Examples of longspur in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The longspur is a bird of wide horizons and short grass, a prairie bird. — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020 The bird will now be known as the thick-billed longspur. — Aj Willingham, CNN, 13 Aug. 2020 Many birders and researchers believe that renaming shouldn’t be limited to the longspur. — Hannah Thomasy, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2020 Sightings at Nauset Spit in Orleans included a Lapland longspur, 3 marsh wrens, 5 American pipits, 21 Savannah sparrows, a yellow-breasted chat, and 3 bobolinks. — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2019 Parker River National Wildlife Refuge: Among reports were four Northern shovelers, a Eurasian wigeon, a ruddy duck, a pectoral sandpiper, three American woodcocks, an Eastern phoebe, and a Lapland longspur. — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2019 At Duxbury Beach, there was a Lapland longspur and another horned grebe. — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2019

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