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- noun Plural form of
fieldfare .
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Examples
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But there was a rise in countryside birds such as fieldfares, yellowhammers, redwings and bullfinches, which are normally found in fields, farmland trees and hedgerows, the charity said.
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Together with relatively common species such as fieldfares and redwings, there have been invasions of seed-eaters such as siskins, reed buntings and yellowhammers.
Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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The day was ideal for the birds I'd seen: a fine harvest of bright red berries for the fieldfares and clear skies with perfect visibility for the hunting eyes of the raptors.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge Paul Evans 2010
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I'd heard fieldfares in a tall hedge making that strange conspiratorial hissing call to each other and, as their arrival from the north is such a signature event for autumn proper, I thought I'd wander over and pay my respects.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge Paul Evans 2010
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He had also seen fieldfares foraging in his garden.
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The redwings, fieldfares and blackbirds which dived in from Scandinavia to join the stay-at-home thrush tribes always rifled through the holly trees here.
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Soon the fieldfares and redwings will come in to share the bounty and the Washes will play home to great flocks of yellow-beaked swans that have forsaken the tundra of Russia for the relative warmth of the Fens.
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I look out from my desk window to a stand of tall ashes in whose bare waving tops dozens of fieldfares perch for hours and roost each winter.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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I look out from my desk window to a stand of tall ashes in whose bare waving tops dozens of fieldfares perch for hours and roost each winter.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Soon the fieldfares and redwings will come in to share the bounty and the Washes will play home to great flocks of yellow-beaked swans that have forsaken the tundra of Russia for the relative warmth of the Fens.
Archive 2007-10-14 2007
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