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Passeridae - true sparrows: Old world birds formerly considered weaverbirds

bird family - a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings

Oscines, Passeres, suborder Oscines, suborder Passeres - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds

sparrow, true sparrow - any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects

genus Passer, Passer - type genus of the Passeridae

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References in periodicals archive

The family that dominated the population in number of pairs was Fringillidae (446.5 pairs), followed by Muscicapidae (194 pairs), Turdidae (117 pairs), Columbidae (85 pairs), and Passeridae (74.5 pairs).

Effect of Habitat Types on Breeding Bird Assemblages in the Sidi Reghis Forests (Oum El Bouaghi, North-Eastern Algeria)

Leucismo parcial en el gorrion casero Passer domesticus (Passeriformes: Passeridae) en Mexico.

Leucism in neotropical otters (Lontra longicaudis annectens) from Mexico

On the contrary, 4 million sparrow, Passer domesticus (L.) (Passeriformes: Passeridae), roadkills per year were estimated in the United Kingdom by Hodson (1966), but the roadkill rate was not considered high enough to affect the overall sparrow population.

Reducing mowing frequency increases floral resource and butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea and Papilionoidea) abundance in managed roadside margins

Fourteen polymorphic microsatellite loci characterized in the house sparrow Passer domesticas (Passeridae, Aves).

Food supplementation and extrapair paternity in house sparrows

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