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Adjective(1) relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds
Noun(1) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless(2) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch(3) most are songbirds(4) hatchlings are helpless

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(1) Extrapair paternity is widespread within passerine birds and is indicative of sexual selection.(2) The diversity of speckling is most pronounced in passerine birds (the perching or songbirds that make up 60 percent of all bird species).(3) The visual system of most bird species, including all passerine birds tested to date, is sensitive to UV wavelengths.(4) Cracraft shows an unresolved three-way split between oscines (which form the large majority of passerine birds), suboscines, and New Zealand wrens.(5) Falcons and cuckoos form a third segment of the gruimorphs; and, finally, the Piciformes and passerine birds are usually grouped together as a fourth segment.(6) The pied flycatcher is a small, hole-nesting, insectivorous passerine bird which usually is monogamous, but in which some 5-10% of the males may be polygynous.(7) The pied flycatcher is a small, migratory, passerine bird that is sexually dimorphic in color during the breeding season.(8) These animals include rodents, passerine birds and arthropods.(9) The bluethroat is a small passerine with moderate asynchronous hatching, typical of many passerine birds.(10) The pied flycatcher is a small Palearctic migrant passerine bird.(11) In a comparative study of passerine birds based on generalized least square models, we tested this hypothesis by exploring the interspecific relationship between overall brain size and repertoire size.(12) House sparrows are approximately 30-g passerine birds that are gregarious during and outside the breeding season.(13) The magpie is monogamous, territorial, sedentary, and relatively long-lived for passerine birds, with a well-described biology.(14) However, these model predictions cannot explain the observation that some small passerine birds u2018boundu2019 while hovering or during steep climbs.(15) We compared chromatic contrast (color used for short-range detection) of each pair of spider and flower to detection thresholds computed in the visual systems of both Hymenopteran prey and passerine bird predator.(16) The pied flycatcher is a small, migratory, singlebrooded passerine bird.