waxbills

Red-beaked waxbills spooked away in a straggled whir of wings.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

I took Lisa, and we hid down by the river and let the peaceful constancy of it—the plodding-sheep clouds and the sky mirrored in its green depths; the bright blurred wings and chirrups of red bishops, waxbills, and pied and malachite kingfishers—shut away the hurtful echoes.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Red-beaked waxbills spooked away in a straggled whir of wings.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

I took Lisa, and we hid down by the river and let the peaceful constancy of it—the plodding-sheep clouds and the sky mirrored in its green depths; the bright blurred wings and chirrups of red bishops, waxbills, and pied and malachite kingfishers—shut away the hurtful echoes.

Rainbow’s End Lauren St John 2007

Now everywhere the trees are alive with parrots and cockatoos -- the mulgas skimming by in green flocks, the parrot-cockatoos in grey, the Major Mitchells in pink -- and it is not possible for the eye to follow all the arrivals and departures, the plovers, the eagles, crows, the harlequin colours of the blue-bonnets, the little waxbills, the ring-necks and the herons.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

The same treatment suits the African waxbills, many of which are extremely beautiful, the crimson-eared waxbill or "cordon-bleu" being one of the most lovely and frequently imported.

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

Then the scared birds came back: the waxbills, and love-birds, and finches, and sparrows darted in and out among the bushes, and the partridge, and quail, and francolin ventured down to drink.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897