song sparrow
a small emberizine songbird, Melospiza melodia, common in North America.
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How to use song sparrow in a sentence
The last of the maroon crabappleovates are song sparrows that trembleall at once.
Recalling a pandemic year with poetry and machine learning art | Seth Blanchard, Shikha Subramaniam, Leo Dominguez | April 22, 2021 | Washington PostOver near Neighbour Brown's fence they were peeping through the green leaves at the song-sparrow's nest.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonA song sparrow was singing out by the road, and the thin, sweet flutings of a Peabody came from the pasture.
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonHad I mistaken some other bird for the mountain song-sparrow?
Birds of the Rockies | Leander Sylvester KeyserAs he spoke, a song-sparrow near by poured out a flood of melody.
The Opened Shutters | Clara Louise Burnham
Suddenly a robin began to sing, then a song sparrow joined him, and then several orioles began talking at once.
A Girl Of The Limberlost | Gene Stratton Porter
British Dictionary definitions for song sparrow
a common North American finch, Melospiza melodia, having brown-and-white plumage and a melodious song
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