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Redpoll   Listen
noun
Redpoll  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
Any one of several species of small northern finches of the genus Acanthis (formerly Aegiothus), native of Europe and America. The adults have the crown red or rosy. The male of the most common species (Acanthis linarius) has also the breast and rump rosy. Called also redpoll linnet.
(b)
The common European linnet.
(c)
The American redpoll warbler (Dendroica palmarum).






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"Redpoll" Quotes from Famous Books



... for the dog. But not a sound is heard. A flock of snow buntings pass high above us, uttering their contented twitter, and their white forms seen against the intense blue give the impression of large snowflakes drifting across the sky. I hear a purple finch, too, and the feeble lisp of the redpoll. A shrike (the first I have seen this season) finds occasion to come this way also. He alights on the tip of a dry limb, and from his perch can see into the valley on both sides of the mountain. He is prowling about for chickadees, no doubt, a troop of which I saw coming ...
— The Writings of John Burroughs • John Burroughs



Words linked to "Redpoll" :   Carduelis hornemanni, genus Carduelis, finch, Carduelis, Carduelis flammea



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