcher, Tanzania; 119 Southern Black-Flycatcher, Tanzania; 120 White-chested Alethe, Tanzania; 121 Abyssinian Wheatear, Tanzania; 122 Eyebrowed Jungle Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 123 Spotted Morning-Thrush, Tanzania; 124 Red-backed Scrub-Robin, Tanzania; 125 Bornean Shortwing, Borneo (MY)
126 Blue-fronted Flycatcher, Sulawesy (ID); 127 Turquoise Flycatcher, Sulawesy (ID); 128 Snowy-browed Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 129 Dayak Blue Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 130 Indigo Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 131 Blue Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 132 Mangrove Blue Flycatcher, Borneo (MY); 133 White-crowned Shama, Borneo (MY)
Family #215
Waxwings (Bombycillidae)
- Species: 3
- Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropic, Palearctic
- IOC family #175, HBW family #211, H&M family #223
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf250 status: 88% members ticked
- OH: 2 seen and photographed, first seen in USA 2007
| Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | .. |
| Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum | .. |
| Japanese Waxwing | Bombycilla japonica |
1 Bohemian Waxwing, Norway ;2 Cedar Waxwing, USA
Family #not counted
Hawaiian Honeyeaters (Mohoidae) - extinct
- Species: 5 (5 extinct)
- IOC Family: Oos
| Kauai Oo | Moho braccatus | (Extinct) |
| Oahu Oo | Moho apicalis | (Extinct) |
| Bishop’s Oo | Moho bishopi | (Extinct) |
| Hawaii Oo | Moho nobilis | (Extinct) |
| Kioea | Chaetoptila angustipluma | (Extinct) |
Family #216
Silky-flycatchers (Ptiliogonatidae)
- Species: 4
- Distribution: Nearctic, Neotropic
- IOC family #176, HBW family #212, H&M family #225
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf250 status: 77% members ticked
- OH: 4 seen and photographed, first seen in USA 2002
- Finding Hints
| Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher | Phainoptila melanoxantha | .. |
| Gray Silky-flycatcher | Ptiliogonys cinereus | .. |
| Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher | Ptiliogonys caudatus | .. |
| Phainopepla | Phainopepla nitens | .. |
1 Long-tailed Silky-flycatcher, Panama; 2 Phainopepla, USA; 3 Gray Silky-flycatcher, Mexico; 4 Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher, Panama
Family #217
Palmchat (Dulidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Neotropical endemic (Hispaniola)
- IOC family #178, HBW family #208, H&M family #222
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf250 status: 37% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen and photographed, first seen in Dominican Republic 2017
- Finding Hints
| Palmchat | Dulus dominicus | .. |
Palmcaht, Dominican Republic 2017
Family #218
Hylocitrea (Hylocitreidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Australasia endemic (Sulawesy)
- IOC family #179, HBW family #210, H&M family #224 (Hypocolius and Hylocitrea)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf250 status: 25% members ticked
- OH: seen and photographed, first seen in Sulawesi, Indonesia 2023
- Finding Hints
| Hylocitrea | Hylocitrea bonensis | .. |
Hylocitrea, Sulawesi, Indonesia 2023
Family #219
Hypocolius (Hypocoliidae)
- Species: 1
- Distribution: Palearctic endemic
- IOC family #177, HBW family #209, H&M family #224 (Hypocolius and Hylocitrea)
- Passeriformes Family Group: Bombycilloid Oscines
- wf250 status: 43% members ticked
- OH: 1 seen and photographed, first seen in Israel 2011
- Finding Hints
| Hypocolius | Hypocolius ampelinus |
Hypocolius, Israel 2015
