Sentence examples for common songbird from inspiring English sources

In 2003, a Dutch team studying a common songbird, the great tit, reported in Nature that males of the species shifted their calls to a higher frequency in cities, where low-frequency human noise masked their normal song range.

A sneaky tactic perhaps, but one crucial for survival for the common songbird, the great tit.

For more than 40 years, a long-term study in the Netherlands has tracked when this common songbird lays its eggs, how many eggs hatch, and how many hatchlings survive to reproduce.

Though midnight recitals do not match the robin's typical concert schedule, it is a particularly energetic singer, known to sing for more of the day than other common songbirds, and it is one of the first to start in the morning and one of the last to stop at night.

The future is not yet beyond rescue, provided we take appropriate action with due urgency". The EEA report says although there have been some conservation successes, including halting the decline of common songbirds, the "overall status and trends of most species and habitats give rise to concern".

Amakihi, (Loxops virens), perhaps the most common native songbird in Hawaii, a member of the Hawaiian honeycreeper family, Drepanididae (order Passeriformes).

Similar trade-offs between learning and other factors seem to be at work in a common European songbird called the great tit, according to a talk by behavioral ecologist Julie Mofand-Ferron of the University of Ottawa.

The young parasitic weaverbirds learn the songs of their host species during the critical learning period common to songbirds generally.

Although singing complex songs is common amongst songbirds, most mammals lack this ability.

Some common woodland songbirds go to great lengths to avoid crossing open spaces created by loggers and farmers.

Apapane, (Himatione sanguinea), Hawaiian songbird, common on larger islands, a nectar-feeding member of the Hawaiian honeycreeper family, Drepanididae (order Passeriformes).