verdin

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See also: Verdin and verdín

English

A verdin
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Etymology

Unknown. Compare Spanish verdino (bright green), French verdin (yellowhammer).

Noun

verdin (plural verdins)

  1. 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.

Synonyms

  • (Auriparus flaviceps): goldtit (apparently obsolete)

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French

Noun

verdin m (plural verdins)

  1. leafbird

Piedmontese

Adjective

verdin

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Turkish

Verb

verdin

  1. second-person singular indicative simple past of vermek