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… (More)
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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… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
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… (More)
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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… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Polarized light cues underlie compass calibration in migratory songbirds.
Migratory songbirds use the geomagnetic field, stars, the Sun, and polarized light patterns to determine their migratory… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Vocal Experimentation in the Juvenile Songbird Requires a Basal Ganglia Circuit
Songbirds learn their songs by trial-and-error experimentation, producing highly variable vocal output as juveniles. By comparing… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Migrating songbirds recalibrate their magnetic compass daily from twilight cues.
Night migratory songbirds can use stars, sun, geomagnetic field, and polarized light for orientation when tested in captivity. We… (More)
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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… (More)
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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… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Coordinated Interaction of Neurogenesis and Angiogenesis in the Adult Songbird Brain
Neurogenesis proceeds throughout life in the higher vocal center (HVC) of the adult songbird neostriatum. Testosterone induces… (More)
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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… (More)
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