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