oscine bird

Noun
  1. Passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus (synset 101528361)
    is a type of: passeriform bird, passerine - 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
    subtypes:
    • songbird, songster - any bird having a musical call
    • honey eater, honeysucker - Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar
    • accentor - small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia
    • lark - any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing
    • wagtail - Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks
    • lark, pipit, titlark - a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage
    • finch - any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
    • honeycreeper - small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar
    • weaver, weaver finch, weaverbird - finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
    • flycatcher, old world flycatcher, true flycatcher - any of a large group of small songbirds that feed on insects taken on the wing
    • thrush - songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast
    • warbler - a small active songbird
    • babbler, cackler - any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae
    • bird of paradise - any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area
    • american oriole, new world oriole, oriole - American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow
    • old world oriole, oriole - mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black
    • starling - gregarious birds native to the Old World
    • corvine bird - birds of the crow family
    • australian magpie - black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies
    • mimus polyglotktos, mocker, mockingbird - long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
    • blue mockingbird, melanotis caerulescens - mockingbird of Mexico
    • catbird, dumetella carolinensis, gray catbird, grey catbird - North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing
    • mocking thrush, thrasher - thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
    • new zealand wren - birds of New Zealand that resemble wrens
    • creeper, tree creeper - any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet
    • nutcracker, nuthatch - any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
    • tit, titmouse - small insectivorous birds
    • bluebird, fairy bluebird - fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies
    • swallow - small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
    • swallow shrike, wood swallow - Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow
    • tanager - any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males
    • shrike - any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals
    • bowerbird, catbird - any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females
    • dipper, water ouzel - small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
    • vireo - any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color
    • waxwing - brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips
    belongs to: oscines, passeres, suborder oscines, suborder passeres - two names for the suborder of typical songbirds
    same as: oscine

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