passerine

• Our data from 40 species of passerine birds show that sperm velocity increases with the size of those sperm components that generate sperm movement itself or produce the energy for it. —  Health News from Medical News Today
• Formerly cultivated plots in the Central Catchment Reserve are also "dominated by small-fruited, small-seeded species dispersed by small passerine birds and fruit bats - on these sites none of the big fruits have come in." the Smithsonian's study plot in Bukit Timah, trees in the nutmeg family (Myristicaceae) "show evidence of lacking a dispersal agent," as hornbills vanished from the site more than a century ago. —  The annotated budak
• This study used original measurements of genome size, cell size, and wing parameters from 74 species of passerine birds and found positive relationships between genome size and cell size, and between genome size and wing loading index. —  Health News from Medical News Today
• Möller A, Sagasser S, Wiltschko W, Schierwater B (2004) Retinal cryptochrome in a migratory passerine bird: a possible transducer for the avian magnetic compass. —  PLoS Biology: New Articles
• September, when passerine migration in the northern hemisphere goes into full swing, when listers try desperately to pick up the migrants they missed on their way north on their way south, and when cool nights means one has to put blankets back on the bed, has been a marvelous month for 10,000 Birds. —  10,000 Birds

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