Table 1.
Numbers (and proportions) of Australian passerine species and world passerine families with various nest characteristics.
| total | shape |
location |
exposure |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cup | dome | cavity | vegetation | ground | cliff | open | enclosed | ||
| Australian species | 315 | 209 (0.66) | 106 (0.34) | 18 (0.06) | 268 (0.84) | 26 (0.08) | 3 (0.01) | 195 (0.62) | 120 (0.38) |
| world families | 123a | 88 (0.72) | 35 (0.28) | 16 (0.13) | 100 (0.81) | 6 (0.05) | 1 (0.01) | 77 (0.63) | 46 (0.37) |
| more than 95% of members | 76 (0.62) | 23 (0.19) | 10 (0.08) | 87 (0.71) | 3 (0.02) | 1 (0.01) | 66 (0.54) | 36 (0.29) | |
| 50–95% of members | 12 (0.10) | 12 (0.10) | 6 (0.05) | 13 (0.11) | 3 (0.02) | 0 (0.00) | 11 (0.09) | 10 (0.08) | |
aViduidae are brood parasitic and do not build nests, so they are not included in the total number of world families.