Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cirl-bunting .
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- noun The
cirl bunting
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Examples
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If a cirl looks like Susan Biyle I am probably not going to ask her if she fancies a drink and what does she think is the solution to Palastine or global warming or even if she would rather see the latest Terminator film or that one with Cantona.
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In certain localities in the south of England the cirl-bunting (_E. cirlus_) is also a resident; and in winter vast flocks of the snow-bunting (_Plectrophanes nivalis_), at once recognizable by its pointed wings and elongated hind-claws, resort to our shores and open grounds.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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Early in the morning I listened to a cirl-bunting singing merrily from a bush close to the George and
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Here I saw a pretty thing: a cock cirl-bunting, his yellow breast towards me, sitting quietly on a large bush of these same brilliant berries, set amidst a mass of splendidly coloured hazel leaves, mixed with bramble and tangled with ivy and silver-grey traveller's-joy.
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The only choristers in these natural fanes were the robins and the small lyrical wren; but on passing through the rustic village of Wolverton I stopped for a couple of minutes to listen to the lively strains of a cirl-bunting among some farm buildings.
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Throughout that district, where the fields are small, and the trees big and near together, he has the cirl-bunting's habit of perching to sing on the tops of high hedgerow elms and oaks.
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They have already reported seeing species like dippers, goosanders, little egrets, snipe, cirl buntings and merlins.
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Endangered songbird's numbers rise 25% farming, reintroduction scheme and natural reserve boosts cirl bunting
WN.com - Articles related to After IT, it's decade of infrastructure in India: Kamal Nath
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Britain's rarest farmland bird, the cirl bunting, is back from the brink of extinction.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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I haven't seen one, and don't know how they compare to your cirl bunting.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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