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European bunting the male being bright yellow
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yellowhammer
Alternative clues for the word yellowhammer
- Bird with a call supposed to sound like "a little bit of bread and no cheese"
- Common European bunting
- Large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail
- Chicken with batter — or a different bird
- Bird with the "a little bit of bread and no cheese" song
- Golden-winged flicker
Word definitions for yellowhammer in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A passerine bird, ''Emberiza citrinella'', of Eurasia which is mainly yellow in colour. 2 A native or resident of the American state of Alabama.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Yellowhammer can refer to: Yellowhammer| Emberiza citrinella , an Old World passerine bird An alternative name for the yellow-shafted flicker ( Colaptes auratus ), a North American woodpecker A nickname for state troops from Alabama , United States Yellowhammer ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail [syn: yellow-shafted flicker , Colaptes auratus ] European bunting the male being bright yellow [syn: yellow bunting , Emberiza citrinella ]
Usage examples of yellowhammer.
Hedgesparrows, coal-tits, wagtails, yellowhammers, robins, bullfinches, half the birdlife of Germany was pecking at her finger through the wooden bars.
Now it is curious that the sparrows and blackbirds, yellowhammers and greenfinches, that roost in the bushes, fly into the net and are easily captured, but the starlings--thanks to their different ways in daylight--always fly out at the top of the bush, and so escape.
If I should say that ganders grow also to be gelded, I suppose that some will laugh me to scorn, neither have I tasted at any time of suc tivits, king-fishers, buntings, turtles (white or grey), linnets, bullfinches, goldfinches, washtails, cherrycrackers, yellowhammers, fieldfares, etc.
At the moment we were entering the Papal Gate I saw the yellowhammers flying in a line over our heads.