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For instance, over 40 species of exquisite honeycreeper songbirds ultimately evolved from a single finch-like ancestor.

Robert J. Cabin: World's Most Unique and Endangered Forest Needs Our Help Robert J. Cabin 2011

For instance, over 40 species of exquisite honeycreeper songbirds ultimately evolved from a single finch-like ancestor.

Robert J. Cabin: World's Most Unique and Endangered Forest Needs Our Help Robert J. Cabin 2011

The palila (Psittirostra bailleui), an endangered finch-like bird, specializes on mamane trees that occur in dry forest habitats.

Hawaii tropical dry forests 2007

This combined with small finch-like bird this morning that kept flapping at the window, and stopping several times to grip at the mesh screen and look inside.

tweet jlundberg 2006

The AOU retains the Bannaquit as the only member of the Coerebidae, but the most recent evidence associates it with a group of tanager- or finch-like birds that build domed nests, including grassquits probably the closest to the bananaquit, the Orangequit of Jamaica, West Indian "bullfinches" and the Galapagos finches.

languagehat.com: BANANAQUIT. 2005

The various finches and finch-like birds form an exceedingly large group and comprise perhaps the most popular of foreign aviary birds.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

Peering among the trees and houses, I presently focussed my field-glass upon a small, finch-like bird whose coat was striped with gray and brown, and whose face, crown, breast, and rump were beautifully tinged or washed with crimson, giving him quite a dressy appearance.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

A few minutes later I heard a vigorous and musical chirping in the pine bushes, and, turning aside, found a flock of small, finch-like birds.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

Jack's disappointment was a little softened by his amusement, and they resumed their tramp, rising higher and higher as they kept up a diagonal course along the mountain slope; but the difficulties in the way, and the caution requisite in passing through what they felt to be a dangerous enemy's land, made the progress slow, and after a time they seated themselves for a rest upon one of the many moss-grown masses of lava rock they passed, beneath an umbrageous tree, in which a flock of tiny finch-like birds were twittering, and once more looked around.

Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy George Manville Fenn 1870

The photo above is of an indigo bunting (the gorgeous blue bird) and a sparrow (I think, the beak doesn’t look finch-like) that I’m having trouble identifying on my laptop screen this morning.

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