| has gloss | (noun) passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus
oscine, oscine bird |
| lexicalization | eng: oscine bird |
| lexicalization | eng: oscine |
| subclass of | (noun) 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
passeriform bird, passerine |
| Note: 3 other subclass(es) ommited in the following list |
| has subclass | (noun) any bird having a musical call
songbird, songster |
| has subclass | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar
honey eater, honeysucker |
| has subclass | (noun) small sparrow-like songbird of mountainous regions of Eurasia
accentor |
| has subclass | (noun) any of numerous predominantly Old World birds noted for their singing
lark |
| has subclass | (noun) Old World bird having a very long tail that jerks up and down as it walks
wagtail |
| has subclass | (noun) a songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage
pipit, lark, titlark |
| has subclass | (noun) any of numerous small songbirds with short stout bills adapted for crushing seeds
finch |
| has subclass | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar
honeycreeper |
| has subclass | (noun) finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests
weaver, weaver finch, weaverbird |
| has subclass | (noun) songbirds characteristically having brownish upper plumage with a spotted breast
thrush |
| has subclass | (noun) a small active songbird
warbler |
| has subclass | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae
babbler, cackler |
| has subclass | (noun) any of numerous brilliantly colored plumed birds of the New Guinea area
bird of paradise |
| has subclass | (noun) American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow
oriole, American oriole, New World oriole |
| has subclass | (noun) mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black
Old World oriole, oriole |
| has subclass | (noun) gregarious birds native to the Old World
starling |
| has subclass | (noun) birds of the crow family
corvine bird |
| has subclass | (noun) black-and-white oscine birds that resemble magpies
Australian magpie |
| has subclass | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds
mocker, Mimus polyglotktos, mockingbird |
| has subclass | (noun) North American songbird whose call resembles a cat's mewing
grey catbird, catbird, gray catbird, Dumetella carolinensis |
| has subclass | (noun) thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs
thrasher, mocking thrush |
| has subclass | (noun) birds of New Zealand that resemble wrens
New Zealand wren |
| has subclass | (noun) 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
creeper, tree creeper |
| has subclass | (noun) any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects
nutcracker, nuthatch |
| has subclass | (noun) small insectivorous birds
titmouse, tit |
| has subclass | (noun) fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies
fairy bluebird, bluebird |
| has subclass | (noun) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations
swallow |
| has subclass | (noun) Australasian and Asiatic bird related to the shrikes and resembling a swallow
wood swallow, swallow shrike |
| has subclass | (noun) any of numerous New World woodland birds having brightly colored males
tanager |
| has subclass | (noun) any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals
shrike |
| has subclass | (noun) any of various birds of the Australian region whose males build ornamented structures resembling bowers in order to attract females
bowerbird, catbird |
| has subclass | (noun) small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
dipper, water ouzel |
| has subclass | (noun) any of various small insectivorous American birds chiefly olive-grey in color
vireo |
| has subclass | (noun) brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the northern hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips
waxwing |
| has subclass | c/American blackbirds |
| has subclass | c/Baltimore Orioles postseason |
| has subclass | c/Blackbirds |
| has subclass | c/Bluebirds |
| has subclass | c/Orioles |
| has subclass | e/Illinois State Redbirds |