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snowbird
noun
A bird, Junco hyemalis, the dark-eyed junco.
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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.
He is likely making his way along the Raritan now, en route to the Delaware — en route, eventually, to Naples, Florida, which he expects to reach around mid-February, a snowbird arriving unfashionably late.
But for sheer hockey gravitas, there is the new Atlantic Division: the Montreal Canadiens, the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit, Boston, Buffalo and the Ottawa Senators, and for all their snowbird fans in the Sunshine State, the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay.
Mr. Ryan introduced his mother as a snowbird who lived part of the year "just down the road over near Lauderdale".
Mr. Manzola, 71, a retired electrician who teaches bocce to senior center participants, said the current administration, while supporting women as members, has been "largely absentee" — its president is a Florida snowbird — and when that happens, "the loudest, most obnoxious voices take over".
This barrier-island city and snowbird haven is hundreds of miles from the nearest land befouled by the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon platform and the epic gusher it left behind.
The Floating Pool Lady is no snowbird, off to Florida the moment the city turns into a backdrop that Currier and Ives would have loved.
He added day-care centers at the Bank Atlantic Center to make it easier for families to attend games, and teamed up with Brett to sell "snowbird" plans that include tickets to Panthers and Nets games.
Golf The first week of February traditionally marks the beginning of prime golf season in snowbird retreats like Florida, California and Arizona.
We got a good dose of Simon and Garfunkel during car journeys to destinations such as Warwick Castle, too, as well as frequent plays of a Country Classics compilation that was probably bought in a petrol station somewhere for 59p, yet has stayed with me forever, because it included Anne Murray's beautiful song Snowbird.
When you're in your forties and you spend your winters in the south, all of a sudden you're a snowbird.
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