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Meanings of percher in английском

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

        Usage of percher in английском
        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
        6
        They do not seem to be climbers, but perchers.
        The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
        7
        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
        10
        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
        12
        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