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- noun Plural form of
redpoll .
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Examples
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A similar nomadic lifestyle is found in small passerine seed-eating birds such as redpolls and crossbills (Loxia spp.) in the forest tundra.
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I've had evening grosbeaks in migration, hoary redpolls driven down from the arctic during harsh winters, Rufous-sided towhees tossing aside leaves like crazy people, in search of what I'm not entirely sure.
This App Is for the Birds Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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The excitement this winter has been over common redpolls, which come down from the far north, and resemble house finch except that most of their color is concentrated in a red cap.
Witness to a Live Wren-dition Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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We probably should be keeping an eagle eye on the flock, looking for hoary redpolls hiding amongst the common, but are not playing that game.
Redpolls not yet gone jhetley 2009
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The redpolls continue to eat us out of house and home.
Meanwhile, back at the penguins . . . jhetley 2009
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Had a whole flock of redpolls at the feeders this morning.
O Canada . . . jhetley 2009
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But no sign of the swarming masses redpolls, siskins, crossbills this morning.
The moving finger writes . . . jhetley 2009
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No sign of the redpolls yesterday or yet this morning.
Gray again, bird update jhetley 2009
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We had the largest collection of redpolls yet, side yard at the feeders and in the tree and on the ground.
Walking in the wet wild woods jhetley 2009
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Six or eight redpolls assaulting the feeder at dawn.
Brains are strange jhetley 2009
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