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European bunting
Answer for the clue "European bunting ", 12 letters:
yellowhammer
Alternative clues for the word yellowhammer
- Species of European bunting
- Bird with the "a little bit of bread and no cheese" song
- Large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail
- Common European bunting
- Species of bunting
- Golden-winged flicker
- Bird's fearful with manual tool
- Bird with a call supposed to sound like "a little bit of bread and no cheese"
Word definitions for yellowhammer in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A band of yellowhammer , bright as celandines, fly between field and hedge. ▪ Like the yellowhammer , the foot and mouth virus is an aspect of wild nature, ungovernable and powerfully indifferent. ▪ To me at least the yellowhammer ...
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 ...
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.