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ovenbird
The video thumbnail image shows a brown-speckled bird perched on a branch, singing with an open beak.
Eurasian nightingale (Erithacus megarhynchos) The origins of birds. Hear the songs of many different birds. Large communal nest of the social weaver bird, Philetairus socius, built in a tree with many entrance holes visible among dense, brown grass woven around bare branches. Orange-billed nightingale thrush (Catharus aurantiirostris) Streaky seedeater (Serinus striolatus) basic body feather tracts on a generalized songbird Map of North and South America highlighting regions where passerine (songbird) species have small geographic ranges. Colored zones indicate the number of such species per area: blue for 1, green for 2 to 5, yellow for 6 to 10, red for 11 to 15, and black for 16 to 500. Concentrated areas appear in parts of Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, and select coastal and mountainous regions.
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Songbird: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Article title updated for style. Nov 13, 2026
Added media. Dec 13, 2024
Media added. Sep 26, 2024
Added interactive. Aug 21, 2024
Invalidated site: Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - Songbirds. Jan 14, 2020
Add new Web site: Easy Science for Kids - Songbirds and How They Sing. Aug 19, 2016
Added a photo of an ovenbird. Sep 12, 2011
Added images of an orange-billed nightingale thrush, a streaky seedeater, and an American crow. Sep 12, 2011
Updated taxonomy. Mar 10, 2010
Corrected genus of mockingbird (Mimus). Apr 15, 2009
Article added to new online database. May 04, 1999
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