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
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
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
Her team managed to find a rare white-crowned sparrow.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2011
Among the birds that tarry briefly with us in the spring on their way to Canada and beyond, there is none I behold with so much pleasure as the white-crowned sparrow.
From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by John Burroughs
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