Oscine in a sentence as a noun

] bird song evolution can also be understood as a response to natural selection, as when oscine passerine species in urban habitats raise the frequency of their song as a means to overcome traffic noise. Things like changes in the vocalisation can just be adjustments to the environment or simply due to sexual selection.

Oscine definitions

noun

passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus

adjective

of or relating to the songbirds