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The bird fauna is dominated by plovers and passerines while waterfowl (geese, ducks, and loons) are found only in river valleys and on lakes.
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Late nestling cuckoos have evolved perceptible signals to manipulate thepasserinenervous system by initiating and then arresting or interrupting normal processing.
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Thus, the cuckoo deposits eggs inpasserinenests, tricking the foster parents into incubating and feeding the cuckoo's young.
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Due to logistic constraints with telemetry of small passerines in tropical rain forests, our sample sizes remained limited.
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Seasonal variation of foraging niches in a guild ofpasserinebirds in a cork-oak woodland.
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Onepasserineclearly hover-plucked a seed and flew off with it.
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Little is known about range use patterns of rain-forest passerines, because of limited accessibility to their habitat.
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Other strategies such as nectar robbing, either by trochilids or passerines, were not recorded.
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Five visitors were unidentified passerines; the sixth was an unidentified woodpecker.
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Differences in colour vision make passerines less conspicuous in the eyes of their predators.
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In this way, cuckoos are able to subvert and co-opt the passerine's modularized survival mechanisms. 11.
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Three other passerines appeared to have taken seeds, but observations were insufficiently clear to confirm this.
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Yet, our study is one of the first documenting that rain-forest passerines may develop different strategies to cope with habitat fragmentation.
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During the dry season, the proportion of avian predators to potential prey is lower than during the wet season becausepasserinebirds comprise the large majority of all migrants.
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For forest passerines, detailed information on range use patterns is particularly interesting, especially in tropical rain forests, as some of these species can be useful indicators of fragmentation effects.
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Dietary niche breadth in a local community ofpasserinebirds, an analysis using phylogenetic contrasts.
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It is on the latter that we want to bring our influence to bear, those countries which expose for sale large numbers of small passerines and all the warbler tribe.
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However, it is must less of a restriction to them than it is topasserinebirds, which are used to flight and to nesting in trees.
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They are nectar feeders and closely resemble other nectar-feeding passerines.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are among the very few passerines birds that soar, and can often be seen feeding just above the treetops.
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