Bombycillidae (Waxwings)

Phylogenetic placement: Passeri: Passerides: Muscicapida: Bombycilloidea
Distribution: Eurasia, North and Central America, Carribean
Number of extant genera: 1
Number of extant species: 3

Traditional genus-level classification of extant Bombycillidae following the AviList checklist v2025. (link) The number of subspecies is given in parentheses. Three species were recognised by Spellman et al. (2008), and match those of the BOW Phylogeny Explorer tree v1.6. (link)

Bernieridae

Buphagidae

Passerine families

Individual orders

References

Spellman GM, Cibois A, Moyle RG, Winker K, and Barker FK (2008), Clarifying the systematics of an enigmatic avian lineage: What is a bombycillid?, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 49, 1036-40. (no abstract available) (link) [note: treated all Bombycilla species]