The Passeriformes, or perching birds, represent almost two-thirds of all bird species. Individual families are treated separately (Passerine families). The family-level relationships are shown in the following two timetrees: 

Family-level timetree of extant Passeriformes based on Oliveros et al. (2019), Kuhl et al. (2021) and Stiller at al. (2024), with the distribution of each taxon being indicated by the colour-code used throughout this website (Distribution code). In contrast to their treament, however, Lamproliidae are treated here as a separate family rather than a subfamily of Rhipiduridae. Passeri and Tyranni together constitite the Eupasseres. Divergence times follow Stiller et al. (2024). Family-level relationships within Tyranni have been corroborated by the study of Harvey et al. (2020). The phylogenetic placement of Eurocephalus (Eurocephalidae) is corroborated by McCullough et al (2023).

Family-level timetree of extant Passerides based on Oliveros et al. (2019), Kuhl et al. (2021), McCullough et al. (2022), and Stiller et al. (2024; new placement of Cinclidae and Urocynchramidae), with the distribution of each taxon being indicated by the colour-code used throughout this website (Distribution code). The phylogenetic relationships among Sylvioidea have been detailed by Cai et al. (2019). Compared to Oliveros et al. (2019), some taxa have been upgraded to family status: Modulatricidae, Cettiidae, Erythrocercidae, Chaetopidae, and Picathartidae. Divergence times follow Stiller et al. (2024).

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DuBay SG, and Witt CC (2012), An improved phylogeny of the Andean tit-tyrants (Aves: Tyrannidae): more characters trump sophisticated analyses, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 64, 285-296. (abstract) 

Ericson PGP, Christidis L, Irestedt M, and Norman JA (2002), Systematic affinities of the lyrebirds (Passeriformes: Menura), with a novel classification of the major groups of passerine birds, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 25, 53-62. (pdf)

Ericson PGP, and Johansson US (2003), Phylogeny of Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 29, 126-138. (abstract) 

Ericson PGP, Zuccon D, Ohlson JI, Johansson US, Alvarenga A, and Prum RO (2006), Higher-level phylogeny and morphological evolution of tyrant flycatchers, cotingas, manakins and their allies (Aves: Tyrannida), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 40, 471-483. (abstract)

Ericson PGP, Klopfstein S, Irestedt M, Nguyen JMT, and Nylander JAA (2014), Dating the diversification of the major lineages of Passeriformes (Aves), BMC Evol. Biol. 14, e:8. (free pdf)

Ericson PGP, Irestedt M, Nylander JAA, Christidis L, Joseph L, and Qu Y (2020), Parallel evolution of bower-building behavior in two groups of bowerbirds suggested by phylogenomics, Syst. Biol. 69, 820-829. (pdf) 

Escalante P, Márquez-Valdelamar L, de la Torre P, Laclette JP, and Klicka J (2009), Evolutionary history of a prominent North American warbler clade: The Oporornis-Geothlypis complex, Mol. Phylogenet, Evol. 53, 668-678. (abstract) 

Everson KM, McLaughlin JF, Cato IA, Evans MM, Gastaldi AR, Mills KK, Shink KG, Wilbur SM, and Winker K (2019), Speciation, gene flow, and seasonal migration in Catharus thrushes (Aves: Turdidae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 139, e:106564. (abstract) 

Ewen JG, Flux I, and Ericson PGP (2006), Systematic affinities of two enigmatic New Zealand passerines of high conservation priority, the hihi or stitchbird Notiomystis cincta and the kokako Callaeas cinerea, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 40, 281-284. (abstract) 

Fabre PH, Irestedt M, Fjeldså J, Bristol R, Groombridge JJ, Irham M, and Jønsson KA (2012), Dynamic colonization exchanges between continents and islands drive diversification in paradise-flycatchers (Terpsiphone, Monarchidae), J, Biogeogr. 39, 1900-18. (abstract) 

Farrington HL, Lawson LP, Clark CM, and Petren K (2014), The evolutionary history of Darwin‘s Finches: speciation, gene flow, and introgression in a fragmented landscape, Evolution 68, 2932-44. (pdf)

Fjeldså J, Zuccon D, Irestedt M, Johansson US, and Ericson PGP (2003), Sapayoa aenigma: a New World representative of ‘Old World suboscines’, Proc. R. Soc. B (Suppl.) 270, S238-S241. (pdf)

Fjeldså J, Irestedt M, and Ericson PGP (2005), Molecular data reveal some major adaptational shifts in the early evolution of the most diverse avian family, the Furnariidae, J. Ornithol. 146, 1-13. (abstract) 

Fjeldså J, Irestedt M, Ericson PGP, and Zuccon D (2010), The Cinnamon Ibon Hypocryptadius cinnamomeus is a forest canopy sparrow, Ibis 152, 747-760. (abstract)

Fjeldså J, Ohlson JI, Batalha Filho H, Ericson PGP, and Irestedt M (2018), Rapid expansion and diversification into new niche space by fluvicoline flycatchers, J. Avian Biol. 49, e:01661. (free reading)

Fregin S, Haase M, and Olsson U, and Alström P (2009), Multi-locus phylogeny of the family Acrocephalidae (Aves: Passeriformes) – The traditional taxonomy overthrown, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 52, 866-878. (abstract)

Fregin S, Haase M, Olsson U, and Alström P (2012), New insights into family relationships within the avian superfamily Sylvioidea (Passeriformes) based on seven molecular markers, BMC Evol. Biol. 12, e:157. (free pdf)

Fuchs J, Fjeldså J, Bowie RCK, Voelker G, and Pasquet E (2006), The African warbler genus Hyliota as a lost lineage in the Oscine songbird tree: Molecular support for an African origin of the Passerida, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 39, 186-197. (abstract)

Fuchs J, Pasquet E, Couloux A, Fjeldså J, and Bowie RCK (2009), A new Indo-Malayan member of the Stenostiridae (Aves: Passeriformes) revealed by multilocus sequence data: biogeographical implications for a morphologically diverse clade of flycatchers, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 53, 384-393. (abstract)

Fuchs J, Pasquet E, Stuart BL, Woxvold IA, Duckworth JW, and Bowie RCK (2018), Phylogenetic affinities of the enigmatic Bare-faced Bulbul Pycnonotus hualon with description of a new genus, Ibis 160, 659-665. (abstract) 

Gardner JL, Trueman JWH, Ebert D, Joseph L, and Magrath RD  (2010), Phylogeny and evolution of the Meliphagoidea, the largest radiation of Australasian songbirds, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 55, 1087-1102. (abstract)

Garg KM, Yin Gwee C, Chattopadhyay B, Ng NS, Prawiradilaga DM, David G, Fuchs J, Le Manh H, Martinez J, Olsson U, Tan Tu V, Chhin S, Alström P, Lei F, and Rheindt FE (2024), When colors mislead: genomics and bioacoustics prompt re-classification of Asian flycatcher radiation (Aves: Niltavinae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 193, e:107999. (abstract)

Gaudin J, Raty L, and Sangster G (2021a), The correct name of the antpitta clade, Bull. B.O.C. 141, 363-365. (pdf) 

Gaudin J, Sangster G, and Bruce MD (2021b), A family name for the Crested Shrikejay Platylophus galericulatus, Bull. B.O.C. 141, 366-368. (free pdf)

Gelang M, Cibois A, Pasquet E, Olsson U, Alström P, and Ericson PGP (2009), Phylogeny of babblers (Aves: Passeriformes): major lineages, family limits and classification, Zool. Scr. 38, 225-236. (abstract) 

Ghorbani F, Aliabadian M, Olsson U, Donald PF, Khan AA, and Alström P (2019a), Mitochondrial phylogeography of the genus Eremophila confirms underestimated species diversity in the Palearctic, J. Ornithol. 161, 297-312. (abstract) 

Ghorbani F, Aliabadian M, Zhang R, Irestedt M, Hao Y, Sundev G, Lei F, Ma M, Olsson U, and Alström P (2019b), Densely sampled phylogenetic analyses of the Lesser Short-toed Lark (Alaudala rufescens) – Sand Lark (A. raytal) species complex (Aves, Passeriformes) reveal cryptic diversity, Zool. Scr. 49, 427-439. (pdf)

Gutiérrez-Zuluaga AM, González-Quevedo C, Oswald JA, Terrill RS, Pérez-Emán JL, and Parra JL (2021), Genetic data and niche differences suggest that disjunct populations of Diglossa brunneiventris are not sister taxa, Auk 138, 1-14. (free pdf) 

Gwee CY, Garg KM, Chattopadhyay B, Sadanandan KR, Prawiradilaga DM, Irestedt M, Lei F, Bloch LM, Lee JG, Irham M, Haryoko T, Soh MC, Peh KSH, Rowe KM, Ferasyi TR, Wu S, Wogan GO, Bowie RC, and Rheindt FE (2020), Phylogenomics of white-eyes, a ‘great speciator’, reveals Indonesian archipelago as the center of lineage diversity, eLife 9, e:62765. (free pdf)

Harvey MG, Bravo GA, Claramunt S, Cuervo AM, Derryberry GE, Battilana J, Seeholzer GF, McKay JS, O'Meara BC, Faircloth BC, Edwards SV, Perez-Eman J, Moyle RG, Sheldon FH, Aleixo A, Smith BT, Chesser RT, Silveira LF, Cracraft J, Brumfield RT, and Derryberry EP (2020), The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot, Science 370, 1343-48. (pdf) (hi-res tree) 

Hermansen JS, Sæther SA, Elgvin TO, Borge T, Hjelle E, and Sætre GP (2011), Hybrid speciation in sparrows I: phenotypic intermediacy, genetic admixture and barriers to gene flow, Mol. Ecol 20, 3812-22. (abstract) 

Hooper DM, Olsson U, and Alström P (2016), The Rusty-tailed Flycatcher (Muscicapa ruficauda; Aves: Muscicapidae) is a member of the genus Fidecula, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 102, 56-61. (abstract)

Hosner PA, and Moyle RG (2012), A molecular phylogeny of black-tyrants (Tyrannidae: Knipolegus) reveals strong geographic patterns and homoplasy in plumage and display behavior, Auk 129, 156-167. (free pdf) 

Illera JC, Richardson DS, Helm B, Atienza JC, and Emerson BC (2008), Phylogenetic relationships, biogeography and speciation in the avian genus Saxicola, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 48, 1145-54. (abstract)

Imfeld TS, Barker FK, Vázquez-Miranda H, Chaves JA, Escalante P, Spellman GM, and Klicka J (2024), Diversification and dispersal in the Americas revealed by new phylogenies of the wrens and allies (Passeriformes: Certhioidea), Ornithology 141, (abstract) 

Irestedt M, Fjeldså J, Johansson US, and Ericson PGP (2002), Systematic relationships and biogeography of the tracheophone suboscines (Aves: Passeriformes), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 23, 499-512. (abstract)

Irestedt M, Fjeldså J, Nylander JAA, and Ericson PGP (2004a), Phylogenetic relationships of typical antbirds (Thamnophilidae) and test of incongruence based on Bayes factors, BMC Evol. Biol. 4, e:23. (free pdf) 

Irestedt M, Fjeldså J, and Ericson PGP (2004b), Phylogenetic relationships of woodcreepers (Aves: Dendrocolaptinae) – incongruence between molecular and morphological data, J. Avian Biol. 35, 280-288. (pdf)

Irestedt M, Ohlson JI, Zuccon D, Källersjö M, and Ericson PGP (2006), Nuclear DNA from old collections of avian study skins reveals the evolutionary history of the New World suboscines (Aves, Passeriformes), Zool. Scr. 35, 567-580. (abstract) 

Irestedt M, Batalha-Filho H, Ericson PGP, Christidis L, and Schodde R (2017), Phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomic consequences in a bird-of-paradise species complex, Lophorina–Priloris (Aves: Paradisaeidae), Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 181, 439-470. (free pdf)

Isler ML, Bravo GA, and Brumfield RT (2013), Taxonomic revision of Myrmeciza (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae) into 12 genera based on phylogenetic, morphological, behavioral, and ecological data, Zootaxa 3717, 469-497. (free pdf)

Isler ML, Bravo GA, and Brumfield RT (2014), Systematics of the obligate ant-following clade of antbirds (Aves: Passeriformes: Thamnophilidae), Wilson J. Ornithol. 126, 635-648. (pdf)

Isler ML, Chesser RT, Robbins MB, Cuervo AM, Cadena CD, and Hosner PA (2020), Taxonomic evaluation of the Grallaria rufula (Rufous Antpitta) complex (Aves: Passeriformes: Grallariidae) distinguishes sixteen species, Zootaxa 4817, 1-74. (abstract)

Jha A, Seneviratne S, Prayag HS, and Vasudevan K (2021), Phylogeny identifies multiple colonisation events and Miocene aridification as drivers of South Asian bulbul (Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae) diversification, Org. Divers. Evol. 21, 783-794. (abstract)

Jiang Z, Zang W, Ericson PGP, Song G, Wu S, Feng S, Drovetski SV, Liu G, Zhang D, Saitoh T, Alström P, Edwards SV, Lei F, and Qu Y (2024), Gene flow and an anomaly zone complicate phylogenomic inference in a rapidly radiated avian family (Prunellidae), BMC Biol. 22, e:49. (free pdf) 

Johansson US, Irestedt M, Parsons TJ, and Ericson PGP (2002), Basal phylogeny of the Tyrannoidea based on comparisons of cytochrome b and exons of nuclear c-myc and RAG-1genes, Auk 119, 984-995. (pdf) 

Johansson US, Alström P, Olsson U, Ericson PGP, Sundberg P, and Price TD (2007a), Build-up of the Himalayan avifauna through immigration: a biogeographical analysis of the Phylloscopus and Seicercus warblers, Evolution 61, 324-333. (free pdf) 

Johansson US, Fjeldså J, Lokugalappatti LGS, and Bowie RCK (2007b), A nuclear DNA phylogeny and proposed taxonomic revision of African greenbuls (Aves, Passeriformes, Pycnonotidae), Zool. Scr. 36, 417-437. (abstract)

Johansson US, Fjeldså J, and Bowie RCK (2008), Phylogenetic relationships within Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes): a review and a new molecular phylogeny based on three nuclear intron markers, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 48, 858-876. (free pdf) 

Johansson US, Ekman J, Bowie RCK, Halvarsson P, Ohlson JI, Price TD, and Ericson PGP (2013), A complete multilocus species phylogeny of the tits and chickadees (Aves: Paridae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 69, 852-860. (abstract) 

Johnson AE, Mitchell JS, and Brown MB (2017), Convergent evolution in social swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae), Ecol. Evol. 7, 550-560. (pdf)

Jønsson KA, and Fjeldså J (2006), A phylogenetic supertree of oscine passerine birds (Aves: Passeri), Zool. Scr. 35, 149-186. (abstract)

Jønsson KA, Bowie RCK, Moyle RG, Irestedt M, Christidis L, Norman JA, and Fjeldså J (2010), Phylogeny and biogeography of Oriolidae (Aves: Passeriformes), Ecography 33, 232-241. (pdf)

Jønsson KA, Fabre PH, Ricklefs RE, and Fjeldså J (2011), Major global radiation of corvoid birds originated in the proto-Papuan archipelago, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 108, 2328-33. (pdf) 

Jonsson KA, Delhey K, Sangster G, Ericson PGP, and Irestedt M (2016a), The evolution of mimicry of friarbirds by orioles (Aves: Passeriformes) in Australo-Pacific archipelagos, Proc. R. Soc. B 283, e:20160409. (pdf)

Jønsson KA, Fabre PH, Kennedy JD, Holt BG, Borregaard MK, Rahbek C, and Fjeldså J (2016b), A supermatrix phylogeny of corvoid passerine birds (Aves: Corvides), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 94, 87-94. (abstract)

Jønsson KA, Blom MPK, Marki PZ, Joseph L, Sangster G, Ericson PGP, and Irestedt M (2019), Complete subspecies-level phylogeny of the Oriolidae (Aves: Passeriformes): out of Australasia and return, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 137, 200-209. (abstract)

Jordan EA, Tello JG, Benítez Saldívar MJ, and Areta JI (2021), Molecular phylogenetics of Doraditos (Aves, Pseudocolopteryx): Evolution of cryptic species, vocal and mechanical sounds, Zool. Scr. 50, 173-192. (abstract)

Joseph L, Toon A, Nyári AS, Longmore NW, Rowe KMC, Haryoko T, Trueman J, and Gardner JL (2014), A new synthesis of the molecular systematics and biogeography of honeyeaters (Passeriformes: Meliphagidae) highlights biogeographical and ecological complexity of a spectacular avian radiation, Zool. Scr. 43, 235-248. (abstract) 

Kirwan GM, David N, Gregory SMS, Jobling JA, Steinheimer FD, and Renzo Rocha Brito G (2016), The mistaken manakin: a new genus-group name for Parus pipra Linnaeus, 1758 (Aves: Passeriformes: Pipridae), Zootaxa 4121, 89-94. (abstract) [see addendum David et al., 2017, abstract]

Klicka J, Voelker G, and Spellman GM (2005), A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the “true thrushes” (Aves: Turdinae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 34, 486-500. (abstract) 

Klicka J, Burns K, and Spellman GM (2007), Defining a monophyletic Cardinalini: a molecular perspective, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 45, 1014-32. (abstract)

Klicka J, Barker FK, Burns KJ, Lanyon SM, Lovette IJ, Chaves JA, and Bryson RW (2014), A comprehensive multilocus assessment of sparrow (Aves: Passerellidae) relationships, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 77, 177-182. (abstract)

Klein NK, Burns KJ, Hackett SJ, and Griffiths CS (2004), Molecular phylogenetic relationships among the wood warblers (Parulidae) and historical biogeography in the Caribbean basin, J. Caribbean Ornithol. Special issue, 3-17. (pdf)

Kuhl H, Frankl-Vilches C, Bakker A, Mayr G, Nikolaus G, Boerno ST, Klages S, Timmermann B, and Gahr M (2021), An unbiased molecular approach using 3'UTRs resolves the avian family-level tree of life, Mol. Biol. Evol. 38, 108-127. (free pdf)

Lane DF, Aponte Justiniano MA, Terrill RS, Rheindt FE, Klicka LB, Rosenberg GH, Schmitt JC, and Burns KJ (2021), A new genus and species of tanager (Passeriformes, Thraupidae) from the lower Yungas of western Bolivia and southern Peru, Auk 138, e:ukab059. (free pdf)

Leite RN, Kimball RT, Braun EL, Derryberry EP, Hosner PA, Derryberry GE, Anciães M, McKay JS, Aleixo A, Ribas CC, Brumfield RT, and Cracraft J (2021), Phylogenomics of manakins (Aves: Pipridae) using alternative locus filtering strategies based on informativeness, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 155, e:107013. (abstract)

Lerner HR, Meyer M, James HF, Hofreiter M, and Fleischer RC (2011), Multilocus resolution of phylogeny and timescale in the extant adaptive radiation of Hawaiian Honeycreepers, Curr. Biol. 21, 1-7. (pdf) 

Lijtmaer DA, Sharpe NMM, Tubaro PL, and Lougheed SC (2004), Molecular phylogenetics and diversification of the genus Sporophila (Aves: Passeriformes), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 33, 562-579. (abstract) 

Lim HC, Zou F, Taylor SS, Marks BD, Moyle RG, Voelker G, and Sheldon FH (2010), Phylogeny of magpie-robins and shamas (Aves: Turdidae: Copsychus and Trichixos): implications for island biogeography of Southeast Asia, J. Biogeogr. 37, 1894-1906. (abstract) 

Lopes LE, Chaves AV, Mendes de Aquino M, Silveira LF, and Rodrigues dos Santos F (2017), The striking polyphyly of Suiriri Convergent evolution and social mimicry in two cryptic Neotropical birds, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res. 56, 270-279. (abstract)

Lovette IJ, and Rubenstein DR (2007), A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the starlings (Aves: Sturnidae) and mockingbirds (Aves: Mimidae): Congruent mtDNA and nuclear trees for a cosmopolitan avian radiation, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 44, 1031-56. (abstract)

Lovette IJ, Pérez-Emán JL, Sullivan JP, Banks RC, Fiorentino I, Córdoba-Córdoba S, Echeverry-Galvis M, Barker FK, Burns KJ, Klicka J, Lanyon SM, and Bermingham E (2010), A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 57, 753-770. (abstract)

Lubbe P, Rawlence NJ, Kardailsky O, Robertson BC, Day R, Knapp M, and Dussex N (2022), Mitogenomes resolve the phylogeography and divergence times within the endemic New Zealand Callaeidae (Aves: Passerida), Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 196, 1451-63. (free pdf)

Mackiewicz P, Urantówka AD, Kroczak A, and Mackiewicz D (2019), Resolving phylogenetic relationships within Passeriformes based on mitochondrial genes and inferring the evolution of their mitogenomes in terms of duplications, Genome Biol. Evol. 11, 2824-49. (pdf) 

Manthey JD, Campillo LC, Burns KJ, and Moyle RG (2016), Comparison of target-capture and restriction-site associated DNA sequencing for phylogenomics: a test in cardinalid tanagers (Aves, genus: Piranga), Syst. Biol. 65, 640-650. (free pdf)

Marki PZ, Jonsson KA, Irestedt M, Nguyen JMT, Rahbek C, and Fjeldsa J (2017), Supermatrix phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian Meliphagides radiation (Aves: Passeriformes), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 107, 516-529. (abstract) 

Marki PZ, Fjeldså J, Irestedt M, and Jonsson KA (2018), Molecular phylogenetics and species limits in a cryptically coloured radiation of Australo-Papuan passerine birds (Pachycephalidae: Colluricincla), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 124, 100-105. (abstract)

Martins FC, Cox SC, Irestedt M, Prŷs-Jones RP, and Day JJ (2020), A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Afrotropical white-eyes (Aves: Zosteropidae) highlights prior underestimation of mainland diversity and complex colonisation history, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 149, e:106843. (abstract) 

Mata H, Fontana CS, Maurício GN, Bornschein MR, Ferreira de Vasconcelos M, and Bonatto Sl (2009), Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the eastern Tapaculos (Aves: Rhinocryptidae: Scytalopus, Eleoscytalopus): Cryptic diversification in Brazilian Atlantic Forest, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 53, 450-462. (free reading)

McCullough JM, Joseph L, Moyle RG, and Andersen MJ (2019), Ultraconserved elements put the final nail in the coffin of traditional use of the genus Meliphaga (Aves: Meliphagidae), Zool. Scr. 48, 411-418. (abstract)

McCullough JM, Oliveros CH, Benz BW, Zenil-Ferguson R, Cracraft J, Moyle RG, and Andersen MJ (2022), Wallacean and Melanesian Islands promote higher rates of diversification within the global passerine radiation Corvides, Syst. Biol. 71, 1423-39. (free pdf)

McCullough JM, Hruska JP,  Oliveros CH, Moyle RG, and Andersen MJ (2023), Ultraconserved elements support the elevation of a new avian family, Eurocephalidae, the white-crowned shrikes, Ornithology 140, e:ukad025. (free pdf) 

McKay BD, Barker FK, Mays HL, Doucet SM, and Hill GE (2010), A molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the manakins (Aves: Pipridae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 55, 733-737. (abstract)

Miyaki Y, and Piacentini VQ (2024), Taxonomic revision of the Scaled Antbird Drymophila squamata (Aves: Thamnophilidae) reveals a new and critically endangered taxon from northeastern Brazil, Zootaxa 5410, 573-585. (abstract)

Milá B, Bruxaux J, Friis G, Sam K, Ashari H, and Thébaud C (2021), A new, undescribed species of Melanocharis berrybecker from western New Guinea and the evolutionary history of the family Melanocharitidae, Ibis 163, 1310-29. (pdf)

Mitchell KJ, Hugall AF, Heiniger H, Joseph L, and Oliver PM (2021), Disparate origins for endemic bird taxa from the “Gondwana Rainforests” of Central Eastern Australia, Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 134, 1-27. (pdf) 

Moncrieff AE, Faircloth BC, and Brumfield RT (2022), Systematics of Lepidothrix manakins (Aves: Passeriformes: Pipridae) using RADcap markers, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 173, e:107525. (pdf)

Moyle RG, and Marks BD (2006), Phylogenetic relationships of the bulbuls (Aves: Pycnonotidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence data, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol, 40, 687-695. (abstract)

Moyle RG, Chesser T, Prum RO, Schikler P, and Cracraft J (2006), Phylogeny and evolutionary history of Old World suboscine birds (Aves: Eurylaimides), Am. Mus. Novit. 3544, 1-22. (pdf) 

Moyle RG, Slikas B, Whittingham LA, Winkler DW, and Sheldon FH (2008), DNA sequence assessment of phylogenetic relationships among New World martins (Hirundinidae: Progne), Wilson J. Ornithol. 120, 683-691. (abstract)

Moyle RG, Chesser RT, Brumfield RT, Tello JG, Marchese DJ, and Cracraft J (2009), Phylogeny and phylogenetic classification of the antbirds, ovenbirds, woodcreepers, and allies (Aves: Passeriformes: infraorder Furnariides), Cladistics 25, 386-405. (pdf) 

Moyle RG, Andersen MJ, Oliveros CH, Steinheimer FD, and Reddy S (2012), Phylogeny and biogeography of the core babblers (Aves: Timaliidae), Syst, Biol. 61, 631-651. (free pdf)

Moyle RG, Oliveros CH, Andersen MJ, Hosner PA, Benz BW, Manthey JD, Travers SL, Brown RM, and Faircloth BC (2016), Tectonic collision and uplift of Wallacea triggered the global songbird radiation, Nat. Commun. 7, e:12709. (free pdf) 

Musher LJ, and Cracraft J (2017), Phylogenomics and species delimitation of a complex radiation of Neotropical suboscine birds (Pachyrhamphus), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 118, 204-221. (abstract)

Nagy J, Végvári Z, and Varga Z (2009), Phylogeny, migration and life history: filling the gaps in the origin and biogeography of the Turdus thrushes, J. Ornithol. 160, 529-543. (free pdf)

Nguembock B, Fjeldså J, Tillier A, and Pasquet E (2007), A phylogeny for the Cisticolidae (Aves: Passeriformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data, and a re-interpretation of an unique nest-building specialization, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 42, 272-286. (abstract) 

Nguembock B, Fjeldså J, Cruaud C, and Pasquet E (2008), Molecular phylogenetic analysis of all members of the genus Elminia confirms their presence within the Stenostiridae clade, Zool. Scr. 37, 591-602. (abstract)

Nguembock B, Fjeldså J, Couloux A, and Pasquet E (2009), Molecular phylogeny of Carduelinae (Aves, Passeriformes, Fringillidae) proves polyphyletic origin of the genera Serinus and Carduelis and suggests redefined generic limits, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 51, 169-181. (abstract)

Nguembock B, Cruaud C, and Denys C (2012), A large evaluation of passerine cisticolids (Aves: Passeriformes): more about their phylogeny and diversification, Open Ornithol. J. 5, 42-56. (pdf)

Njabo KY, Bowie RCK, and Sorenson MD (2008), Phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomy of the African wattle-eyes (Aves: Passeriformes: Platysteiridae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 48, 136-149. (abstract)

Nylander JAA, Olsson U, Alström P, and Sanmartín I (2008), Accounting for phylogenetic uncertainty in biogeography: a Bayesian approach to dispersal-vicariance analysis of the thrushes (Aves: Turdus), Syst. Biol. 57, 257-268. (free pdf)

Ohlson JI, Prum RO, Ericson PGP (2007), A molecular phylogeny of the cotingas (Aves: Cotingidae), Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 42, 25-37. (abstract)

Ohlson J, Fjeldså J, and Ericson PGP (2008), Tyrant flycatchers coming out in the open: phylogeny and ecological radiation of Tyrannidae (Aves, Passeriformes), Zool. Scr. 37, 315-335. (pdf) 

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