Sentence examples for longspur from inspiring English sources

Typical land and freshwater birds of the Arctic Zone are the redpoll, Lapland longspur, snowbird, wheatear, pipit, certain plovers and sandpipers, loons, rock ptarmigans, ducks, and geese.

The group includes grosbeaks, longspurs, cardueline finches, and chaffinches.

During the "great bird shower" of 1904 in Minnesota and Iowa, millions of sparrow-like Lapland longspurs fell from the night sky, most of them dead but some hitting the ground as snowballs that then "hatched" live birds in the morning sun.

The passengers passed remote islands in the Bering Sea and sailed by ash-spewing volcanoes, sea lions and Lapland longspurs.