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from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the crown or top of the head white, as a bird.
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Mystery bird: Northern white-crowned shrike, Eurocephalus rueppelli
Spacewatch: International Space Station timings and positions 2011
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Mystery bird: Northern white-crowned shrike, Eurocephalus rueppelli
Secret voyages of leatherback turtles revealed using transmitters 2011
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In some species, such as white-crowned sparrows, the young of the year do not even make their first migration in the company of experienced adults.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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Postfledging dispersal of white-crowned pigeons: Implications for conservation of deciduous seasonal forests in the Florida keys.
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Behavioral ecologist Elizabeth Derryberry Louisiana State University has found that the songs of white-crowned sparrows change over time in response to changing habitats.
Bird Songs Change In Response To Changing Habitats | Impact Lab 2009
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Derryberry, who earlier discovered that female white-crowned sparrows preferred the slower new songs to the chirpy old ones, is now a researcher at Louisiana State University.
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As vegetation reclaimed formerly cleared land in California, Oregon and Washington over the last 35 years, male white-crowned sparrows have lowered their pitch and slowed down their singing so that their love songs would carry better through heavier foliage.
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The 385 bird species attributed to the ecoregion include nine near-endemic species and two endemic species: the black-browed babbler Malacocincla perspicillata and the white-crowned shama (Copsychus stricklandii) (Table 2).
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Migratory sleeplessness in the white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys gambelii).
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Three bird species are considered near-endemic: Dorst's cisticola (Cisticola dorsti, DD), white-crowned robin-chat (Cossypha albicapilla) and Mali firefinch (Lagonosticta virata).
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