Bird taxonomy

Passerea is a taxon of neoavian birds that was proposed by Jarvis et al. (2014). Their genomic analysis recovered two major clades within Neoaves, Passerea and Columbea, and concluded that both clades appear to have many ecologically driven convergent traits.

AviList is a global avian checklist created to produce a consensus taxonomy for the birds of the world. It is available online and can be freely downloaded.