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Passerine

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: passeriform bird.





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"Passerine" Quotes from Famous Books



... open country were the passerine birds, which Crozet mentions by the names of European birds, and also a quail (Coturnix Novae-Zealandiae) which ...
— Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjects • James R. McClymont


Words linked to "Passerine" :   true sparrow, Passeriformes, lyrebird, jenny wren, order Passeriformes, sparrow, broadbill, oscine bird, wren, scrub-bird, tyrannid, bird, scrub bird, scrubbird, oscine, nonpasserine


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