The highest class of birds is the "perchers," and many friends of yours belong to this. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)
State police and conservation officers arrived in cars and helicopters, gave the scene a once-over, asked the perchers to come down, but left, as in previous cases, without making any arrests. ❋ Matt Dellinger (2010)
Out of forty perchers eleven are missing — yellow oriole, yellow fig-bird (SPHECOTHERES), black-backed magpie, black-headed diamond-bird, helmeted friar-bird, silver-eye, and the blue, pied, shining, white-eared and spectacled flycatchers. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Trumpets and perchers blared, and the soldiers gave up their meager meals to stand to arms. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)
There are two families, however, of perchers, those that call and the song-birds. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)
The sparrows are perchers, grain-eaters, free-fliers, and singers; and they, of all birds, are the friends and neighbors of man. ❋ Dallas Lore Sharp (1899)
The same is true of the raptorial birds, or birds of prey, which are strong perchers and depend largely for their food supply on clutching their victims while on the wing. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Here is still another conundrum for the bird student: Why do the four-toed woodpeckers have two hind digits, despite the fact that they always clamber upward when they take their promenades on the boles and branches of the trees, whereas the agile little nuthatch, which glides upward or downward, as the impulse moves him, has only one rear toe and three in front, like the true perchers? ❋ Unknown (1896)
All birds by no means possess this particular muscle, but all the perchers have some muscular arrangement in the legs and toes that practically answers the same purpose. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Quite a number of species have only three toes, most of them among the walkers and waders, and none, I believe, among the true perchers. ❋ Unknown (1896)
In order that a bird may use his feet with the greatest dexterity in perching and flitting, his digits should be as free and movable as possible; and so we find that the toes of the perchers are usually cleft to the base, are long and slender, easily opened and closed, and possess the power to grasp an object firmly. ❋ Unknown (1896)
A bird keeper may keep for twenty years, feeding daily, but his hawks, owls and eagles, the perchers, waders, swimmers and upland game birds all fly from him in nervous fear whenever he attempts to handle them. ❋ William Temple Hornaday (1895)
Many of the genera of the perchers are peculiar to Australia; and the brush-like tongues of many species, formed for extracting the honey from flowers, have been classed amongst the Australian anomalies. ❋ John West (1840)
{270} In this wonderful manner do we find the crow partially invested with the united properties of all other birds, while in its own order, that of the incessores or perchers, it stands the pre-eminent type. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
So, also, if we take the typical group of the birds, the incessores or perchers, and look in it for its typical group, the conirostres, and seek there again for the typical family of that group, the corvidae, we may expect to find a very marked superiority in organization and character. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
The progressive method by which the young are introduced into life is very amusing: first, they emerge from the shaft with difficulty enough, and often fall down into the rooms below: for a day or so they are fed on the chimney-top, and then are conducted to the dead leafless bough of some tree, where, sitting in a row, they are attended with great assiduity, and may then be called _perchers_. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
They bring out their young about the middle or latter end of July: but as these never become perchers, nor, that ever I could discern, are fed on the wing by their dams, the coming forth of the young is not so notorious as in the other species. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
Door-drapers and kitchen-stool perchers should always be welcome, especially if they are the next generation cooks. ❋ Loren_os (2008)
a day or so they are fed on the chimney-top, and then are conducted to the dead leafless bough of some tree, where, sitting in a row, they are attended with great assiduity, and may then be called perchers. ❋ Various (1887)
a great pool as perchers, and so young and helpless, as easily to be taken by hand; but whether the dams ever feed them on the wing, as swallows and house-martins do, we have never yet been able to determine, nor do we know whether they pursue and attack birds of prey. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)
