passeriform bird

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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 helplesspasserinebird - warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wingsorder 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 Passeresoscine, oscine bird - passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatussparrow, true sparrow - any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insectslyrebird - Australian bird that resembles a pheasant; the courting male displays long tail feathers in a lyre shapescrub bird, scrubbird, scrub-bird - small fast-running Australian bird resembling a wren and frequenting brush or scrubbroadbill - small birds of the Old World tropics having bright plumage and short wide billstyrannid - a passerine bird of the suborder Tyrannijenny wren, wren - any of several small active brown birds of the northern hemisphere with short upright tails; they feed on insects