estrildid

Etymology

From translingual Estrildidae.

noun

  1. (zoology) Any weaverbird of the family Estrildidae.
    Estrildids and ploceids are clearly different in courtship posture, clutch size, egg coloration, pattern in mouth of the young, and mode of begging of the young. 1968, Breviora, numbers 280-309, page 50
    Marschall and Prinzinger (1991) subjected five species of estrildids to the following calculation from laboratory measurements under different T_A: O₂ consumption, CO₂ production, RMR, TNZ, conductance and T_B. 1996, Gordon L. Maclean, Ecophysiology of Desert Birds, page 100
    The estrildids are all monogamous (forming long-term or life-long pair bonds) and exhibit biparental care. 2008, James L. Goodson, Chapter 1: Nonapeptides and the evolutionary patterning of sociality, page 8

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