verdin
English edit
Etymology edit
Unknown.[1] Compare Spanish verdino (“bright green”), French verdin (“yellowhammer”).
Noun edit
verdin (plural verdins)
- A small, yellow-headed passerine bird, Auriparus flaviceps, endemic to desert areas of the southwestern United States, that is the only species of family Remizidae found in the New World.
- 2000, Kenn Kaufman, Verdin, Steven J. Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus (editors), A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, University of California Press, Revised and Updated Edition, page 422,
- Tiny and rather plain, the Verdin seems quite unremarkable at first sight.
- 2005, Cathryn Wise-Gervais, “Verdin”, in Troy E. Corman, Cathryn Wise-Gervais, editors, The Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas, University of New Mexico Press, page 390:
- Verdins are yellow-faced desert-dwellers that are commonly encountered in southern Arizona. […] Although primarily insectivorous, Verdins will also readily consume nectar, which they obtain by piercing tubular flowers or by visiting hummingbird feeders.
- 2013, Edward C. Beedy, Edward R. Pandolfino, Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution, University of California Press, page 250:
- Desert-dwelling verdins, forage solitarily, in pairs, or in small groups by actively hopping from twig to twig while sounding their surprisingly loud tseet calls almost continuously.
- 2000, Kenn Kaufman, Verdin, Steven J. Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus (editors), A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, University of California Press, Revised and Updated Edition, page 422,
Synonyms edit
- (Auriparus flaviceps): goldtit (apparently obsolete)
References edit
- ^ “verdin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Noun edit
verdin m (plural verdins)
Piedmontese edit
Adjective edit
verdin
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Turkish edit
Verb edit
verdin
- second-person singular indicative simple past of vermek