"'There is a bird called the crossbill that makes its nest in the pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

"crossbill" with its deep crimson colour; and many others, equally bright and beautiful, enlivened the woods, either with their voice or their gaudy plumage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference

And that bird is called the crossbill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Reference

Saw a crossbill at the sunflower feeder this morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The redpolls abideth forever] Reference

The crossbill is fitted with a wonderful tool for tearing fir-cones to pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox Stories of Natural History] Reference

The red crossbill, a member of the finch family, is a rare bird in New England.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

Then she pointed to a picture of a red crossbill in the bird book she held open.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

Neither did Anton's crossbill, which dwelt in the stube, have a much happier fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference

Birds like the Scottish crossbill might survive if they can manage to fly to Iceland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Warming Imperils Species] Reference

Best guess compiled from three bird books seems to be an immature white-winged crossbill, not commonly a feeder bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raining] Reference

They ripen every year, and the lively little squirrel, as he is called, feasts upon them, as the crossbill does on the cones of the stone-pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

The last white-winged crossbill I saw there was in the process of being eaten by a peregrine a couple years ago and for some reason I haven't seen any since.    From Wordnik.com.  [dreaming back] Reference

One UK species, the Scottish crossbill, could face extinction, the RSPB warned.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

However, the crossbill cannot fly that far - certainly not across the North Sea.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The crossbill comes very often, and the green woodpecker's cry is quite familiar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch] Reference

He had knocked down a green-colored crossbill, of a species still unknown in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference

However, the crossbill cannot fly that far - certainly not enough across the North Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

The spokesman said preserving pine forests could be crucial to the survival of the crossbill.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

A male white-winged crossbill feeds on pine cones at Lake Ontelaunee during last year's invasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

White-winged crossbill: This crossbill wandered widely this past summer searching for extensive spruce cone crops.    From Wordnik.com.  [A DC Birding Blog] Reference

Birds under threat from climate change include the Scottish crossbill - the only species unique to the British Isles.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Similarly, both the German varieties of crossbill commonly begin to sing before losing the plumage characteristic of youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sexual Life of the Child] Reference

Sparrow-sized, the crossbill males are a bright red, the white-winged crossbill males are a deep pink with white on the wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Red crossbill: This crossbill comprises nine ecotypes in North America; each has cone (s) preferences related to bill size and shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [A DC Birding Blog] Reference

Susan isn't plugged in to the local birding network and didn't know about the crossbill invasion in Pennsylvania that's been occurring this winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

Apart from the Scottish crossbill and the snow bunting, the Arctic skua, Leach's petrel and the common scooter also face extinction by the end of the century.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

304 The red crossbill: research.amnh.org/ornithology/crossbills/.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goddess and the Bull] Reference

I. 113), and in a Latin poem of the Middle Ages we are told that "the crossbill hatches its eggs at Christmas and the young birds fly in full plumage at Easter" (539. 67.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

Need cleansing live crossbill.    From Wordnik.com.  [dreaming back] Reference

"The crossbill is now confined to the very north of Scotland.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

= White-winged crossbill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

Red crossbill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

White-winged crossbill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

Under ordinary conditions, no seed was found to germinate after passing through the turkey, hen, pigeon, crossbill, bullfinch, goldfinch, nutcracker, titmouse, and the duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seed Dispersal] Reference