Usage of "perching bird"

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 "percher"

Turdus pilaris, Though a percher by day, roosts on the ground. 
 The Natural History of Selborne 

Though a percher by day, roosts on the ground. 
 The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 

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 

He tells us the young are known as branchers or perchers. 
 The Irish Times 

There are two families, however, of perchers, those that call and the song-birds. 
 Stories of California 

Usage 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. 
 Despair's Last Journey 

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 

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... 

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 

"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 

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Meanings of perching bird in English