Meanings of perching bird in English

She perched on the stile as light as a perching bird, and drew her lithe figure on one side to make room for Paul.

The visitor next approaches the varieties of the family known as the tooth-beaked perching birds.

The perching birds would therefore have arisen by later adaptations after the power of flight had been evolved.

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.

"There is," says Dr. Woodward, "a typical bird's 'merrythought' between the wings, and the hind leg is exactly that of a perching bird."