Perching Birds Osteology Reference Master List

All have prominent manubrial spine on sternum
Corvids:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrochester/albums/72177720307495481/
Jamaican Crow: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/366a4bbb1-ded7-481a-a08b-dbb9ee913e4f
Sternum: http://www.veterinarypaper.com/pdf/2019/vol4issue2/PartA/4-2-13-708.pdf
Corvus corax:
https://virtual.imnh.iri.isu.edu/Osteo/View/Crow/634
https://virtual.imnh.iri.isu.edu/Osteo/View/Common_Raven_or_Northern_Raven/583
Sternum:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrochester/16078470428/in/gallery-66337245@N00-72157678747666368/
Pelvis:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrochester/16240019246/in/gallery-66337245@N00-72157678747666368/
Hooded Crow:
http://www.ijvets.com/pdf-files/Volume-6-no-2-2017/96-103.pdf

Common grackle:
http://www.clemson.edu/science/departments/biosci/research/museum/exhibit8/index.html

White wagtail
http://www.birdresearch.dk/unilang/raritet/one_leg/one_leg.htm

Turdus:
American Robin:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f9d39a32-2d18-4fd3-ba86-9208821e4d7b
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/39a628e8e-49de-4e54-acde-c4f5be3a60d2

Sturnella neglecta neglecta
https://arctos.database.museum/guid/UWYMV:Bird:4251

Wren, Robin, Accentor, Redstart:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrochester/22580964173/in/gallery-66337245@N00-72157678747666368/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrochester/22546569994/in/album-72157651043869057/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrochester/16956535152/in/album-72157651043869057/

Helmeted manakin:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d17c15c4-a934-42bd-b569-d6ae56d9e7ab
Buff-winged cinclodes:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/330511efb-f06d-450c-8864-cdb25dc2549d
African broadbill:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3353b648c-2528-4a7f-9e42-ffb751008a04

Lark, Pipit, Wagtails:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jrochester/22546569994/in/album-72157651043869057/

Purple Martin, Amerian Crow, Brown Thrasher, American Robin, Western Meadowlark, Cardinal:
Sternum:
https://i.imgur.com/t69oxkd.jpg
Pelvis:
https://i.imgur.com/4eW7xMp.jpg

Cave swallow carpometacarpus:
https://www.utep.edu/leb/Pleistnm/taxaAves/hirundinidae.htm

Icteridae:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-new-eocene-Chascacocolius-like-mousebird-(Aves%3A-a-Mayr/828a6ae08bbdcacb0c3d7d4b3f6a4f7b3af7b1d6/figure/0
(Chascacocolius cacicirostris, Scarlet-headed Blackbird, Amblyra Cacique, Cacicus uropygialis, Coliidae)

Melanopareia elegans:
https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-132/issue-4/AUK-15-74.1/The-changing-diversity-and-distribution-of-dry-forest-passerine-birds/10.1642/AUK-15-74.1.full#i0004-8038-132-4-836-f01

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Bird-bones-obtained-from-CPV-Top-Non-Passeriformes-from-Cova-des-Pas-de-Vallgornera_fig3_262493886

House sparrow:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Sternum-of-sparrow-showing-A-Yshaped-rostrum-B-craniolateral-process-C-caudolateral_fig2_320306521

thrasher vs mocking bird vs catbird
https://twitter.com/archaeomather/status/930649046355791872

Posted on December 11, 2019 05:40 PM by lizardking lizardking

Observations

Photos / Sounds

What

New World Warblers (Family Parulidae)

Observer

lizardking

Date

November 19, 2019 04:02 PM EST

Photos / Sounds

What

Perching Birds (Order Passeriformes)

Observer

lizardking

Date

January 18, 2020 04:51 PM EST

Description

Carpometacarpus

Photos / Sounds

What

Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris)

Observer

lizardking

Date

March 22, 2020 09:26 PM EDT

Description

Location accurate. Specimen collected, more photos to come.
Update 4/15/20:
Pictures of cleaned skeleton added. Last two pictures are of the remaining sclerotic eye ring. Bill sheaths are still in progress.

Photos / Sounds

What

Perching Birds (Order Passeriformes)

Observer

lizardking

Date

June 29, 2020 02:04 PM EDT

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