passerines in English

noun
1
a passerine bird; a perching bird.
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.

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1. Unlike many other passerines they are not common species in the cage bird trade.

2. While most modern passerines have ten primaries, some have only nine.

3. Passerines such as the black-throated thrush (Turdus ruficollis) or robin Accentor (Prunella rubeuloides) winter in this ecoregion.

4. The systematics of the Babblers (Timaliidae) and related members of the Old World insectivorous passerines have been particularly difficult

5. The Crows are small to moderately large birds, indeed the ravens are the largest of all passerines, and most

6. In passerines, flight feathers are replaced one at a time with the innermost primary being the first.

7. Aprocta cylindrica should be considered a differential diagnosis in periocular abnormalities of robins and other insectivorous, migratory passerines in Western Europe.

8. Aprocta cylindrica should be considered a differential diagnosis in periocular abnormalities of robins and other insectivorous, migratory passerines in Western Europe

9. The number in non-passerines generally varies between 9 and 11, but grebes, storks and flamingos have 12, and ostriches have 16.

10. Barbets are a group of medium sized, chunky, generally colorful, frugivorous, hole-nesting near-passerines, that are popular targets for anyone birding in the tropics

11. ‘Arctic terns, Mew gulls, scaup, shoveler, buffleheads, Baldpates, yellow legs and various passerines were observed.’ ‘Examples of dabbling ducks are the mallards, cinnamon teals, shovellers, green and blue-winged teals, pintails, black ducks, Baldpates and gadwalls.’

12. These are medium to large-sized passerines, ranging from the golden Bowerbird at 22 centimetres (8.7 in) and 70 grams (2.5 oz) to the great Bowerbird at 40 centimetres (16 in) and 230 grams (8.1 oz)

13. For example, most passerines have a focus between the innermost primary (P1, using the numbering scheme explained above) and outermost secondary (S1), and a focus point in the middle of the center pair of rectrices.