Meaning | 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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Synonym | passeriform bird |
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Member of | Passeriformes, order Passeriformes | largest order of birds comprising about half the known species |
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Narrower | broadbill | small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills |
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lyrebird | Australian bird that resembles a pheasant |
oscine, oscine bird | passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus |
scrubbird, scrub-bird, scrub bird | small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub |
sparrow, true sparrow | Any of several small dull / dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects |
tyrannid | A passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni |
wren, jenny wren | Any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails |
Broader | bird | warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings |
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Spanish | paseriforme |
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Catalan | passeriforme |
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Adjectives | nonpasserine | relating to or characteristic of birds that are not perching birds |
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passerine | relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds |