(n.) A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
(n.) The yellow-hammer.
(n.) A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Pulitzer for fiction writing went to Donna Tartt for The Goldfinch, while Annie Baker won the prize for drama for her play set in a cinema, The Flick.
(2) I walked through flocks of goldfinches and starlings and watched mistle thrushes warble and wrens gobble berries.
(3) We watched the volunteers ringing and measuring goldfinches and warblers – a fascinating way to see wild birds very close up – then saw them fly off.
(4) Rights for The Goldfinch are currently under negotiation in the UK, according to the Bookseller .
(5) Dale, G., Goldfinch, M. E., Sibert, J. R., and Webb, J. K. G. (1975).
(6) At the start of the year, everyone was convinced Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch would win; things turned out to be not so predictable.
(7) I know we’re all supposed to be obsessed with The Goldfinch this summer, but I’m planning to reread The Secret History by Donna Tartt in the tub instead.
(8) The retailer is in a long-running dispute with Hachette about the price of e-books that has led to it delaying shipments of books from best selling authors including JK Rowling, Stephanie Meyer, David Foster Wallace, and Donna Tartt, author of this year's Pulitzer Prize winner, The Goldfinch.
(9) The experience led me to conclude that although we love to argue about books, acquire them, express strong opinions about The Goldfinch , etc, etc, more than ever we seem to be losing the knack of reading them.
(10) "The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America.
(11) Some birds in the UK have increased since the 1970s, namely stock doves, wood pigeons, goldfinch, greenfinch and jackdaws.
(12) Regulation of glycolysis was assessed in winter- and summer-acclimatized goldfinches (Carduelis tristis).
(13) The Goldfinch is due out in the US on 22 October this year, and according to a description from its publisher on Amazon.com will tell the story of a young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, who "miraculously" survives an explosion that kills his mother.
(14) The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt The Secret History author may not be prolific , but she's regular.
(15) David Goldfinch, Folkestone, Kent, parent and ex-Lib Dem voter The Liberal Democrats won only 8% of the seats in parliament – and both the larger parties were committed to tuition fees.
(16) Filled with long-tailed tits or goldfinches or cackling green woodpeckers, many are as thick as houses, a coalition of holly, rowan, hazel, dogwood and bramble, with oaks permitted to grow into grand trees.
(17) It would be a day of spiders’ webs, drifting thistledown shredded by goldfinches , ripening berries and lethargic bumblebees clinging to the last of the knapweed flowers .
(18) These include the linnet , Dartford warbler , stonechat , meadow pipit , skylark , goldfinch , bullfinch, hedge sparrow , grey partridge and yellowhammer .
(19) He was recently asked by the New York Times to review Donna Tartt 's new novel, The Goldfinch.
(20) Goldfinch-arm The specific ache you get from Donna Tartt's excellent but heavy hardback .
Grosbeak
Definition:
(n.) One of various species of finches having a large, stout beak. The common European grosbeak or hawfinch is Coccothraustes vulgaris.
Example Sentences:
(1) Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, was isolated from the liver of a passerine bird, Catharus fuscescens (veery), and from larval Ixodes dammini (tick) feeding on Pheucticus ludovicianus (rose-breasted grosbeak) and Geothlypis trichas (common yellowthroat).
(2) the blue throat (Luscinia svecica), the scarlet grosbeak (Erythrina erythrina) and the red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus).
(3) In July and August 1990, fecal samples from 2 slate-colored grosbeaks were collected from the rain forest of Ecuador.