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I briefly discuss the major current hypotheses which have been put forward to explain the apparently redundant song repertoires of many oscine birds: individual recognition; sexual selection; matched countersinging; and habituation.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
Thus, our study has revealed more than 200 annotated and unique genes that have not been previously detected in the context of the oscine song system.— PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on.— Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
It was something after the order of the purple martin's melodious sputter, only the tones were richer and fuller and the music better defined, as became a genuine oscine.— Birds of the Rockies
For that matter, however, there is no one of our birds -- be he, in technical language, "oscine" or "non-oscine" -- whose voice is not, in its own way, agreeable.— Birds in the Bush

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