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/jˈɛləʊhˌæmɐ/
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NOUN
- European bunting the male being bright yellow
- large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail
How To Use yellowhammer In A Sentence
- Songbirds such as the linnet, yellowhammer, skylark and song thrush to name but a few, are fast disappearing in our gardens and countryside.
- All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
- In this country, unless the weather is severe, the birds frequent open country associating with redwings, blackbirds and yellowhammers.
- Snipe, red buntings, yellowhammers and even kingfishers are supposedly hereabouts.
- More than 2,600 linnets, 100 yellowhammers, 229 reed buntings and 1,200 skylarks have been recorded along with smaller numbers of brambling, tree sparrows and chaffinches. BBC News - Home
- The conventional plots also held more weed seeds, which are important to birds such as skylarks and yellowhammers.
- The adoption of intensive farming methods across Britain since the 1970s has put birds such as the skylark and the yellowhammer on the danger list, with numbers falling by 50% since 1977.
- It is like a yellowhammer with a grey and yellow head, and orange underparts. Times, Sunday Times
- Other birds facing tough times in Bradford include the house sparrow, the golden plover, the yellowhammer and the redshank.
- I have known a black-fishing expedition stopped because a "yellow yite," or yellowhammer, hovered round the gang when they were setting out. Auld Licht Idylls
