WordNet
- relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds
- chiefly arboreal birds especially of the order Coraciiformes
English Journal
- Eggshell pigment composition covaries with phylogeny but not with life history or with nesting ecology traits of British passerines.
- Brulez K1, Mikšík I2, Cooney CR3, Hauber ME4, Lovell PG5, Maurer G6, Portugal SJ7, Russell D8, Reynolds SJ1, Cassey P6.
- Ecology and evolution.Ecol Evol.2016 Feb 12. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1960. [Epub ahead of print]
- No single hypothesis is likely to explain the diversity in eggshell coloration and patterning across birds, suggesting that eggshell appearance is most likely to have evolved to fulfill many nonexclusive functions. By controlling for nonindependent phylogenetic associations between related species,
- PMID 26904185
- Magnitude and variation of prehistoric bird extinctions in the Pacific.
- Duncan RP1, Boyer AG, Blackburn TM.
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.2013 Apr 16;110(16):6436-41. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1216511110. Epub 2013 Mar 25.
- The largest extinction event in the Holocene occurred on Pacific islands, where Late Quaternary fossils reveal the loss of thousands of bird populations following human colonization of the region. However, gaps in the fossil record mean that considerable uncertainty surrounds the magnitude and patte
- PMID 23530197
- New family host and records of Acanthocrios furnarii (Cordero & Vogelsang, 1928) (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) from Argentina, and implications in the transmission mechanism of cimicid bugs among birds' nests.
- Di Iorio O1, Turienzo P, Bragagnolo L, Santillan MA, Grande JM.
- Zootaxa.Zootaxa.2013;3630:582-90.
- Acanthocrios furnarii (Cordero & Vogelsang, 1928) [Hemiptera: Cimicidae: Haematosiphoninae] is an ectoparasite on avian hosts from Argentina and Uruguay. It has been mostly found in mud nests of Furnarius rufus (Gmelin, 1788) [Aves: Furnariidae], but its true hosts are some of the inquiline bird
- PMID 26131534
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- adjective 1. of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching. ... 1776, from L. passerinus "of a sparrow," from passer "sparrow," possibly of ...
- adjective 1. of, belonging, or pertaining to the order Passeriformes, comprising more than half of all birds and typically having the feet adapted for perching. ... 1776, from L. passerinus "of a sparrow," from passer "sparrow," possibly of ...
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