songbird
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For example, researchers can randomly assign plots of forest to receive nest boxes in order to test whether they help songbird populations grow.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
The research focused on the Seychelles warbler, a small songbird that lives on Cousin Island in the Seychelles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
As a small-scale songbird rehabilitator I am not equipped, for instance, to take on a pileated woodpecker, which can smash its way out of any enclosure not made of steel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
The yellow-rumped warbler is a migratory songbird that spends its winters in Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
We walked around the outside of the cell house caroling, so I didn’t actually see Capone this time, but I’m almost sure I heard him call out, ‘Sweet as a songbird.’
From "Al Capone Does My Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko
Locals on the island have long made money from hunting wild songbirds and selling them, mainly to domestic customers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
In Yellowstone National Park, their return has been praised with reducing the overabundant elk population and allowing decimated trees such as willows and aspen to recover, which subsequently brought the return of beavers and songbirds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
He has given up on many nights of sleep to set songbirds free, and he has spent the last 10 years persuading the police in Beijing to take this crime seriously.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
Each year, billions of songbirds migrate between breeding and wintering grounds.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
The imaginary citizenry wore garments of simple loveliness, the women's hair long and trailing behind them, or else held aloft by attendant songbirds that were their own sparks of color.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
