bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

order Passeriformes, Passeriformes - largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres

jenny wren, wren - and of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects

genus Troglodytes, Troglodytes - type genus of the Troglodytidae

Cistothorus, genus Cistothorus - marsh wrens

genus Salpinctes, Salpinctes - a genus of Troglodytidae

genus Thryothorus, Thryothorus - Carolina wrens

Campylorhynchus, genus Campylorhynchus, genus Heleodytes, Heleodytes - alternative classifications for the cactus wrens