NOUN
- a bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists
How To Use perching bird In A Sentence
- Most perching birds stop singing regularly in late summer, but male wood-pewees keep up their chanting until the autumn migration.
- An analysis of more than 100 museum specimens shows that the curvature of claws on pterosaurs ' wing fingers was, on average, comparable to that of perching birds.
- Paleogene fossils also document diverse extinct branches of the neornithine tree, ranging from large pseudotoothed seabirds to giant flightless land birds to small zygodactyl perching birds.
- Hummingbirds have also been grouped with nightjars, mousebirds and perching birds (Passeriformes).
- When considering the perching birds oscine and suboscine the team found that despite having northern ancestral origins, 55% of New World oscine species now breed in South America, many of them in tropical habitats. Spero News
- He too agrees that the archaeopteryx is a perching bird, not a dinosaur like many others claim. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- In addition, ten perching bird and eight raptor species, including Mexican spotted owls and goshawks, sometimes nest within these structures.
- Most perching birds lay eggs speckled with reddish protoporphyrin spots toward the egg's blunt end. Tech and Science
- In fact most perching birds lay eggs that are mostly white except for a ring of reddish spots around the blunt end.
