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	Passerine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many passerines are songbirds and have complex muscles to control their syrinx; all of them gape in the nest as infants to beg for food.
		Many passerine families were grouped together on the basis of morphological similarities which, it is now believed, are the result of convergent evolution, not a close genetic relationship.
		A major branch of the passerine tree, the Passerida (or sparrow-like forms), emerged either as the sister group to another (the Corvida, or crow-like birds), or more likely as a subgroup of the Corvida, and reached the northern hemisphere, where there was a further explosive radiation of new species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Passerine

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Passerine
		Passerine, common name for any of the perching birds belonging to the largest avian order, which includes more than 5,700 highly diverse species and...
		Magpie, common name for any of several passerine (able to perch) birds of the crow family, and for unrelated birds of an Australian family.
		Dipper, common name for five species of passerine (perching) birds.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Passerine.html

	Bahamas news - Bahamian news portal: - Passerine Development on Guana Cay - Commentary
		However, Passerine has negotiated an agreement with the government to the effect that a larger acreage (89 acres) will actually be preserved and managed by an independent trust, funded buy a levy on the residents, so that it will remain an area preserved and protected for research and recreation by all Bahamians and visitors.
		The fact is that the other developments have not addressed the solid waste and sewage issues and Passerine has undertaken to build and operate a solid waste transfer station for the whole island.
		I have also visited the other private developments that are at present building houses on Guana Cay and cover a much larger area that Passerine.
	www.bahamasb2b.com /news/wmprint.php?ArtID=4685

	Search Results for passerine - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Passerines, like other small land birds with fragile bones and arboreal habits, are rarely fossilized; hence the fossil record gives few clues to their evolution.
		Passerines lay clutches of one to 14 eggs, clutch size being unrelated to the size of the bird.
		The colours, patterns, and textures of passerine feathers are considered important taxonomic characters, especially in determining genera, species, and subspecies.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=passerine&submit=Find&source=MWTAB

	Passerine Migration Monitoring Introduction
		Migrating and resident passerines are sampled on the Navarre, Darby, Ottawa units of the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge.
		Adequate stopover habitat may play an important role in delivering migrating passerines to their breeding grounds with sufficient energy reserves to successfully nest.
		This long term study to monitor the population status of neotropical migrants and to better understand the relationship between in-route habitat and their breeding ecology is conducted on the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge complex and neighboring lands in northwest Ohio.
	www.bsbobird.org /passerine_intro.html

	Passerine book search page
		Nearctic Passerine Migrants in South America- No. 25
		The non-passerine Pleistocene avifauna of the Talara Tar Seeps, northwestern Peru
		excuse it, as Passerine might by the theory that the sensational element
	booksyoudo.20m.com /passerine.html

	Identifying Predators and Fates Of Grassland Passerine Nests
		Abstract: Nest fates, causes of nest failure, and identities of nest predators are difficult to determine for grassland passerines.
		We developed a miniature video-camera system for use in grasslands and deployed it at 69 nests of 10 passerine species in North Dakota during 1996-97.
		Table 2 -- Videotaped fates of eggs and nests during incubation for grassland passerine species.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/2000/vcamera/vcamera.htm

	The Guardian's Business News
		Passerine at Abaco Limited was given the green light Tuesday to begin construction of an exclusive resort and residential community at Great Guana Cay in the Abacos.
		With an initial investment of approximately $20 million, the Passerine Partners are proposing to build the resort/residential complex, which they say will include a 75-room luxury-villa style hotel and associated amenities, a first-class 240-slip marina, an 18-hole, 585-acre championship golf course, 350 residential lots and numerous other luxury facilities.
		A Heads of Agreement between the Bahamas government and the Passerine Group was signed at the Cabinet Office Tuesday morning.
	www.thenassauguardian.com /bixex/309120085596938.php

	Justin Philip Crable,Jodi Berlin, Courtney Piotrowski,Corey Brooks - Michigan State University - Dept. of Geography - Landscape Architecture
		The amount of continuous forested areas were tabulated, and upwards of 50% of the total forested area was deemed acceptable under the current standard for passerine bird habitat: 50% of total forested land must be in clumps of 4 kilometers or more.
		Ecologists of Michigan have expressed concern for the passerine birds of the western Michigan study area.
		In creating a large amount of groupings of passerine bird habitat we allow for a diversification in species, and protect the existing population.
	www.ssc.msu.edu /~la/justincrable/p8birds.html

	Black Swamp Bird Observatory -- Passerine Migration Research
		Migrating passerines are monitored for their energetic condition (fat reserves), how long they stay in the area, migration timing, and habitat usage.
		Passerine migration studies have been ongoing since 1978, prior to the existence of the Observatory.
		Passerine Habitat Use During Spring and Fall Migration
	homepages.utoledo.edu /bsbo/spring.html

	BirdForum - What is the meaning of the word "passerine"?
		Those birds which are not placed in the order Passeriformes are called 'non-passerines', while those non-passerines which are most closely related to the passerines are called 'near-passerines', examples of the latter being the swifts (family Apodidae) and the woodpeckers (family Picidae).
		Over half the world's birds are passerines and the order Passeriformes is divided into four sub-orders, of which the only one represented in the British Isles is the sub-order Oscines.
		There are also Passerine tribes, who are defined as a race of people of the fruit trees.
	www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=22021

	DNA and Passerine Classification
		This means that the genetic distance between evolving bird species with the same generation time (e.g., passerines, which all mature at one year) always increases at roughly the same rate.
		Both the mocker and thrasher must have been separated for the same amount of time from the last common ancestor the two shared with the finch.
		Since the Sibley-Ahlquist proposal is somewhat controversial and unfamiliar to most bird enthusiasts, however, the higher classification (arrangement of groups above the generic level-subfamilies, families, etc.) used elsewhere in this book follows the AOU treatment.
	www.stanfordalumni.org /birdsite/text/essays/DNA.html

	Passerine British birds
		This page lists the British bird species in the passerine families, which are listed in accordance with the 2003 reordering of the British list, and follows the families used in that list.
		There are about 550 species of birds on the British list.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/p/pa/passerine_british_birds.html

	Wilson Bulletin: Swallow-tailed Kites carry passerine nests containing nestlings to their own nests. (Short Communications).(Statistical Data Included)@ HighBeam Research
		Wilson Bulletin; 9/1/2001; Coulson, Jennifer O. During 1995-2001, I documented 20 instances of Swallow-tailed Kites (Elanoides forficatus) carrying nests containing nestlings of six passerine species to their nests or roosts adjacent to kite nests in the Pearl River Basin (Mississippi and Louisiana) and Atchafalaya River Basin (Louisiana).
		Swallow-tailed Kites carry passerine nests containing nestlings to their own nests.
		Wilson Bulletin: Swallow-tailed Kites carry passerine nests containing nestlings to their own nests.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:86049580&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf

	ATOXOPLASMA MEDICAL PROTOCOLS RECOMMENDED BY THE PASSERINE ATOXOPLASMA WORKING GROUP
		Passerine birds that are positive for Atoxoplasma and are in a breeding program will be easier to manage in smaller enclosures that can be periodically broken down and sanitized.
		Any zoological institution housing passerines in the typical manner (natural substrates, planted enclosures, mixed species) probably should be considered to have Atoxoplasma in their collection.
		Atoxoplasma in canaries and several other passerine birds.
	www.riverbanks.org /subsite/aig/Atoxo-recommendations.htm

	Auk, The: Timing of breeding range occupancy among high-latitude passerine migrants
		Our analyses examined the timing of spring and autumn migration among 18 passerine species to obtain indirect estimates of the time they occupy their breeding ranges in northwestern North America.
		Yet, the total amount of time passerines spend completing the breeding effort is not well known.
		Auk, The: Timing of breeding range occupancy among high-latitude passerine migrants
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3793/is_200104/ai_n8935915

	Relative sensitivity of nestlings of wild passerine birds to gamma radiation.
		Relative sensitivity of nestlings of wild passerine birds to gamma radiation.
		Willard, W.K. Relative sensitivity of nestlings of wild passerine birds to gamma radiation.
		It was clear that while sub-lethal doses markedly affected the growing tissues of the body and feather follicles, such doses did not affect the brain centers responsible for the development of ontogenetic behavior patterns.
	www.uga.edu /srel/Reprint/0039.htm

	Passerine Among the Natives (Ftrain.com)
		Passerine didn't see me when she spoke to me; I was an audience along her journey, an ear with a body attached.
		This is Passerine Among the Natives by Paul Ford, published Tuesday, January 18, 2000.
		But I can't blame Passerine; she wants to be a voice for those poor people below the equator.
	www.ftrain.com /archive_ftraintwo_9.html

	Barrier crossing in trans–Saharan passerine migrants: migration strategies and implications for conservation
		One way to better understand how passerine migrants adjust their fat levels when facing an ecological barrier, is to analyse the variation of fat reserves before and after crossing these two barriers at the intraspecific level, comparing population with different migration routes.
		We are currently studying pre–migratory fattening strategy in the European populations of Barn Swallows before living their breeding quarters, and the residual fat reserves of several passerine trans–Saharan migrants at their arrival in southern Europe in spring.
		Pilastro, A., Farronato, I., and Fracasso, G. The use of feather length as a method for measuring the wing shape of passerines.
	www.bio.unipd.it /behavecol/Migration.html

	Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation -- Barker et al. 101 (30): 11040 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
		Schematic of spatial and temporal patterns in passerine diversification.
		The earliest fossil passerine is from the early
		from this and other studies (3, 33, 34, 42) indicate that passerines
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/101/30/11040

	F. Keith Barker's Homepage -- Phylogeny and Evolution of Passerine Birds
		First, I have used phylogenetic approaches to address the spatial and temporal history of passerine diversification, using a variety of methods from molecular clocks to quantitative biogeographic analyses.
		My research program has focused on improving our understanding of passerine (especially oscine) phylogeny at all hierarchical levels, from basal relationships within the group, to species-level phylogenies of individual families and genera.
		Based on net diversification rate, one subset of passerines—the oscines or “songbirds”—has been identified as the largest radiation of birds.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~barke042

	Varied Pathogenicity of a Hong Kong-origin H5N1 Avian Influenza Virus in Four Passerine Species and Budgerigars -- Perkins and Swayne 40 (1): 14 -- Veterinary Pathology
		As in the case of the passerine species, the isolation of AI viruses from psittacine birds is an uncommon event.
		Roy G, Burton J, Lecomte J, Boudreault A: Role of passerine birds in the ecology of influenza viruses.
		Nestorowicz A, Kawaoka Y, Bean WJ, Webster RG: Molecular analysis of the hemagglutinin genes of Australian H7N7 influenza viruses: role of passerine birds in maintenance or transmission.
	www.vetpathology.org /cgi/content/full/40/1/14

	USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center: Research Descriptions
		Fragmentation of shrubsteppe habitats by wildfire and human-caused disturbance have contributed to significant declines in the distribution and abundance of breeding passerine birds.
		Many species of passerine birds are too small to instrument with standard radio-telemetry methods.
		As such, critical issues of natal dispersal, migration, and habitat selection remain unanswered for migratory passerine birds because of the inability to track individual birds.
	fresc.usgs.gov /research/detail.asp?Project_ID=179

	Identifying Predators and Fates Of Grassland Passerine Nests
		Types of sign left by predators at 26 grassland passerine nests monitored by cameras in Stutsman and Barnes Counties, North Dakota, 1996-97.
		Next Section -- Figure 1 – Estimated daily predation rates for nests of grassland passerines.
		Previous Section -- Table 5 – Diurnal and nocturnal initial-predation rates for camera-monitored grassland passerine nests.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/2000/vcamera/tab6.htm

	The Use of Constant-effort Mist-netting to Monitor Demographic Processes in Passerine Birds: Annual Variation in Survival, Productivity, and Floaters
		Populations of many North American passerine species appear to be declining at an alarming rate (reviewed in Hagan and Johnston 1992; Askins 1993; Finch and Stangel 1993; Martin and Finch 1995).
		To address this need, we use data on three passerine species gathered from long-term studies conducted at the Palomarin Field Station, and compare results obtained from CEMN with those obtained from intensive observations of color-banded individuals.
		In previous studies, Feu and McMeeking (1991) found differences in the ability of mist nets to track annual variation in productivity among four British passerines.
	birds.cornell.edu /pifcapemay/nur.htm

	Mauritius Fody - Foudi - Foudia rubra
		Hawaii’s passerine program is still in the preliminary stages and much remains to be learned to develop strategies that will best help conserve these tiny birds.
		Conservation efforts to help passerines will be more difficult than for the larger, more resilient birds MWF is working with.
		The Mauritius Fody and the Rodrigues Warbler are both classified as critically endangered and these two passerine species are in grave danger of becoming extinct.
	www.birds.mu /Endemic/MauritiusFody.htm

	Renée Duckworth- papers
		Context-dependent sexual advertisement: plasticity in development of sexual ornamentation throughout the lifetime of a passerine bird.
		Aggressive behavior affects selection on morphology by determining the environment of breeding in a passerine bird.
		Variable reproductive investment along an elevational gradient in two passerine species.
	www.duke.edu /~rad3/renee-papers.html

	Rhodes eResearch Repository - Iris colour in passerine birds: why be bright-eyed?
		An initial survey of iris coloration in passerine birds (Aves: Passeriformes) showed that a brightly pigmented iris is much more common in southern African and Australian birds than in those from Europe, temperate North America, and Venezuela.
		Passeriformes, iris coloration, avian behavioural ecology, passerine birds
		Future studies of avian behavioural ecology should examine critically the role of iris coloration in individual species.
	eprints.ru.ac.za /114

	Re: Boreal Forest passerine habitat story on NPR
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		There are a couple of noteable exceptions, particularly in the Carolinas, but in most of the rest of the country, if one had to make a living off selling products that actually preserved the habitat of the migratory birds we all love, to birders, per se...
	www.ibiblio.org /pardo/birds/current/msg04010.html

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