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Almost half of the world’s birds are song birds, so called because most of them, by means of an advanced type of syrinx, can produce pure musical notes strung together into highly specific patterns and are thus said to sing. Most small woodland, grassland and suburban birds, outside South America, are song birds and only a few families, such as the crows, include even moderately large species.
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© 1979 J. E. Webb, J. A. Wallwork and J. H. Elgood
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Webb, J.E., Wallwork, J.A., Elgood, J.H. (1979). The Song Birds. In: Guide to Living Birds. Classification Guides. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03613-4_13
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