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Species of European bunting
Answer for the clue "Species of European bunting ", 12 letters:
yellowhammer
Alternative clues for the word yellowhammer
- Bird with the "a little bit of bread and no cheese" song
- Common European bunting
- European bunting the male being bright yellow
- A European bunting
- Singer in colourful clobber
- European bird - Orwell mayhem
- European bunting
- Bird with a call supposed to sound like "a little bit of bread and no cheese"
- Bird's fearful with manual tool
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 ...
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.