Rimrock's seeds also make an excellent food for game birds like mourning dove and valley quail or for songbirds such as green-tailed towhee. |
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Many small songbirds such as warblers, thrushes, and tanagers migrate at night. |
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For a minute or two there is nothing but the twitter of indigenous songbirds and the occasional distant laughter of fellow lovers of the game. |
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The precise navigation of birds has been studied most extensively in migratory songbirds and the homing pigeon. |
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Squirrels, snowshoe hares, grouse, corvids, woodpeckers, and other medium to large songbirds are all potential prey of the goshawk. |
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But the physical part of the syrinx in small songbirds is kind of similar from one bird to the next. |
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One of the chief roles of calls among songbirds is to find mates, and that takes me back to the topic of sympatric speciation. |
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The music was as loud as a hundred thousand songbirds piping in the spring breeze. |
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Western ragweed provides forage for deer and the fruits are an important food source for upland game birds, wild turkeys and songbirds. |
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Small songbirds often mob them, and imitating the call of a Northern Pygmy-Owl will often bring songbirds close in for observation. |
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Young himself appears to favor not the lofty melodies of tradition's songbirds but the crows' familiar caw caw. |
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Experimenters have established the use of a time-compensated sun-compass by homing pigeons and diurnally migrating songbirds. |
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She smiled wryly to herself, thinking that perhaps he, like the local songbirds and crows, had flown south to avoid the oncoming winter. |
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Black bears and forest interior songbirds need large tracts of forested land, and most of that habitat in the region has disappeared. |
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And I can see monarchs, painted ladies, tiger swallowtails, and listen to the songbirds. |
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But that life had still been familiar and reassuring, like the quiet roar of the passing cars and the sweet melody of the songbirds in the trees. |
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The mature forest along Mattawoman is home to the barred owl and vibrantly colored songbirds. |
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With the beautiful sound of songbirds singing in the tree beside our room, the gentle voices awoke Andrea from her sleep beside me. |
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He said the proliferation of Corvids birds like grey crows, magpies and rooks could be directly linked to the decline in songbirds in the area. |
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Our target species these past weeks were not raptors, waders, or waterfowl, but were, in fact, songbirds, specifically warblers. |
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Every morning and evening songbirds gave us a glorious symphonic performance rich in harmony, melody and a few jazzy solos. |
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Osprey, bald eagles, hawks, water ouzels, heron, and a variety of songbirds are seen. |
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It was the voices of a thousand songbirds, of waves lapping against the shore, and of a pack of wolves, mourning the loss of their leader. |
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To achieve this coordination, songbirds must open and close their beaks in register with the acoustic frequency of the sound being produced. |
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Spring is when many songbirds are most active, busy competing for mates, establishing breeding pairs, setting up territories. |
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Such songbirds were considered the most elegant and refined of pets, a living reference to traditional Chinese art and poetry. |
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Migratory songbirds play an important role in their environment and can for example be important disease vectors. |
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Rothstein said that since most songbirds only sing, he suspects the cowbirds learned to sing before they started to dance. |
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All extant European songbirds belong to the oscines, which are assumed to have arisen on the Australian continental plate. |
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And kinglets are one of the smallest songbirds, weighing in at around 6 or 7 grams, or the same weight as an American nickel and a dime. |
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Choose annuals with abundant seeds, especially those in the sunflower family, to lure songbirds such as goldfinches and house finches. |
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Within Myrtle Grove, the forest along Mattawoman Creek is home to the barred owl, various songbirds, wood ducks, and other waterfowl. |
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The island also attracts a variety of wading birds such as herons and egrets and many songbirds. |
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Parallels between human and songbird phonological development have led to the use of songbirds as a model for speech development in humans. |
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Pygmy Nuthatches are one of only a few cooperatively breeding songbirds in North America. |
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Breeding productivity for riparian associated songbirds are at levels high enough to maintain viable populations. |
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Rose hips are a winter food source for game birds and songbirds, to whom they are available when preferred foods are covered with snow. |
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Choosing extensively forested landscapes should lead to reduced levels of nest predation and brood parasitism for songbirds. |
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No songbirds to tangle in the hedges, in shrubs, up above your head in the crowns of cypress and in the branches of chestnut trees, plane trees. |
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Coffee is grown under a canopy of shade trees, preserving ecosystems that are home to migratory songbirds. |
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Montezuma offers a much greater diversity of birds, including various swallows, sparrows, and songbirds not mentioned here. |
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Meanwhile, deer are eating all the trees, reinvigorated sparrowhawks are devouring all the songbirds and smallholdings are going out of business. |
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The berries hang on into early spring unless devoured by songbirds, bobwhite, deer, squirrels, or wild turkey. |
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The songbirds had returned, but their calls sounded ever so plaintive and piteous. |
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Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south. |
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The sweet nut within the acorns is coveted by songbirds, ground birds, small mammals like squirrels and chipmunks, and even deer. |
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In such trees the oscine songbirds were separated from suboscines, and they are usually the first avian branch. |
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You could hear the songbirds singing in the tamaracks and catch glimpses of them hopping from one branch to another. |
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Glide past eagles, songbirds and wetland waders on the rocky banks of the Murchison River, in Kalbarri National Park in the north. |
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An innate predisposition isn't enough for oscine songbirds to learn their repertoire, Pepperberg said. |
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Swamps are also home to a great diversity of spring songbirds, including vireos, flycatchers, thrushes and warblers. |
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In northern temperate zones, songbirds usually copy songs not from their parents but from unrelated members of the same species, usually neighbors. |
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For example, the location of avian influenza outbreaks was likely to correlate with migration routes of songbirds and wading birds. |
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However, many small songbirds such as robins, thrushes, flycatchers and warblers migrate mainly during darkness, probably to avoid predators and to keep cool. |
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We spotted all of the expected shorebirds, seabirds, and songbirds. |
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Meadows provide feeding and nesting areas for songbirds such as bobolinks and meadowlarks. |
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Cowbirds can devastate migrating songbirds in the United States by parasitizing their nests, for example. |
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Every spring, migrating songbirds draw thousands of visitors to Point Pelee National Park in southern Ontario. |
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Turn scrap wood into birdhouses: Mount nesting boxes on posts or under eaves to shelter songbirds and boost their populations. |
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Of the songbirds, the light-vented bulbul was a symbol of longevity thanks to the white cap on its head, which gave it the appearance of a white-haired old man. |
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Fort Hood contains essential nesting habitat for two endangered neotropical migratory songbirds, the golden-cheeked warbler and the black-capped vireo. |
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Forests of bur oak serve as breeding sites for numerous songbirds, including indigo bunting, vesper sparrow, and yellow-throated vireo, which breed in these areas exclusively. |
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For songbirds, early risers may have a greater chance of successfully producing offspring and passing along their chronotype to the next generation. |
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Its diverse habitats attract many species of passerines, or songbirds. |
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Scotts® Finch Blend is specially formulated to attract a variety of finches and other small songbirds. |
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These include several passerine songbirds typical of shrub and forest habitats, such as thrushes, flycatchers, and warblers. |
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The white buntings of the genus Plectrophenax are hardy songbirds of the Arctic. |
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Isolated from their mainland ancestors, songbirds had evolved in unexpected ways. |
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European jurisprudence strictly prohibits hunting on the high sea, the hunting of songbirds with nets, and the mass shooting of rare songbirds. |
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In the Liard Plateau area of the southern Northwest Territories, a study to assess the impacts of seismic lines on forest songbirds. |
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The environment aspect of the wetlands on the Great Lakes are a major source for fish breeding and for birds, and for songbirds as well. |
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Swainson's Thrush was used to assess use by songbirds and to serve as an ecological indicator of localized fragmentation of forest habitat. |
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There is documented use by waterfowl along the Ottawa River and songbirds in the wooded areas during migration periods. |
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Densely vegetated riparian areas provide essential habitat for many wildlife species including deer, songbirds, insects and many aquatic species. |
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It has recently come to my attention that you have been spuriously promising your vast readership pictures of young dolly songbirds in a state of total undress. |
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Bird watcher Al Grass says waterfowl, raptors and songbirds can be spotted at Maplewood Flats because it is a critical wintering habitat for many species of birds. |
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I responded to Dave that mobbing behavior, when smaller birds team up to harry a larger one, is common in many bird species, from corvids to raptors to songbirds. |
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Yet while they sing naturally, songbirds are also trained by their owners, who spend many hours whistling tunes at them, or playing birdsong on tape as examples to follow. |
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They explore the wonders of nature from songbirds to horned deer. |
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Some birds, including game species such as pheasant and prairie grouse and non-game species such as songbirds, prefer open grassland to woody cover. |
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Wildlife is plentiful, including jackrabbits, mule deer, elk, pheasant, sage grouse, barn owls, bald and golden eagles, and dozens of species of songbirds. |
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The pheasant calls for Pommard, while songbirds and hare lend themselves to aged Bordeaux or a light Gevrey. |
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In describing warblers, as I do so lovingly, one can draw upon words like avifauna, avians, birds, songbirds, beautiful birds, and, of course, warblers. |
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Over time, songbirds like the robin and other prized avians, including bald eagles and peregrine falcons, ingested enough contaminated prey that they died of DDT poisoning. |
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Because of this diversity of tree species, migratory songbirds such as scarlet tanagers, hermit thrushes, and chestnut-sided warblers return to nest there each spring. |
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The area is home to a variety of other birds, including nesting bald eagles, hawks, owls, bluebirds and several other songbirds, wild turkeys, herons, and waterfowl. |
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One of the Cape's most numerous and widespread songbirds, goldfinches delight in dining on dandelion seeds, thistles, and weed seeds found amongst the beach grass. |
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One hundred years ago, legions of bounty hunters were scouring the swamps and forests of Florida, looking for songbirds to adorn society ladies' hats. |
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Because of their complex songs and specialized neural pathways for learning them, songbirds, or oscines, have been favored subjects of study among scientists. |
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Scientists have really gotten interested in the brains of songbirds, particularly those birds that can keep learning new songs when they're adults, like canaries. |
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Sparrows, swallows, and songbirds tell the story of a place. |
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The role of the syrinx in psittacine sound production is still under examination, and probably differs from that of songbirds. |
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There's more than songbirds and spring peepers in the west Eugene wetlands these days. |
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In body proportions, caprimulgiforms often appear chunky on account of the fluffiness of their plumage, but their actual bodies are proportionately no stouter than most songbirds. |
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The concerns of the PMRA were that the current use of strychnine resulted in appreciable amount of poisoned bait being available to non-target organisms, including songbirds. |
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In Europe, asymptomatic blood infections by hematozoa have been regularly observed, with an especially high prevalence in songbirds. |
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Like all swallows, bank swallows are agile songbirds that specialize in catching insects in midair. |
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Also have a look at Puppy Bedstock, which has wonderfully retro cushions including songbirds and pink flamingos. |
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The area is well known as a provincial hotspot for songbirds and is the only part of Newfoundland where the ruby-throated hummingbird is known to occur. |
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Whether it is pesticides in songbirds or polar bears marooned on melting ice flows, we are used to selling fear of disaster to the media, public and politicians. |
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Though the best songsters may be true songbirds, some birds of other groups have pleasing or musical utterances, like the quavering trill of the screech owl and the cheery whistle of the bobwhite quail. |
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In the deep woods, several songbirds nest in roots and on the ground near streams including Louisiana waterthrush and winter wren. |
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Other bird species include the belted kingfisher, double-crested cormorant, osprey, great gray owl, merlin, common nighthawk, five species of woodpecker and a diverse representation of waterfowl and songbirds. |
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In summers, the South and Middle Urals are visited by songbirds, such as nightingale and redstart. |
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Along the Rupert River, the increased area covered by swampy scrublands as a result of the reduced flow will cause a significant increase in forest bird abundance because riparian habitats support a high density of songbirds. |
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There were no songbirds like in England, just squawking cockatoos and large black currawongs. |
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Summertime is for songbirds and guided interpretive programs. |
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In 2008, biologists and technicians will be returning to several sites, including the Îles de l'Estuaire NWA, to complete the inventory of songbirds and shorebirds. |
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The Detroit River watersheds serve as a migration route for songbirds, raptors, butterflies and dragonflies and are home to hundreds of rare and endangered species. |
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The day was brightening now, and we needed to hustle to locate migrant songbirds, including warblers, vireos, thrushes, and flycatchers. |
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He has participated in and led a variety of wildlife investigations within Labrador ranging from studies of waterfowl and songbirds to small mammals and ungulates. |
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A dynamic environment, the park resounds with migrating songbirds in the spring, hums with cicadas in the summer, flutters with Monarch butterflies in the fall and is a peaceful place of reflection in the winter. |
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Eastern Bluebirds are sexually dichromatic songbirds that, on average, lay 4-5 egg clutches in Alabama. |
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Babies screaming, children playing, cicadas, chickens, songbirds, cows, televisions and, floating above it all, the call to prayer at a distant mosque. |
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Unlike the young of songbirds, shorebird young leave the nest as soon as their down has dried. They are able to feed themselves within a day, running about quickly, jabbing at the ground for small insects. |
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It teems with rare and unique butterflies, songbirds and reptiles. |
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For the first time, biologists have documented a second breeding season for five species of North American songbirds as they head south towards their wintering habitat in Central and South America. |
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Many songbirds adopt a bright, contrasting nuptial plumage during the breeding season, reverting to a drabber winter plumage during the postnuptial molt. |
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Called okimono, the whimsical carvings, measuring a few inches tall, represent scenes from daily life or folk tales: farmers talking to perched songbirds, rats trying on kimonos and monkeys protecting persimmons from wolves. |
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Birds are also widely kept as cagebirds, from songbirds to parrots. |
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The passerines of Australia, also known as songbirds or perching birds, include wrens, the magpie group, thornbills, corvids, pardalotes, lyrebirds. |
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On the windowed mezzanine level, taxidermy songbirds have been strung from criscrossing wires beneath a steel table spread with hundreds of jumping beans. |
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Ravens are songbirds belonging to the corvid family like crows and magpies, and they surpass most of the other avian species in terms of intelligence. |
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Studies in California urban areas showed that coyotes reduced cats in some habitat fragments, which then resulted in an increase in nesting success for songbirds. |
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Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on. |
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Yellowhammers, chaffinches, and other songbirds sang from the fences. |
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Vignettes in this collection feature songbirds that hang out in parking lots, ravens that cavort on airport tarmacs, and a rare spotted redshank visiting Brooklyn. |
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The effect is that of seeing colourful songbirds, flying insouciantly around a massive and venerable building on a day of shifting light and shadow. |
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