Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several sparrowlike birds of the genera Calcarius and Rhynchophanes of North America and Eurasia, having brownish plumage and long-clawed hind toes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, a bird of the genus Centrophanes (or Calcarius): same as
lark-bunting , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (
Calcarius Lapponicus ), the chestnut-colored longspur (Calcarius ornatus ), and other species, inhabit the United States.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A specific type of bird, of the genus
Calcarius ; it has a long claw on the hind toe of each foot.
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Examples
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Two bird species are unique to the shortgrass prairies east of the Rockies, the mountain plover and McCown's longspur.
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Lap-longspur, Snowbird, Shorelarks, and Pipits are here soaring and singing, or among the barren rocks are Ptarmigan in garments that are painted in the patterns of their rocks.
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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For recordings of bird songs, call 612-673-7800, and when prompted press the following four-digit numbers: 1239 blue grosbeak 1240 blue jay 1241 green heron 1242 Lapland longspur
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Paging through the guide books, Lanny, Pete and I decided that the mystery bird was a Lapland longspur.
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