Oscines

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Oscines

[′äs·ə‚nēz]

(vertebrate zoology)

The songbirds, a suborder of the order Passeriformes.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Oscines

a suborder of birds of the order Passeriformes. The suborder includes more than 40 families. The birds have a specialized larynx, which makes possible their beautiful songs. The suborder contains such singing birds as thrushes, nightingales, and mockingbirds.

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Instead Kroodsma has provided a meticulous compendium of what is now knowable through the prism of individual experience about the singing of oscines and suboscines in the context of their life cycles and environments.

The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body

In general, Suboscines Passerine birds are more closely-related to forested landscapes, and Oscines usually are more linked to open areas (Willis, 1979; Sick, 1997).

A total of 71 Passerine bird species from 11 families were sampled, and 30 had at least 10 captures, from which twenty (66.7%) were Suboscine, and 10 (33.4%) Oscine Passerines.

Searching for bioindicators of forest fragmentation: passerine birds in the Atlantic forest of southeastern Brazil/Busca por bioindicadores de fragmentacao florestal: aves Passeriformes na Floresta Atlantica do Sudeste do Brasil

However hybridization is relatively frequent among passerines, specifically the oscines, where song differences between species are ubiquitous and song is learned (Marler and Peters 1977; Marler 1987; Searcy et al.