Psittacopasseres

Psittacopasseres Temporal range: Early Ma[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Possibly an earlier origin based on molecular clock[2]
House sparrow, Passer domesticus
Grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Clade:	Eufalconimorphae
Clade:	Psittacopasseres Suh et al., 2011
Subtaxa
†Vastanavidae Psittacimorphae Huxley, 1867 ?†Messelasturidae ?†Halcyornithidae † Quercypsittidae Psittaciformes Passerimorphae Sibley et al., 1988 †Psittacopedidae Parapasseres Mayr, 2015 †Zygodactylidae Passeriformes
Synonyms
Psittacopasserae Suh et al., 2011

Psittacopasseres is a

Passerines are renowned as songbirds (technically this word refers to a clade of passerines), and parrots share a capacity for vocal learning. Thus it is possible that vocal learning, and the corresponding variety of song, was present in a psittacopasseran ancestor.^[6]

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