(n.) In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.
Example Sentences:
(1) We replicated DNA fingerprints of snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) and hypervariable restriction fragments of red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) to estimate the between-blot and between-lane components of variance in molecular weights of restriction fragments.
(2) To determine across-year patterns in plasma testosterone (T) and corticosterone (B) levels in free-living birds, we took blood samples in the same 2-week breeding period during 4 consecutive years from territorial male red-winged blackbirds.
(3) A blackbird is broadcasting its mellifluous song, a squirrel runs up a nearby tree and surprisingly, given that we are in central London, we can both hear a woodpecker knocking.
(4) Wednesday 2 June, afternoon I listen to the blackbird.
(5) The survey, which took place in June, showed that the blackbird is still the most frequent visitor to gardens, although it has declined slightly since last year, followed by the wood pigeon.
(6) The present work assessed the effects of changed daylength on dendritic morphology in RA in adult male red-winged blackbirds.
(7) Baby song thrushes were seen in less than 4% of gardens, compared with more than 5% last year, young blackbirds were spotted in 37% of gardens, down from 44% in 2011 and 19% of gardens had fledgling robins compared to 23% in the previous survey.
(8) Aniline p-hydroxylase, aminopyrine N-demethylase, and p-nitroanisole O-demethylase activities were measured in liver microsomes prepared from the red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) and compared with analogous preparations from rat.
(9) An 852-base pair region of the cytochrome-b gene was sequenced for the brood parasitic cowbirds and 20 additional taxa of the New World blackbirds (Icterinae).
(10) The close phylogenetic relationship between blackbird, tree sparrow and starling is verified by the hemoglobin sequence.
(11) And Elliott played Blackbird and I was stunned, and I thought maybe it was just me, but after he finished playing there was a hush, and then this warm applause filled the hall.
(12) With the adults spending longer away from the nest searching for food, the chicks may also have been more exposed to the chilly, wet conditions, in particular for species like blackbirds and thrushes whose nests are open to the elements.
(13) Estimated normal bounds for each of the 18 variables measured by commonly used clinical procedures are presented for reproductively quiescent northern bobwhites, European starlings, red-winged blackbirds, and common grackles.
(14) The fact that environmental noise has widespread effects is even shown in a study of urban blackbirds that found traffic noise rather than artificial light shifted their dawn chorus to an earlier time.
(15) As for me, lacking the voice of the blackbird, I have previously sung the praises of the staff at the Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg.
(16) In Experiment 2, critical ratios in blackbirds obtained with both continuous noise and pulsed noise were compared.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dough at Four & Twenty Blackbirds.
(18) But maybe you have: maybe you’ve glanced out of the window and seen there, on the lawn, a bloody great hawk murdering a pigeon, or a blackbird, or a magpie, and it looks the hugest, most impressive piece of wildness you’ve ever seen, like someone’s tipped a snow leopard into your kitchen and you find it eating the cat.
(19) Now I can sit out in the evening and hear the blackbird singing.
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Merle
Definition:
(n.) The European blackbird. See Blackbird.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cases of ununited fracture of the femoral neck, treated by a technique described by Brackett (1927) and modified by Merle d'Aubigné (1968) are reported.
(2) The scores of clinical results according to the Merle d'Aubigené and Postel scale were as follows: pain 4.48, walk 3.99, movements 4.02.
(3) At an average follow-up of four years, assessment by the Merle d'Aubigńe score showed 83% excellent or good results.
(4) Rats moving freely in their cages were injected into substantia nigra with bidistilled water, with NaCl solutions of various concentrations or with a multionic Merle's solution.
(5) Fifteen patients with 17 hips have been operated and followed-up and by using the Merle d'Aubigné evaluation there was an improvement of some 3--4 points in pain, walking, and total motion.
(6) The modified Merle d'Aubigne and Postel score averaged 5.3 for pain, 3.7 for walking ability, and 4.0 for range of motion (ROM) in patients with healed infections.
(7) Between October and December 1987, a total of 232 of these patients were examined and the results rated according to Merl d'Aubigne's classification: 166 (71%) were classified as very good or good, 49 (21%) as satisfactory, and 17 (7%) as unsatisfactory.
(8) These findings are interpreted as obvious gene dosis effects of the incompletely dominant merle gene which is used to produce a characteric harlequin dappling in many breeds of dogs.
(9) In January 1960, he played the first of his celebrated prison shows at San Quentin, where one of the inmates yelling him on was Merle Haggard, locked up on a burglary charge.
(10) So-called physiological saline solution (0-9% NaCl) was found to be most toxic and the multionic Merle's solution most suitable among the control fluids tested.
(11) Based on the well known surgical techniques of Juvara, Merle d'Aubigné and J.Böhler, a precedure was presented which has been clinically tested for 6 years.
(12) Luckily for Cash, he had already met June Carter (Obituary May 17 2003), who had co-written Ring Of Fire with Merle Kilgore.
(13) Note from Dr. Merle A. Sande--We have recently come to appreciate the fact that successful chemotherapy of opportunistic infections in patients with AIDS is akin to treatment of certain malignancies: In both instances, induction, followed by maintenance, therapy is required.
(14) Ike had grown up in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and was a gifted guitar-picker whose playing helped to shape the playing of such country greats as Merle Travis and Chet Atkins.
(15) Radiographic and clinical assessment before and after surgery according to Ficat, Arlet and Merle D'Aubigné.
(16) Of the 77 patients in whom follow-up was possible, 76 had results falling in the very good or good categories according to the Merle d'Aubigné scheme.
(17) In 44 dachshunds of both sexes, reared and held under identical conditions in order to investigate the effects of the merle gene, ophthalmologic examinations were performed.
(18) Of the 30 hips available for functional assessment using the Merle d'Aubigné scale, 16 were excellent, 10 good, 2 fair, 1 poor and 1 bad.
(19) Most of them improved one step higher in the evaluation scheme according to Merle d'Aubigne.
(20) The syndrome may have arisen in conjunction with instability of the merle locus.