| 单词 | passerine |
| 例句 | Ms McRobert said the warbler, one of the passerine order, or perching birds, was only able to make the journey from west to east, not in the other direction. Isles of Scilly: Fears rare songbird will never return to US 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z In 2012, evolutionary biologist Catherine Sheard started an ambitious Ph.D. project: measuring the shape of every kind of passerine, or perching bird, in the world. First-of-its-kind global catalog of bird shapes yields ecological ‘gold mine’ 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “The wetlands will provide foraging and rearing habitat for a diversity of coastal dependent and migratory shorebirds, waterfowl and passerine species, including for example black oystercatchers, greater yellowlegs and red-necked grebe.” Whatcom Land Trust to buy, protect wetland near creek 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Nearly two decades later, the sparrow's adaptation to North America was a noteworthy passerine triumph. Victorian efforts to export animals to new worlds failed, mostly 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z Based on the DNA sequences and a handful of fossils of known age, the team reconstructed how the various passerine families were related and when they branched off. Solving the Mystery of Songbird Diversity 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Where do Old World buntings fit in the passerine family tree? Of Yellowhammer and Corn Bunting 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Elaenia is a genus of small passerine, or perching, birds, and naming an album after such a delicate species seems meant to evoke the natural world. The pleasant, slippery logic of Floating Points’ Elaenia 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z There is at least one exception to the smaller-is-sweeter rule: Australia's pheasant-size superb lyrebird, a type of passerine, is "undoubtedly the bird with the world's most complex song," Remsen says by email. Why Do Small Birds Have Sweeter Songs? 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The correlation between ecology and morphology in diciduous forest passerine birds. Bird behaviour, the ‘deep time’ perspective 2014-01-27T12:35:26Z It then compared this time line of diversification against climate and geologic records to see if the passerine diversification trends correlated with events in Earth history, as predicted by some hypotheses. Solving the Mystery of Songbird Diversity 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z They’re actually of controversial position within the passerine radiation, seemingly not grouping within any of the four major clades within Passerida. Great tits: still murderous, rapacious, flesh-rending predators! 2013-02-06T19:45:00.303Z Conservationists do not know how the merit release market figures into Asia’s overall wildlife trade, which also exploits wild birds for pets, food, passerine fights and song contests. Buddhist Ceremonial Release of Captive Birds May Harm Wildlife [Slide Show] 2012-08-01T10:15:00.173Z Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and one backward, as in most passerine birds. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Shrike, shrīk, n. a genus of passerine birds which prey on insects and small birds, impaling its prey on thorns—hence called the Butcher-bird. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z The findings prompted the authors to suggest that more complex mechanisms than temperature or ecological opportunity were the main drivers of passerine speciation. Solving the Mystery of Songbird Diversity 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Ecological aspects of species formation in passerine birds. Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys 2011-12-15T03:00:11.933Z And separations of nocturnal migrants into broad categories, such as seabirds and passerine birds, are often both useful and feasible. A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 2011-11-02T02:00:14.587Z Cotinga, kō-ting′ga, n. a genus of passerine birds of bright plumage, represented by six species in central and in tropical South America. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z The remaining fifty-nine were all passerine birds, of which there were eight each of the families of flycatchers, manakins, and cotingas. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Lead researcher Jacopo Cecere from the University of Rome says these perching or passerine birds are not adapted to feed on nectar. Energy drink 2011-06-20T09:30:16Z The sequence of plumages and moults of the passerine birds of New York. Comparative Breeding Behavior of Ammospiza caudacuta and A. maritima 2011-06-01T02:00:28.030Z Scientists surveyed 82 species of passerine birds, including sparrows, pigeons and anything that perches, in and around 12 cities in central Europe. Urban Birds Boast Big Brains 2011-04-27T19:45:06.157Z The researchers did not include passerine, or perching birds, in their analysis. 2010-02-05T17:49:00Z Ant-thrush, a name given to certain passerine or perching birds having resemblances to the thrushes and supposed to feed largely on ants. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Most ornithologists agree that some of the passerine families of current classifications are artificial groups. Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study The thick-heads were by far the most common passerine bird in the relict forest on Siamil Island, being quite tame and easily approached. Birds from North Borneo University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966 A brief skirmish between a male of this species and a small, greenish passerine was observed at the Natural History Reservation on May 25, 1960. Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon The function of the depressor mandibulae muscle in certain passerine birds. Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine, and passerine tribes, resort to the fruit-bearing trees. Wanderings in South America He assumes that since palato-maxillaries seem to be absent in the majority of passerine birds, their occurrence in certain nine-primaried oscine groups indicates relationship among these groups. Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study Among birds there are pigeons, fowls, peacocks, and guinea-fowl, and aquatic birds such as swans, geese, and ducks, whilst the only really domesticated passerine bird is the canary. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The White-eyed Vireo was singing from a perch 30 feet high in a dead elm, when the unidentified passerine landed 10 feet distant. Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon It is in no way connected with the jay tribe, being not even a passerine bird. Birds of the Indian Hills The common passerine birds also attend carefully to the sanitation of the nest and remove the feces, which is inclosed in a membrane and is thus easily carried in the bill. The Bird Study Book Patterns of leg-musculature were chosen for study because earlier work showed that muscle patterns in the legs of passerine birds are highly stable and vary but little. Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study The way passerine birds are killed and eaten in that country is a disgrace to the government of Italy, and a standing reproach to the throne. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Natal plumages and downy pteryloses of passerine birds of North America. Natural History of the Bell Vireo, Vireo bellii Audubon Undoubtedly passerine in structure, shrikes are as indubitably raptores by nature. Birds of the Indian Hills The pie, the gallinaceous, the columbine and passerine tribes resort to the fruit- bearing trees. Wanderings in South America The annual destruction of adult birds is very great—more than double that, I believe, which takes place in other passerine families. The Naturalist in La Plata In addition to the passerine birds listed above. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Something of the beginnings and progressive development of this instinct may be learnt, I think, by noticing the behaviour of various passerine birds in the presence of danger, to their nests and young. Birds in Town and Village This tint grows pale more easy than in the other genera of the passerine order. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 THE PIGEON—The pigeon tribe forms a connecting ling between the passerine birds and poultry. The Book of Household Management Among passerine birds I am also inclined to think that swallows show inherited fear of hawks. The Naturalist in La Plata Hood's labors were poetic, but his sports were passerine. Charles Lamb It was an inch high and a little branchy,... and was at first mistaken for the dung of birds of the passerine order. Darwin and Modern Science |
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