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Meanings of percher in English

A bird with feet adapted for perching (as on tree branches); this order is now generally abandoned by taxonomists.

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Examples for "Insessores"
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She perched on the stile as light as a perching bird, and drew her lithe figure on one side to make room for Paul.
Despair's Last Journey
2
The visitor next approaches the varieties of the family known as the tooth-beaked perching birds.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
3
The perching birds would therefore have arisen by later adaptations after the power of flight had been evolved.
Hormones and Heredity / A Discussion of the Evolution of Adaptat...
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The perching birds are subdivided into five families: the Wide-gaping; the Slender-Beaked; the Toothed-Beaked; the Cone-Beaked; and the Climbers, or Scansores.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
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"There is," says Dr. Woodward, "a typical bird's 'merrythought' between the wings, and the hind leg is exactly that of a perching bird."
The Story of Evolution
Usage of percher in English
1
Turdus pilaris, Though a percher by day, roosts on the ground.
The Natural History of Selborne
2
Though a percher by day, roosts on the ground.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
3
It would sometimes take refuge in a bush, when the lark, not being a percher, would alight upon the ground beneath it.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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He tells us the young are known as branchers or perchers.
The Irish Times
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There are two families, however, of perchers, those that call and the song-birds.
Stories of California
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They do not seem to be climbers, but perchers.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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The highest class of birds is the "perchers," and many friends of yours belong to this.
Stories of California
8
The perchers are less widely distributed.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
9
Ned Percher at once volunteered to go, and soon he was speeding for the captain's house by a short-cut through the field.
Rod of the Lone Patrol
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Thus, by the time Ned Percher arrived, with Rod close at his heels, the bride was almost in a state of nervous collapse.
Rod of the Lone Patrol
11
"Percher Bandy?" he said, a bit dizzily.
On Stranger Tides
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He quotes a Colonel Hawker who records in his diary for May 12th, 1831, an unprecedented bag of perchers.
The Irish Times
Percher through the time