passerine
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1. passerine - Noun
2. passerine - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the Passeres.
One of the Passeres.
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Description Female Albert's lyrebird The lyrebirds are large passerine birds, amongst the largest in the order.
Most passerine birds develop 12 tail feathers, although the superb lyrebird has 16. Jones, D. (2008).
For example, Culiseta melanura sucks the blood of passerine birds for preference and such birds are typically the main reservoir of the Eastern equine encephalitis virus in North America.
The leg arrangement of passerine birds contains a special adaptation for perching.
On oceanic islands (where mammals are often scarce), small birds —mainly passerine —may make up the bulk of its diet while elsewhere birds are only important food during a few weeks each summer when inexperienced fledglings abound.
Pterylosis or the feather tracts in a typical passerine Anatomy The foot of a passerine has three toes directed forward and one toe directed backward, called anisodactyl arrangement.