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Songbirds

Known as: Oscine, Oscines, Songbird 
PASSERIFORMES of the suborder, Oscines, in which the flexor tendons of the toes are separate, and the lower syrinx has 4 to 9 pairs of tensor muscles… 
National Institutes of Health

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Eremophila alpestrisFamily Turdidae (organism)FinchesFlycatchers (bird)
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Highly Cited
2018
Highly Cited
2018
No evidence that carotenoid pigments boost either immune or antioxidant defenses in a songbird
Dietary carotenoids have been proposed to boost immune system and antioxidant functions in vertebrate animals, but studies aimed… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Perceived Predation Risk Reduces the Number of Offspring Songbirds Produce per Year
Fear itself reduces reproductive success in song sparrows. Predator effects on prey demography have traditionally been ascribed… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
The genome of a songbird
The zebra finch is an important model organism in several fields with unique relevance to human neuroscience. Like other… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds
Humans regularly produce new utterances that are understood by other members of the same language community. Linguistic theories… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Avian metabolism: Costs of migration in free-flying songbirds
Billions of songbirds migrate between continents twice each year, but the energy costs of this feat have never been measured for… 
Review
2002
Review
2002
What songbirds teach us about learning
Bird fanciers have known for centuries that songbirds learn their songs. This learning has striking parallels to speech… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Song Learning, Early Nutrition and Sexual Selection in Songbirds
SYNOPSIS. The developmental processes through which songbirds acquire their species—typical songs have been well—studied from a… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Linking breeding and wintering grounds of neotropical migrant songbirds using stable hydrogen isotopic analysis of feathers
Abstract Recent studies have shown that stable hydrogen isotope ratios (δD) in the tissues of animals often correlate with δD of… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Song presentation induces gene expression in the songbird forebrain.
We investigated the participation of genomic regulatory events in the response of the songbird brain to a natural auditory… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Sexual dimorphism in vocal control areas of the songbird brain.
In canaries and zebra finches, three vocal control areas in the brain are strikingly larger in males than in females. A fourth… 
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