When we think of birds generically we are usually thinking of passerines, birds in the songbird / sparrow classification. That is over half of the total number of bird species. It takes its name from the Latin passer, from which comes the Spanish word pájaro. Passer (the actual sparrow) is only one genus of passerines [passeridae].
{The four birds at my feeder typially are cardinal, titmouse, sparrow, and chickadee.}
Corvids is a family that belong to the the passarines, but are not sparrows.
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