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  • noun Plural form of bobolink.

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Examples

  • There we are not called bobolinks and the people of the South never listen for our songs.

    Stories of Birds Lenore Elizabeth Mulets

  • I actually believed that the birdsthe larks, bobolinks, blackbirds, and swallows that Bonnie, a nature buff, once pointed out as they bopped around in the treeswere talking up a storm.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • The aim of the planter was to harvest the rice before the arrival of rice-eating bobolinks, or rice birds.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • I actually believed that the birdsthe larks, bobolinks, blackbirds, and swallows that Bonnie, a nature buff, once pointed out as they bopped around in the treeswere talking up a storm.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • I actually believed that the birdsthe larks, bobolinks, blackbirds, and swallows that Bonnie, a nature buff, once pointed out as they bopped around in the treeswere talking up a storm.

    Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

  • When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks, and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

    Local authors 2005

  • When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, bobolinks, and thrushes; as little did I know what sublime mornings and sunsets I was buying.

    Lance Mannion: 2005

  • Like bobolinks, lazuli buntings, mountain plovers and a few others.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

  • The trees were full of birds: bobolinks, and cat-birds, and yellow-hammers, and golden robins, and sometimes a thrush, for the afternoon was wearing late.

    The White Rose Road 1995

  • Here the bobolinks were sojourning -- visitors from

    The Black Phantom

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