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Snowbird

noun

Medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter. Synonyms: fieldfare, Turdus pilaris.

White Arctic bunting. Synonyms: Plectrophenax nivalis, snow bunting, snowflake.

Small North American finch seen chiefly in winter. Synonym: junco.

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"Snowbird" Quotes from Famous Books

... at once recognized it as belonging to the family of grosbeaks. A few days later I saw large numbers of them in the woods, on the ground, and in the trees. And still later, and on till February, they were very numerous on the Hudson, coming all about my house,—more familiar even than the little snowbird, hopping beneath the windows, and looking up at me apparently with as much curiosity as I looked down upon them. They fed on the buds of the sugar maples and upon frozen apples in the orchard. They were mostly young birds and females, colored very much like the common sparrow, with now and then visible ...

— Birds and Poets • John Burroughs

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