tiny bird

Wren or hummingbird

A tiny bird is any small bird species, used affectionately or descriptively for sparrows, wrens, finches, hummingbirds, and the like.

The phrase emphasizes smallness and often carries a note of tenderness or vulnerability: A tiny bird landed on the windowsill.

She held the tiny bird gently in her cupped hands.

Related

flutter · feathers · light as a feather · nest · flew the nest · delicate · tweet · perch · pecking order · songbird · wings · wing span · beak · fragile · fledgling · warbler · chickadee · pip

Opposites
size

tiny birdostrich

Largest living bird

large bird · eagle · condor · albatross · emu

creature type/scale

tiny birdelephant

Tusked gray giant

whale · blue whale · dinosaur · mammoth · giant

Family

tiny, bird, tinier, tiniest, birds, birdie, birdies

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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G