A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Focus on awareness against pollution, media urged] Reference
Complex biogeographic history of a Holarctic passerine. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Then, after a while, you see a duck, or a gull, or a passerine. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese White-Eye] Reference
Erythrina poeppigiana is pollinated by perching passerine birds. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 36] Reference
Coming soon: musings on a possible path to passerine parasitism. From Wordnik.com. [The evolution of vampires] Reference
A phylogenetic supertree of oscine passerine birds (Aves: Passeri). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
The Falklands also have a mystery wren, or at least a wren-like passerine. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
The case for passerine predation in Greater noctules is pretty compelling. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
The fossil passerine birds from the Pleistocene of Carpinteria, California. From Wordnik.com. [Regulus satrapa - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
And the muffled "chirrrr-roop" of a passerine songbird, somewhere down the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Out of 178 species recorded ninety-six (54%) were passeriforms, eighty-two (46%) non-passerine. From Wordnik.com. [Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil] Reference
A passerine endemic to moist montane forests on New Guinea, Ifrita is remarkable for two reasons. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Indeed, the LPO hypothesis has been mostly driven by studies on passerine speciation (Brodkorb 1960). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
Batrachotoxin alkaloids from passerine birds: a second toxic bird genus (Ifrita kowaldi) from New Guinea. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
The few scorpions and insects are the prey of lizards (Tropidurus spp.) and of a small passerine of the genus Geositta. From Wordnik.com. [Atacama desert] Reference
Ducks and ostriches and stuff are non-passerine species. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Hood's labors were poetic, but his sports were passerine. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Lamb]
We studied changes in coloration after moult in four passerine birds. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
This tint grows pale more easy than in the other genera of the passerine order. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Animal deathmatch: rhino vs croc, hippo vs shark .... leopard vs small passerine??. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Undoubtedly passerine in structure, shrikes are as indubitably raptores by nature. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
They were asked to report on the complexity and volume of the passerine calls they heard. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Among passerine birds I am also inclined to think that swallows show inherited fear of hawks. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
THE PIGEON — The pigeon tribe forms a connecting ling between the passerine birds and poultry. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine and passerine tribes resort to the fruit - bearing trees. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in South America] Reference
It is the term applied to a one-year-old sheep. passerine It ought to be a bird of passage, but it isn't. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2] Reference
Labeled drawings of a shorebird, hummingbird, gull, and passerine will definitely help beginners with terms. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
The zebra finch is the first passerine, and only the second bird species, after chickens, to have its genome sequenced. From Wordnik.com. [Domain-b Brand Dossier] Reference
And a survey of the diverse passerine family of birds suggests that in that battle, complexity is traded off against volume. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
The annual destruction of adult birds is very great -- more than double that, I believe, which takes place in other passerine families. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
Firstly, nobody really knows what it is and over the years it’s been classified in several different, disparate passerine families. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
Your partly passerine pal. From Wordnik.com. [October 25th - General Election.] Reference
In the battle for baseball passerine dominance (at least, until the. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebird Banter] Reference
A swift is not a passerine bird. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
In addition to the passerine birds listed above. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
'A tenuirostral non-passerine bird of the family. From Wordnik.com. [OUPblog] Reference
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