Years later, when she was introduced to John Kennedy at the White House, she was awed at the thought that "little me", a "songbird", had held the smooth white hand of the president.
Philip Low, a graduate student at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California, and colleagues at the University of Chicago have found that a songbird experiences REM sleep, slow-wave sleep and an intermediate stage just as humans do.
Sunbird, any of about 95 species of the songbird family Nectariniidae (order Passeriformes) that have brilliant plumage in breeding males.
Honeybees communicate the direction and distance of a new source of nectar; a male songbird informs rival males of the location of his territory's boundaries and lets females know of the presence of a territory-owning potential mate; vervet monkeys give different calls to signal to other members of the troop the presence of a snake, a leopard, or a bird of prey.
The whitest North American songbird, McKay's bunting (P. hyperboreus), nests on the remote Bering Sea islands of St. Matthew and Hall.
The Estrildidae family belongs to the songbird suborder (Passeri).
Known as the "Peruvian songbird" and the "nightingale of the Andes," Sumac possessed a soaring soprano voice that spanned at least four octaves.
The Icteridae belongs to the songbird suborder (Passeri).
The family, called Chloropseidae by some authors, belongs to the songbird suborder (Passeri).
The Paridae belongs to the songbird suborder (Passeri).
Lark, family name Alaudidae, any of approximately 90 species of a songbird family (order Passeriformes).
