a small songbird found in the region of Strasbourg.

Ornithology. (With capital initial and plural agreement). An extensive division of birds (the songbirds) containing those families of advanced…

In the names of birds native to New Zealand. a small songbird of New Zealand forests, Petroica australis (family Eopsaltriidae), with chiefly dark…

†(a) the corn bunting, Emberiza calandra (obsolete); (b) a North American sparrow, Calamospiza melanocorys, having greyish-brown and white or (in…

(a) either of two Australasian boatbills of the genus Machaerirhynchus; = boatbill, n. 2a; (b) a large, yellow-breasted tyrant flycatcher of…

A bird of the suborder Oscines; a songbird.

the popular name esp. in Africa of various small birds.

Any of various subtropical and tropical passerine birds of the New World family Grallariidae, which are insectivorous (often ant-eating) forest…

Either of two insectivorous songbirds of the genus Machaerirhynchus, having large flat bills and found in the tropical rainforests of New Guinea and…

Australian. The grey-crowned babbler, Pomatostomus temporalis, a bird with broad white bands between a narrow grey crown and dark eyestripes.