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The dunnock is the archetypal little brown bird: its name actually means 'little brown bird', from Old English dun, brown, and ock diminutive for a bird. [1]Little brown bird (LBB) or little brown job (LBJ) is an informal name used by birdwatchers for any of the large number of species of small brown passerine birds, many of which are notoriously difficult to distinguish. [2]
A songbird is a bird belonging to the suborder Passeri of the perching birds (Passeriformes). Another name that is sometimes seen as the scientific or vernacular name is Oscines , from Latin oscen , "songbird".
The brown creeper (Certhia americana), also known as the American treecreeper, is a small songbird, the only North American member of the treecreeper family Certhiidae.
The video was recently captured outside a person’s window, and one cannot help but chuckle over the sight of a tiny little songbird dive-bombing the great big hawk.
The name "dunnock" comes from the English dun (dingy brown, dark-coloured) and the diminutive ock (thus, the original "little brown bird"), [6] [7] while "accentor" is from post-classical Latin and means a person who sings with another. [8] The genus name Prunella is from the German Braunelle, "dunnock", a diminutive of braun, "brown". [9]
Little auk; Little bee-eater; Little bittern; Little black cormorant; Little blue heron; Little bronze cuckoo; Little brown bustard; Little bunting; Little bustard;
The species — several birds, mussels, two species of fish and the Little Mariana fruit bat last seen in Guam in 1968 — have been listed as endangered for decades, according to the U.S. Fish ...
The tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) is a small songbird from North America, a species in the tit and chickadee family ().The black-crested titmouse, found from central and southern Texas southward, [2] was included as a subspecies but now is considered a separate species, Baeolophus atricristatus.