Definition of bobolink in English:
bobolink
noun ˈbɒbəlɪŋkˈbɑbəˌlɪŋk
A North American songbird of the American blackbird family, with a bill resembling that of a finch. The male has black, buff, and white plumage.
长刺歌雀Dolichonyx oryzivorus, family Icteridae
- In breeding plumage, male bobolinks are mostly black, with a buff nape, white shoulder patches, and a white rump.
- Discover the hermit thrush in shady maple and hemlock groves, bobolinks in golden hay fields, northern water thrush in swamplands, and hawks migrating in autumn.
- Redbirds, bluebirds, robins, bobolinks, scarlet tanagers, Kentucky warblers, and orchard orioles strut and sing like the cast of a turn-of-the-century revue.
- I ended up seeing over 70 species and the highlights include a sandhill crane pair feeding along a road in farm field, a flock of male bobolinks competing with each other and of course an indigo bunting feeding below the finch feeders.
- ‘These prairie grasslands once teemed with wildlife like bison, elk, upland sandpipers and bobolinks,’ says LisaYee-Litzenberg.
- Grasslands and prairies support a number of polygynous species as well, including meadowlarks, bobolinks, dickcissels, lark buntings, and great-tailed grackles.
- And eggs from Glynwood, which is managed to protect the bobolinks.
- Aficionados of bobolink verse will also enjoy The Way to Know the Bobolink by Emily Dickinson.
- Wild turkeys can be spotted in the Poconos' open fields, bobolinks and grasshopper sparrows breed in the area's grasslands, and waterfowl, shorebirds, and herons wade in its wetlands.
- We still have a few fields where bobolinks stop on their way north.
Origin
Late 18th century (originally Bob o'Lincoln, Bob Lincoln): imitative of its call.
Definition of bobolink in US English:
bobolink
nounˈbɑbəˌlɪŋkˈbäbəˌliNGk
A North American songbird of the American blackbird family, with a bill resembling that of a finch. The male has black, buff, and white plumage.
长刺歌雀Dolichonyx oryzivorus, family Icteridae
- And eggs from Glynwood, which is managed to protect the bobolinks.
- I ended up seeing over 70 species and the highlights include a sandhill crane pair feeding along a road in farm field, a flock of male bobolinks competing with each other and of course an indigo bunting feeding below the finch feeders.
- Redbirds, bluebirds, robins, bobolinks, scarlet tanagers, Kentucky warblers, and orchard orioles strut and sing like the cast of a turn-of-the-century revue.
- In breeding plumage, male bobolinks are mostly black, with a buff nape, white shoulder patches, and a white rump.
- ‘These prairie grasslands once teemed with wildlife like bison, elk, upland sandpipers and bobolinks,’ says LisaYee-Litzenberg.
- Aficionados of bobolink verse will also enjoy The Way to Know the Bobolink by Emily Dickinson.
- We still have a few fields where bobolinks stop on their way north.
- Discover the hermit thrush in shady maple and hemlock groves, bobolinks in golden hay fields, northern water thrush in swamplands, and hawks migrating in autumn.
- Wild turkeys can be spotted in the Poconos' open fields, bobolinks and grasshopper sparrows breed in the area's grasslands, and waterfowl, shorebirds, and herons wade in its wetlands.
- Grasslands and prairies support a number of polygynous species as well, including meadowlarks, bobolinks, dickcissels, lark buntings, and great-tailed grackles.
Origin
Late 18th century (originally Bob o'Lincoln, Bob Lincoln): imitative of its call.