Finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed.
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Examples for "Loxia curvirostra "
Examples for "Loxia curvirostra "
1 A cross-bill ( loxia curvirostra ) was killed last year in this neighbourhood.
1 The Mexican crossbill appeared to have little fear of the migrating Northern shrike.
2 The crossbill is fitted with a wonderful tool for tearing fir-cones to pieces.
3 Not a crossbill , not a jay, neither eagle nor hawk, showed against the azure fields of sky and snow.
4 A flock of crossbills went whistling overhead, coming from the same direction.
5 No, the Crossbill does not place his nest in any of these ways.
6 See also females of the Red Crossbill , Orchard Oriole, Scarlet Tanager, Summer Tanager.
7 The birds which remained were ravens, magpies, partridges, crossbills and woodpeckers.
8 Companies of redpolls and crossbills pass chirping through the thickets, busily seeking their food.
9 I suppose you've already seen my friends, Snipper the Crossbill and Piny the Grosbeak.
10 Yes, three-theCardinal, the Crossbill , and the Pine Grosbeak.
11 The red crossbills are capricious little visitors, it is true, but by no means uncommon.
12 A great flock of crossbills swooped down into the spruces, and stopped whistling in their astonishment.
13 In November a flock of 12 crossbills visited European larch trees beside our house for several weeks.
14 The Crossbill is included in Professor Ansted's list, and only marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark.
15 This bird is called the American Crossbill .
16 And, where the crossbills came, this year
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