noun
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any passerine bird of the suborder Oscines, having highly developed vocal organs and, in most, a musical call
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any bird having a musical call
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Origin of songbird
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For example, researchers can randomly assign plots of forest to receive nest boxes in order to test whether they help songbird populations grow.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
The research focused on the Seychelles warbler, a small songbird that lives on Cousin Island in the Seychelles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
As a small-scale songbird rehabilitator I am not equipped, for instance, to take on a pileated woodpecker, which can smash its way out of any enclosure not made of steel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The yellow-rumped warbler is a migratory songbird that spends its winters in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
I alter bodies, change hair colors and skin tones, give a man a songbird voice, erase agelines, and try to reassure frantic courtiers about how beautiful they are.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
University of Michigan scientists have used artificial intelligence to uncover a striking pattern in the evolution of Passeriformes, the vast bird group that includes most songbirds.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
A team analysed the songs of more than 100,000 songbirds and revealed that the world's birdsongs are composed of eight fundamental types of sound that the researchers call "motifs".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
In Yellowstone National Park, their return has been praised with reducing the overabundant elk population and allowing decimated trees such as willows and aspen to recover, which subsequently brought the return of beavers and songbirds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
It helps nurture a slower, older way of life, with pocket flocks and modest dairy herds enclosed by thick hedgerows foaming with cow parsley and twittering songbirds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
I don’t want to talk about dying songbirds.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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