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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.)






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"Snowbird" Quotes from Famous Books



... fair as frescoes be Among the shrines of Italy, These lights and shadows are, Impalpable in gray and green Upon the hills afar And the gold westering sun between. The music! Hark! Oh, an it be no rapturous lark, Yet has the lesser chant The blessedness of song. The snowbird mendicant Intones ...
— Ballads of Peace in War • Michael Earls

... with a day of little things. If he can read only a word of one syllable in the book of nature, he will make the most of that. I read such a word the other morning when I perceived, when watching a young but fully fledged junco, or snowbird, that its markings Were like those of the vesper sparrow. The young of birds always for a brief period repeat the markings of the birds of the parent stem from which they are an offshoot. Thus, the young of our robins have speckled breasts, betraying their thrush kinship. ...
— Under the Maples • John Burroughs

... through the window-cracks. But you woke full of life and vigor,—you looked out into the whirling snowstorms without a shiver, and thought nothing of plunging through drifts as high as your head on your daily way to school. You jingled in sleighs, you snowballed, you lived in snow like a snowbird, and your blood coursed and tingled, in full tide of good, merry, real life, through your veins,—none of the slow-creeping, black blood which clogs the brain and lies like a weight on ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe



Words linked to "Snowbird" :   Plectrophenax, genus Turdus, junco, snowflake, bunting, genus Plectrophenax, thrush, Plectrophenax nivalis, Junco hyemalis, snow bunting, genus Junco, finch



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