Melanocharitidae: berrypeckers and longbills Callaeidae: New Zealand wattlebirds Notiomystidae: stitchbird Petroicidae: Australian robins Eupetidae: rail-babbler Picathartidae: rockfowl Chaetopidae: rock-jumpers Parvorder Sylviida – previously known as the superfamily Sylviodea Hyliotidae: hyliotas Stenostiridae: fairy flycatchers Paridae: tits, chickadees and titmice Remizidae: penduline tits Panuridae: bearded reedling Alaudidae: larks Nicatoridae: nicators Macrosphenidae: crombecs and African warblers Cisticolidae: cisticolas and allies Superfamily Locustelloidea Acrocephalidae: reed warblers, Grauer's warbler and allies Locustellidae: grassbirds and allies Donacobiidae: black-capped donacobius Bernieridae: Malagasy warblers — Pnoepygidae: wren-babblers Hirundinidae: swallows and martins Superfamily Sylvioidea Pycnonotidae: bulbuls Sylviidae: sylviid babblers Paradoxornithidae: parrotbills and myzornis Zosteropidae: white-eyes Timaliidae: tree babblers Leiothrichidae: laughingthrushes and allies Alcippeidae: Alcippe fulvettas Pellorneidae: ground babblers Superfamily Aegithaloidea Phylloscopidae: leaf-warblers and allies Hyliidae: hylias Aegithalidae: long-tailed tits or bushtits Scotocercidae: streaked scrub warbler Cettiidae: Cettia bush warblers and allies Erythrocercidae: yellow flycatchers Parvorder Muscicapida – previously known as the superfamily Muscicapoidea Superfamily Bombycilloidea Dulidae: palmchat Bombycillidae: waxwings Ptiliogonatidae: silky flycatchers Hylocitreidae: hylocitrea Hypocoliidae: hypocolius Mohoidae: oos Superfamily Muscicapoidea Elachuridae: spotted elachura Cinclidae: dippers Muscicapidae: Old World flycatchers and chats Turdidae: thrushes and allies Buphagidae: oxpeckers Sturnidae: starlings and rhabdornis Mimidae: mockingbirds and thrashers — Regulidae: goldcrests and kinglets Superfamily Certhioidea Tichodromidae: wallcreeper Sittidae: nuthatches Certhiidae: treecreepers Polioptilidae: gnatcatchers Troglodytidae: wrens Parvorder Passerida – previously known as the superfamily Passeroidea Promeropidae: sugarbirds Modulatricidae: dapple-throat and allies Nectariniidae: sunbirds Dicaeidae: flowerpeckers Chloropseidae: leafbirds Irenidae: fairy-bluebirds Peucedramidae: olive warbler Urocynchramidae: Przewalski's finch Ploceidae: weavers Viduidae: indigobirds and whydahs Estrildidae: waxbills, munias and allies Prunellidae: accentors Passeridae: Old World sparrows and snowfinches Motacillidae: wagtails and pipits Fringillidae: finches and euphonias Superfamily Emberizoidea – previously known as the New World nine-primaried oscines Rhodinocichlidae: rosy thrush-tanager Calcariidae: longspurs and snow buntings Emberizidae: buntings Cardinalidae: cardinals Mitrospingidae: mitrospingid tanagers Thraupidae: tanagers and allies Passerellidae: New World sparrows, bush tanagers Parulidae: New World warblers Icteriidae: yellow-breasted chat Icteridae: grackles, New World blackbirds, and New World orioles Calyptophilidae: chat-tanagers Zeledoniidae: wrenthrush Teretistridae: Cuban warblers Nesospingidae: Puerto Rican tanager Spindalidae: spindalises Phaenicophilidae: Hispaniolan tanagers Phylogeny Relationships between living Passeriformes families based on the phylogenetic analysis of Oliveros et al (2019). Some terminals have been renamed to reflect families recognised by the IOC but not in that study. The IOC families Alcippeidae and Teretistridae were not sampled in this study. Explanatory notes References Further reading Supporting information External links Extant Eocene first appearances Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus