Australaves is a clade of birds,[3] defined in 2012,[4] consisting of the Eufalconimorphae (passerines, parrots and falcons) as well as the Cariamiformes (including seriemas and the extinct "terror birds").

[6] The clade's name, meaning 'southern birds', reflects the group's evolutionary origins in the Southern Hemisphere: passerines and parrots in Australia, and falcons and seriemas in South America.

[4] As in the case of Afroaves, the most basal clades have predatory extant members, suggesting this was the ancestral lifestyle;[7] however, some researchers like Darren Naish are skeptical of this assessment, since some extinct representatives such as the herbivorous Strigogyps led other lifestyles.

[8] Basal parrots and falcons are at any rate vaguely crow-like and probably omnivorous.

[9] Cariamiformes (seriemas) Falconiformes (falcons) Psittaciformes (parrots) Passeriformes (songbirds) Cladogram of Telluraves relationships based on Kuhl et al. (2020) and Braun & Kimball (2021)[2][10]