Sentences with phrase «of blackcap»

At 45 - 65 ft, divers can find small schools of blackcap basslets close to or under the overhangs.

Not exact matches

So the scientists caught blackcaps when the birds returned to Germany in the spring and sequenced short stretches of their genomes called microsatellites.

Whether blackcaps will eventually diverge into different species depends on the fitness of offspring from crosses between northwest - and southwest - migrating birds, says evolutionary biologist Darren Irwin of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada.

They trapped birds from 14 populations of the European blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla, pictured), a warbler that spends summer in...