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Meanings of Insessores in inglés

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"
        Examples for "percher"
        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
        4
        He tells us the young are known as branchers or perchers.
        The Irish Times
        5
        There are two families, however, of perchers, those that call and the song-birds.
        Stories of California
        1
        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...
        4
        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
        5
        "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