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  • noun Plural form of phainopepla.

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Examples

  • Western bluebirds and phainopeplas thrive on the poisonous-to-us fruits of the oak mistletoe.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • Western bluebirds and phainopeplas thrive on the poisonous-to-us fruits of the oak mistletoe.

    SFGate: Top News Stories home@sfchronicle.com (Joe Eaton 2010

  • The pyracantha shrub was alive with birds: American robins, cardinals, mountain bluebirds, bridled titmice, mockingbirds, phainopeplas, hermit thrushes, a Crissal thrasher, cedar waxwings and a varied thrush.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • The pyracantha shrub was alive with birds: American robins, cardinals, mountain bluebirds, bridled titmice, mockingbirds, phainopeplas, hermit thrushes, a Crissal thrasher, cedar waxwings and a varied thrush.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • • In the bosques, watch for phainopeplas and pyrrhuloxias.

    unknown title 2009

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