passerine

How To Use passerine In A Sentence

• This could refer to any of the passerines, though most likely a canary or similar caged exotic.
• Divers, grebes, geese, ducks, raptors, auks and passerines are the most affected especially in very hard weather which results in the surface of lakes and reservoirs freezing.
• Cracraft shows an unresolved three-way split between oscines (which form the large majority of passerine birds), suboscines, and New Zealand wrens.
• In many passerine species, including bluethroats, male removal results in an overall reduction in food supply.
• The stunning list of passerines to be found at the site includes calandra lark, crag martin, rufous - tailed scrub robin, three species of wheatears, blue rock thrush, various species of warblers, rock nuthatch, lesser grey and woodchat shrikes, rose - coloured starling, rock sparrow, black - headed and ortolan buntings, and others.
• The barn swallow is a approximately 18-g, migratory, semicolonial passerine that breeds commonly throughout most parts of the Palearctic and Nearctic temperate regions.
• The magpie is monogamous, territorial, sedentary, and relatively long-lived for passerine birds, with a well-described biology.
• The barn swallow is a semicolonial, aerially insectivorous passerine.
• Eastern bluebirds are socially monogamous passerines that breed throughout eastern North America.
• The rifleman (a New Zealand wren, Acanthisitta chloris: fam Acanthisittidae) is a basal passerine.