Not so its near orthographic neighbour the dunnock, which may not be too well, numbers-wise, but is still with us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corrections and clarifications] Reference

The coldest December on record had driven them to warmer climes, and during the day I managed to miss goldfinch, greenfinch, dunnock and song thrush as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdwatch: Black redstart] Reference

It moved with the jerky progress of a mouse, a lovely bird full of bright character, like a runt dunnock, severely streaked but with a cocked tail and a beady eye, and just four inches long.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wuthering Heights] Reference

Only got one bird caught, a little dunnock who I quickly released unharmed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cottage Smallholder] Reference

So much for the reverend's exhortations to emulate the ways of the dunnock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

A dunnock regularly sings from the bushes on the railway line as I walk past.    From Wordnik.com.  [getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed] Reference

The female dunnock is the epitome of the player, which is why it's common to see two males and a female together.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Yummy mummy: Despite being dwarfed in size, the robin-sized dunnock climbs onto the back of the cuckoo in order to deposit a grub or other tasty morsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

In 1853, another Victorian gentleman, Reverend Frederick Morris, urged his parishioners to emulate the fidelity of a small hedge sparrow called the dunnock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

On the bird-feeders outside our kitchen window it's the same story: goldfinches, greenfinches and sparrows queue up to eat as many sunflower hearts as they can, while beneath the feeders robins, blackbirds and a solitary dunnock pick up anything they drop.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference

I think it was a dunnock that had been in that skull, but I didn’t know.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Around this time, one spring day, a dunnock’s tiny chalky skull appeared in front of me, seeming to come up from the earth and into my fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

The soil at the surface where the skull came from was a dunnock’s place; its beak would have needled it repeatedly, its feet minutely hoeing it over and over.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Now the winter had loosened the nest, unstitched it from the branches of the hedge, so that when I leaned in this time and cupped my hand around its cup, it came free like the dunnock’s head.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

She wore chough-black clothes but had armed herself against the coming squall with a plastic cape made from a cut-open fertilizer sack of translucent blue, the color of a Tiepolo sky or a dunnock’s egg.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Year on the Wing] Reference

Davies pointed out in his book on the dunnock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

I see it in the yellows of hawkweed, rock-rose, and birds'-foot-trefoil, in the innumerable specks of brilliant colour -- blue and white and rose -- of milk-wort and squinancy-wort, and in the large flowers of the dwarf thistle, glowing purple in its green setting; and I hear it in every bird-sound, in the trivial songs of yellow-hammer and corn-bunting, and of dunnock and wren and whitethroat.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference