Definition of oscine bird Oscine bird
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| oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus | ||
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| passeriform bird, passerine 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 | ||
| oscines, passeres, suborder oscines, suborder passeres two names for the suborder of typical songbirds | ||
| songbird, songster any bird having a musical call | ||
| honey eater, honeysucker Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | ||
| accentor small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia | ||
| lark any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing | ||
| wagtail Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks | ||
| pipit, titlark, lark a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage | ||
| finch any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds | ||
| honeycreeper small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | ||
| weaver finch, weaverbird, weaver finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests | ||
| old world flycatcher, true flycatcher, flycatcher any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing | ||
| thrush songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast | ||
| warbler a small active songbird | ||
| babbler, cackler any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | ||
| bird of paradise any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area | ||
| american oriole, new world oriole, oriole American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow | ||
| old world oriole, oriole mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black | ||
| starling gregarious birds native to the Old World | ||
| corvine bird birds of the crow family | ||
| australian magpie black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies | ||
| mimus polyglotktos, mockingbird, mocker long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | ||
| blue mockingbird, melanotis caerulescens mockingbird of Mexico | ||
| dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird, catbird North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing | ||
| mocking thrush, thrasher thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs | ||
| new zealand wren birds of New Zealand that resemble wrens | ||
| tree creeper, creeper any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet | ||
| nuthatch, nutcracker any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects | ||
| titmouse, tit small insectivorous birds | ||
| fairy bluebird, bluebird fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies | ||
| swallow the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" | ||
| swallow shrike, wood swallow Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow | ||
| tanager any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males | ||
| shrike any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals | ||
| bowerbird, catbird any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females | ||
| water ouzel, dipper small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom | ||
| vireo any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color | ||
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