Definition of passeriform bird Passeriform bird
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What does passeriform bird mean?
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| 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 helpless | ||
| passerine | ||
| bird 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 | ||
| true sparrow, 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, scrub bird, scrubbird 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 | ||
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