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
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
Fortunately, these bats pose no threat to songbird populations.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
The fire also swept through parts of the island that have rare habitats for sensitive plant and animal species found nowhere else, such as the endangered San Clemente loggerhead shrike, a carnivorous songbird.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2024
There was a pretty songbird labeled a snow lark and a gray-furred rodent called an alpine marmot.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
“Sing for your supper and you’ll get breakfast, songbirds always eat,” the lyrics go, before offering a crucial caveat: “If their song is sweet to hear.”
From Salon ● May 15, 2026
It helps nurture a slower, older way of life, with pocket flocks and modest dairy herds enclosed by thick hedgerows foaming with cow parsley and twittering songbirds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
With songbirds in decline across Europe, he said it is important to "cherish" moments like this.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
This region shelters not only migratory songbirds but also jaguars, tapirs, and scarlet macaws.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2025
There were twice as many songbirds in the eastern United States in 1948 as now.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
