passeriform bird
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Related to passeriform bird: Perching birds
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| Noun | 1. |  passeriform bird - 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 helplessbird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings order Passeriformes, Passeriformes - largest order of birds comprising about half the known species; rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; the four suborders are Eurylaimi and Tyranni and Menurae and Oscines or Passeres oscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus sparrow, true sparrow - any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects lyrebird - Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shape scrub bird, scrubbird, scrub-bird - small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrub broadbill - small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide bills tyrannid - a passerine bird of the suborder Tyranni jenny wren, wren - any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects |
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