Passerine birds (Passeriformes) comprise over 6000 extant species, exhibiting a near-global distribution and exceptional phenotypic, ecological and behavioural disparity. As a result of their extraordinary taxonomic diversity, the evolutionary history of extant passerines has frequently been the subject of largescale macroevolutionary studies (e.g.,
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