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crossbills's Usage Examples:

Next we found a small flock of red crossbills but they remained too mobile for good views.

In the pines we had a small flock of 5 common crossbills.

Parking by the side of the road we saw a few crossbills flying over the pines.

Notice of a like visitation in 1593 is recorded, but of late it has become evident that not a year passes without crossbills being observed in some part or other of England, while in certain localities in Scotland they seem to breed annually.

252), that in 1251 the orchards of England were ravaged by birds, "pomorum grana, ' non aliud de eisdem pomis comedentes," which, from his description, "Habebant autem partes rostri cancellatas, per quas poma quasi forcipi vel cultello dividebant," could be none other but crossbills.

Depending mainly for food on the seeds of conifers, the movements of crossbills are irregular beyond those of most birds, and they would seem to rove in any direction and at any season in quest of their staple sustenance.

The birds of this genus - the crossbills - when their other characters are taken into account, prove to be intimately allied on the one hand to the grosbeaks (Pinicola) and on the other through the redpolls (Aegiothus) to the linnets (Linota) - if indeed these two can be properly separated.

Others have separated from it the crossbills, under the title of Loxiidae, but without due cause.

crossbills's Meaning':

finch with a bill whose tips cross when closed