passiveness

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In 2017, for example, almost 400 passerines became disoriented in a Galveston, Texas, skyscraper’s floodlights and died in collisions with windows.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Though tanagers are among the most elaborately colored passerines, "they have pitiful songs," Remsen says, whereas drably colored wrens "have some of the most amazing sounds."

From National Geographic • Jul. 4, 2015

For previous Tet Zoo articles on crows and other corvoid passerines, see… Burton, M. 1978.

From Scientific American • May 12, 2013

Scientists have found that many migratory birds, especially the passerines, seek to hug the coast and its potential perches as long as possible, leaving the jump over open water to the last possible moment.

From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2012

Cuvier, the great classifier, divides the feathered tribe into six orders—birds of prey, passerines, climbers, gallinaceans, wading, and web-footed birds.

From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Gillmore, Parker