passerine
percher
perching bird

Because of this, they are also known as 'perching birds'.

Perching birds use the feet to grip branches as we use our hands.

Then the benches became occupied - by perching birds.

Perching birds, or songbirds, are the most common birds on Earth.

Perching bird osteology, especially of the limb bones, is rather diagnostic.

This favorite type of winged visitor belongs to a category called the perching birds.

There are a number of Passeriformes (perching birds) called warblers.

It is a member of the order Passerine which makes it a perching bird.

He currently resides in the keeper's office at the Perching Bird House.

The Flamecrest is a small perching bird, resembling a warbler.

Perching birds have a tendon locking mechanism that helps them hold on to the perch when they are asleep.

The golden lancehead's diet consists mostly of perching birds.

In 1907, the Hawaiian Territorial Legislature passed a law to protect all native perching birds.

The first such feature to be noted was the supposed similarity between the foot of Archaeopteryx and that of modern perching birds.

Archaeopteryx possessed the same claw curvature of the foot to that of perching birds.

The muscles of perching birds allow the toes to pull inwards with some force but there are no strong muscles to open them up.

From Cardindals to Wrens, explore the different types of perching birds.

Myrmeciza is a perching bird genus in the family Thamnophilidae.

Malaria mainly affects birds in the order Passeriformes (perching birds).

It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.

One key adaptation of modern perching birds is the reversed, opposable first toe, or "hallux."

Passeriformes encompasses more than half of the known avian species which are known as perching birds.

Catalogue of the Passeriformes, or perching birds, in the collection of the British museum.

Commonly sighted perching birds include:

A sticky repellent can be applied to surfaces to temporarily repel perching birds from building ledges and statues.