perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless
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passerine::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | passeriform bird |
| Type of | bird |
| Has types | broadbill, jenny wren, lyrebird, oscine, oscine bird, wren, true sparrow, tyrannid, scrub-bird, scrub bird, scrubbird, sparrow |
passerine:: | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of passerine
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This is especially useful for passerine birds that develop nocturnal lifestyles.
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The Motacillidae are a family of small passerine birds with medium to long tails.
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The thrushes are a group of passerine birds that occur mainly in the Old World.
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An endemic African family of six species of small, passerine-like, arboreal birds.
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This species a near passerine and is placed into the taxonomic family, Bucconidae.
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A large group of seed-eating passerine birds with a distinctively-shaped bill.
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A group of small, often colourful passerine birds restricted to the New World.
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The sparrows are one of the few passerine birds that engage in dust bathing.
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Cuculus species lay coloured eggs to match those of their passerine hosts.
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- Perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless
- Relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds
- A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. ...
- (Passerines) Perching and song birds.
- (of birds) with feet adapted to perching (technically, of a particular order of perching birds)
- More than half the birds in the world are in the order called Passeriformes. They are sometimes called perching birds, or, less accurately, songbirds. The name comes from the Latin name for the common House Sparrow Passer domesticus. ...
- A perching bird or songbird.
