white-crowned sparrow
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of white-crowned sparrow
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
Example Sentences
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She hears a chirp and immediately identifies it as a white-crowned sparrow.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
Tuesday, June 7 We spent most of last week poking around in the tundra, looking for white-crowned sparrow and Lapland longspur nests.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
By observing the behavior and movement of breeding songbird pairs, we were able to note the general vicinity of about 60 white-crowned sparrow and 60 Lapland longspur nests.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2011
Her team managed to find a rare white-crowned sparrow.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2011
Yes, I had stumbled into the summer home of the white-crowned sparrow, which on the Atlantic coast and the central portions of the American continent breeds far in the North.
From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)
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