What's the difference between yellowammer and yellowhammer?
Yellowammer
Definition:
(n.) See Yellow-hammer.
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Yellowhammer
Definition:
(n.) A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark.
(n.) The flicker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Species whose lower brain areas were larger relative to their higher brain areas, and can produce only a handful of syllables or notes in their songs, include the tree pipit, the sand martin and the yellowhammer.
(2) How to spot them Part of a group known as perching birds, or passerines, yellowhammers will often be found singing on tops of hedges, trees or fence posts.
(3) Skylarks, yellowhammer, linnets and stone curlews are among the species the RSPB is most worried would suffer from the loss of set-aside.
(4) Austrian pianist Carl Czerny, a pupil of Ludwig van Beethoven, thought that the famous opening phrase of Beethoven's 5th Symphony was inspired by the yellowhammer's song.
(5) Yellowhammers are also known by a variety of other names including yellow amber, yellow bunting, yellow ring and scribble lark.
(6) It’s good for me, good for the wildlife, good for everything.” He lists the songbirds he finds on his land: blue tits, yellowhammer, blackbirds.
(7) If you hear a bird that seems to be saying: "A little bit of bread and no cheese" then it's a yellowhammer.
(8) The colouring of the yellowhammer makes it a striking bird.
(9) These include the linnet , Dartford warbler , stonechat , meadow pipit , skylark , goldfinch , bullfinch, hedge sparrow , grey partridge and yellowhammer .
(10) Where they live Yellowhammers feed on seed and grain and, therefore, like arable farmland with hedges, bushes and other vegetation.
(11) Although yellowhammers eat mainly seed and grasses, they will also eat insects, including mayflies, grasshoppers, lacewings, worms and snails.