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Definition of songbird in English: songbirdnoun ˈsɒŋbəːdˈsɔŋˌbərd 1A bird with a musical song. Example sentencesExamples - Our results demonstrate that our model area-sensitive songbird, the Eastern Yellow Robin, experienced relative food shortage in the breeding season in small vs. large fragments.
- A species of territorial songbird colonizes a vacant region to which there is no further immigration.
- At first glance, you might wonder why any forest songbird should be in jeopardy.
- These tours are the best opportunity to view this endangered songbird, since Kirtland's warbler nesting areas in northern Michigan are closed and posted against public entry during the nesting season.
- The other black songbird I had not seen well until this afternoon.
- Anything to avoid another night listening to Jennifer's account of how she catalogued every songbird in Ambridge on the website that day.
- Cowbird removals are used in management of several endangered species of songbird.
- We examined nest-patch vegetation of the Golden - cheeked Warbler, a federally endangered migratory songbird.
- Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south.
- Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds.
- Then, just as I made out the outline of a small brown songbird, the whole flock took to the air again and disappeared over a rise.
- Pygmy Nuthatches are one of only a few cooperatively breeding songbirds in North America.
- The Black-capped Chickadee, a resident cavity-nesting songbird, is known to breed in fragmented and otherwise disturbed habitats.
- Parallels between human and songbird phonological development have led to the use of songbirds as a model for speech development in humans.
- For example, weather during the breeding season and storm frequency during migration might be related to the same climatic factors, both of which could affect songbird numbers.
- These results provide experimental confirmation that conspecific attraction occurs in at least one territorial songbird.
- A recent study of a North American songbird, the Red-eyed Vireo, provides some support for this hypothesis.
- In Chapter 1, the author introduces the robin as America's most well-known songbird: ‘It is as American as apple pie, baseball, and the Stars and Stripes.’
- Suddenly, one lonely songbird pierced the wall of silence with a stunning serenade.
- Take the case of the coastal California gnatcatcher, a diminutive, grayish blue songbird with a home range limited to coastal southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico.
2Ornithology
A perching bird of an advanced group distinguished by having the muscles of the syrinx attached to the bronchial semi-rings; an oscine passerine. Suborder Oscines, order Passeriformes; in Europe ‘songbird’ is effectively synonymous with ‘passerine’ or ‘perching bird’. Example sentencesExamples - All extant European songbirds belong to the oscines, which are assumed to have arisen on the Australian continental plate.
- But the physical part of the syrinx in small songbirds is kind of similar from one bird to the next.
- In such trees the oscine songbirds were separated from suboscines, and they are usually the first avian branch (although the rest of the tree was virtually unchanged).
- Because of their complex songs and specialized neural pathways for learning them, songbirds, or oscines, have been favored subjects of study among scientists.
- Passeriformes is divided into two suborders; most of these birds are Passerii, oscine songbirds.
3informal A female singer. the title track is the kind of tune any Nashville songbird could do Example sentencesExamples - I am a new York secretary by day, sexy songbird by night.
- American Idol songbird Kimberley Locke takes the stage at 1 a.m. today, followed by Deborah Cox at 1 a.m.
- Well, the ex- ‘American Idol’ contestant almost went from songbird to jailbird.
- But, rather than mope, the plucky Canadian songbird decided to make the most of it.
- Then there was the time that I just happened to catch Ken rushing to the Las Vegas airport in the wee hours of the morning after tending to the spectacular backstage strands of songbird Celine Dion.
- For those who just walked into this movie, Jolie Holland is a San Francisco-based alt-country songbird who quietly burst on the scene with the chimerical field recording of 2003's Catalpa.
- And Zambian music fans have shown just how popular the songbird Angela Nyirenda has continued to be.
- Bolton Hospice Lottery is officially launched by Bolton songbird Hannah Morris, and a very special grandmother.
- So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
- I could also kick myself for not getting to NHK Hall for the concert by super songbird Sarah Brightman.
- On Saturday night Mark, Paul, Simon and I went to see songbird Martina Topley-Bird at the Carling Islington Academy.
- Move over Brit-pop, and bring on another depressive songbird accompanied by an acoustic guitar.
- Based in Austin, Texas, this songbird spent years in obscurity before this debut.
- The many Listowel fans of songbird Peggy Sweeney will be delighted to know that she has just released a new CD for the New Year.
- Meanwhile Thom Yorke, the thinking woman's songbird of choice, joins her on This Mess We're In, an affecting duet which could be Bends-era Radiohead and which Harvey wrote especially for him.
- Good luck to Celine Dion, who is putting down her microphone to try to have a little Canadian songbird of her own.
- It was not until a certain jet-black-haired songbird had the courage to step forward and let the world know she suffered from this debilitating affliction that I knew I too could stand tall, gassy burning throat and all.
- Music is the bridge between the old Italian saloon singer and the barefoot Canadian songbird.
- In the late '60s, Sparro had been a folky four-octave songbird with a cult following, not that any of his albums ever charted.
- And Colombian songbird Shakira is out with a new video.
Definition of songbird in US English: songbirdnounˈsôNGˌbərdˈsɔŋˌbərd 1A bird with a musical song. Example sentencesExamples - Only a few shorebirds linger now, and our songbirds are rapidly deserting us for more productive feeding areas to the south.
- These tours are the best opportunity to view this endangered songbird, since Kirtland's warbler nesting areas in northern Michigan are closed and posted against public entry during the nesting season.
- In Chapter 1, the author introduces the robin as America's most well-known songbird: ‘It is as American as apple pie, baseball, and the Stars and Stripes.’
- The Black-capped Chickadee, a resident cavity-nesting songbird, is known to breed in fragmented and otherwise disturbed habitats.
- Pygmy Nuthatches are one of only a few cooperatively breeding songbirds in North America.
- Then, just as I made out the outline of a small brown songbird, the whole flock took to the air again and disappeared over a rise.
- These results provide experimental confirmation that conspecific attraction occurs in at least one territorial songbird.
- Suddenly, one lonely songbird pierced the wall of silence with a stunning serenade.
- A recent study of a North American songbird, the Red-eyed Vireo, provides some support for this hypothesis.
- Anything to avoid another night listening to Jennifer's account of how she catalogued every songbird in Ambridge on the website that day.
- A species of territorial songbird colonizes a vacant region to which there is no further immigration.
- At first glance, you might wonder why any forest songbird should be in jeopardy.
- Our results demonstrate that our model area-sensitive songbird, the Eastern Yellow Robin, experienced relative food shortage in the breeding season in small vs. large fragments.
- Take the case of the coastal California gnatcatcher, a diminutive, grayish blue songbird with a home range limited to coastal southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico.
- The other black songbird I had not seen well until this afternoon.
- We examined nest-patch vegetation of the Golden - cheeked Warbler, a federally endangered migratory songbird.
- Parallels between human and songbird phonological development have led to the use of songbirds as a model for speech development in humans.
- For example, weather during the breeding season and storm frequency during migration might be related to the same climatic factors, both of which could affect songbird numbers.
- Cowbird removals are used in management of several endangered species of songbird.
- Human beings suffered terribly, as did songbird populations, old-growth forests, fur seal colonies, and fragile watersheds.
2Ornithology
A perching bird of an advanced group distinguished by having the muscles of the syrinx attached to the bronchial semirings; an oscine passerine. Suborder Oscines, order Passeriformes; in Europe ‘songbird’ is effectively synonymous with ‘passerine’ or ‘perching bird.’ Example sentencesExamples - But the physical part of the syrinx in small songbirds is kind of similar from one bird to the next.
- All extant European songbirds belong to the oscines, which are assumed to have arisen on the Australian continental plate.
- In such trees the oscine songbirds were separated from suboscines, and they are usually the first avian branch (although the rest of the tree was virtually unchanged).
- Passeriformes is divided into two suborders; most of these birds are Passerii, oscine songbirds.
- Because of their complex songs and specialized neural pathways for learning them, songbirds, or oscines, have been favored subjects of study among scientists.
3informal A female singer. the title track is the kind of tune any Nashville songbird could do Example sentencesExamples - And Colombian songbird Shakira is out with a new video.
- In the late '60s, Sparro had been a folky four-octave songbird with a cult following, not that any of his albums ever charted.
- Bolton Hospice Lottery is officially launched by Bolton songbird Hannah Morris, and a very special grandmother.
- So Foster's got this vaguely martyr-like songbird persona she's working, and sometimes the devious witch bit sticks out too, as on ‘Crackerjack Fool’.
- But, rather than mope, the plucky Canadian songbird decided to make the most of it.
- Meanwhile Thom Yorke, the thinking woman's songbird of choice, joins her on This Mess We're In, an affecting duet which could be Bends-era Radiohead and which Harvey wrote especially for him.
- American Idol songbird Kimberley Locke takes the stage at 1 a.m. today, followed by Deborah Cox at 1 a.m.
- Good luck to Celine Dion, who is putting down her microphone to try to have a little Canadian songbird of her own.
- Well, the ex- ‘American Idol’ contestant almost went from songbird to jailbird.
- And Zambian music fans have shown just how popular the songbird Angela Nyirenda has continued to be.
- On Saturday night Mark, Paul, Simon and I went to see songbird Martina Topley-Bird at the Carling Islington Academy.
- I am a new York secretary by day, sexy songbird by night.
- Music is the bridge between the old Italian saloon singer and the barefoot Canadian songbird.
- Then there was the time that I just happened to catch Ken rushing to the Las Vegas airport in the wee hours of the morning after tending to the spectacular backstage strands of songbird Celine Dion.
- I could also kick myself for not getting to NHK Hall for the concert by super songbird Sarah Brightman.
- For those who just walked into this movie, Jolie Holland is a San Francisco-based alt-country songbird who quietly burst on the scene with the chimerical field recording of 2003's Catalpa.
- It was not until a certain jet-black-haired songbird had the courage to step forward and let the world know she suffered from this debilitating affliction that I knew I too could stand tall, gassy burning throat and all.
- Based in Austin, Texas, this songbird spent years in obscurity before this debut.
- The many Listowel fans of songbird Peggy Sweeney will be delighted to know that she has just released a new CD for the New Year.
- Move over Brit-pop, and bring on another depressive songbird accompanied by an acoustic guitar.
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