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Answer for the clue "Golden-winged flicker ", 12 letters:
yellowhammer

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The yellowhammer ( Emberiza citrinella ) is a passerine bird in the bunting family that is native to Eurasia and introduced to New Zealand , Australia , Uruguay , Brazil , Argentina , Chile , the Falkland Islands , South Africa , United States and Canada ...

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.