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Snowbird   Listen
noun
Snowbird  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
An arctic finch (Plectrophenax nivalis syn. Plectrophanes nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.
(b)
Any finch of the genus Junco which appears in flocks in winter time, especially Junco hyemalis in the Eastern United States; called also blue snowbird. See Junco.
(c)
The fieldfare. (Prov. Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Snowbird" Quotes from Famous Books



... insects all summer long; but this is not all they do that is good. In fall, winter, and early spring, when Mother Earth has lost her brilliant green and rests in sombre browns or beneath ice and snow, the longspurs, Snow Bunting, Snowbird, and some of the sparrows that have remained with us are busily engaged in gathering for themselves a living. They hop and fly about from place to place searching for and picking up little seeds of grass, grain and weeds, of shrubs and trees, ...
— A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. • Various

... Moose Jaw, somewhere it was they stopped the train and all ran out in the snow where the white moon was shining down a valley of birch trees. It was the Snowbird Valley where all the snowbirds of Canada come early in the winter and make ...
— Rootabaga Stories • Carl Sandburg



Words linked to "Snowbird" :   genus Plectrophenax, Junco hyemalis, Turdus, thrush, snow bunting, genus Junco, dark-eyed junco, genus Turdus, junco, Plectrophenax nivalis, bunting, Turdus pilaris, Plectrophenax



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