reed-bird

  • 81reedbird — noun 1. small European warbler that breeds among reeds and wedges and winters in Africa • Syn: ↑sedge warbler, ↑sedge bird, ↑sedge wren, ↑Acrocephalus schoenobaenus • Hypernyms: ↑Old World warbler, ↑true warbler …

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  • 82bobolink — n. Rice bird, rice bunting, reed bird, butter bird, skunk bird, skunk blackbird, Bob o Lincoln, Robert o Lincoln, Bob lincoln, bob link (Dolichonyx orizyvorus) …

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  • 83Reedbird — Reed bird (r?d b?rd ), n. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) The bobolink. (b) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera {Sch[oe]nicola} and {Eurycercus}; called also {reed babbler} …

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  • 84bobolink —   n. songbird, also called reed bird, rice bunting, and skunk bird …

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  • 85anseriform — ▪ bird order Introduction  any of the 150 species comprising the bird order Anseriformes, which comprises the ducks (duck), geese (goose), and swans (swan) (family Anatidae) and the screamers (the three species of family Anhimidae). Anatidae… …

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  • 86cuculiform — ▪ bird order Introduction    any member of a cosmopolitan group of birds (bird) containing two very distinct families, the cuckoos (cuckoo) (Cuculidae) and the hoatzin (Opisthocomidae). Family Cuculidae is the much larger group, containing about… …

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  • 87Furnariidae — ▪ bird family       bird family, order Passeriformes, containing about 220 species in nearly 60 genera, limited in distribution to Central and South America. This is one of the most diverse bird groups, with many body plans and popular names.… …

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  • 88parrotbill — ▪ bird also called  crow tit    any of several species of small to medium titmouselike birds (bird), mostly brown and gray with soft, loose plumage and distinctive strongly arched, parrotlike bills. They live in brushy grasslands of Central and… …

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  • 89reedling — /reed ling/, n. Brit. Dial. the bearded tit. [1820 30; REED + LING1] * * * ▪ bird also called  Bearded Tit        (species Panurus biarmicus), songbird often placed in the family Panuridae (order Passeriformes) but of uncertain relationships (see …

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  • 90List of extinct birds — This page refers only to birds that have gone extinct since the year 1500 A.D./C.E. and usually were subject to scientific study while alive.Since 1500, over 190 species of birds have become extinct, and this rate of extinction seems to be… …

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