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- noun Plural form of
icterid .
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Between the poor position of the sun, my crappy binoculars and my inability to ID icterids, I don't know what kind of blackbirds they were.
Archive 2008-03-01 Dafydd 2008
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Not only are all the regular sparrows, finches, and icterids hitting the seed hard but rare visitors like
10,000 Birds 2009
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By looking at recently diverged taxa among North American passerine clades (including grackles, tits, parulids, thrashers and icterids), Klicka & Zink (1997) found that genetic divergence rates actually indicated splits rather older than they’d need to be to satisfy the LPO model: on average, the data suggested Late Pliocene divergence times occurring at about 2.5 million years ago.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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