Medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter.
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Examples for "snowbird "
Examples for "snowbird "
1 As I enter the woods the slate-colored snowbird starts up before me and chirps sharply.
2 The little black-headed snowbird , Thurber's junco, is the most common of all the Tahoe birds.
3 One snowbird nestled close to her heart and another put its bill to her lips.
4 And she was off over the hills with almost the lightness and swiftness of a snowbird .
5 The trees, it seemed to him, were murmuring their disapproval of such things as snowbird hunts.
1 This would be at the height of the incursion, especially of fieldfare and redwing.
2 Then there is the fieldfare , which we in Ireland see arriving in flocks during winter.
3 Winter visitors like fieldfare and redwing are able to find most of their food in the wider countryside.
4 She neither shrieked nor fainted; but no poor January fieldfare was ever colder, no ice-house more dank with perspiration, than she was then.
5 A great fieldfare rises, like a lesser pigeon; fieldfares often haunt the verge of woods, while the redwing thrushes go out into the meadows.
1 Turdus pilaris , Though a percher by day, roosts on the ground.
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