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Definition of bellbird in English: bellbirdnounˈbɛlbəːdˈbelbərd 1A tropical American bird of the cotinga family, with a loud explosive call. Genus Procnias, family Cotingidae: four species Example sentencesExamples - The fourth point is that it has a very high diversity and good numbers of native birds, including tui, bellbird, weka, yellow-breasted tit, robin, rifleman, brown creeper, fantail, kereru, grey warbler, and silvereye.
- When a tui or a bellbird pops open a bud, all four petals spring back, and as the bird inserts its beak into the corolla to drink nectar, its head often brushes pollen onto the receptive stigma.
- Subtle enough to catch and lend fluency to the songs of crickets, frogs, cicadas and bellbirds, sometimes disappearing like an invisible songbird behind a static screen of notes.
- Soon we're hearing a frenzy of bellbirds - crow-size, white cotingas, that sound like cracked bells.
- In the same woods, we also saw the large saddleback and the bellbird, the former with a glossy black head and body and a bright chestnut ‘saddle’ across its back, the latter, olive green with a red eye and a loud, clear ringing call.
- Contrast this to the bellbird, a long-lived tropical bird in which individuals come to know one another well.
- A 1969 survey had turned up a dismal count of just 21 tuis and 24 bellbirds for the entire island.
2Any of a number of Australasian songbirds with a ringing call. ('New Zealand bellbird') a New Zealand honeyeater (Anthornis melanura, family Meliphagidae). the bell miner.See miner ('crested bellbird') an Australian whistler (Oreoica gutturalis, family Pachycephalidae). Example sentencesExamples - We lay for a while before starting breakfast, warm in our bags, savouring the view and at the same time listening to the donging reverberations of a bellbird calling his good-morning song.
- There is still the song of the bellbird and the other birds are still to be seen and heard, but not in such abundance.
- Last time that we walked the track we saw and/or heard bellbirds, fantails, chaffinches, greenfinches, grey warblers and a native pigeon.
- When you need to pause for breath look at the surrounding bush, listen to the birds and watch to see fantails, bellbirds, and native pigeons.
- We were entertained by the familiar voices of crested bellbirds and rufous songlarks, but a different voice soon became evident.
- In this area you may see the brown creeper, tomtit, robin, bellbird, rifleman, wood pigeon, falcon and kea.
- A bellbird's call, crystal clear, was the only intrusion.
- Along these roads are many walking tracks where native birds such as wood pigeons, bellbirds, weka and fantails can be seen and heard.
- As we walked we heard bellbirds in the trees and saw a silvereye quite close on a small shrub.
- Celebrate all that is distinctive. People come here to experience the so-called '100% pure’ New Zealand environment, and that includes special birds like the bellbird.
- There are still many native birds in the shrubland including bellbirds, kingfishers, silvereye and the hawk or kahu.
- There are signs of many birds such as the Major Mitchell cockatoos, mulga parrots, honeyeaters, crested bellbirds and many more.
- A bellbird called as we walked into the eucalypt forest.
- As you walk you have a good chance of seeing some native birds - brown creepers, bellbirds, grey warblers and fantails.
- He befriended native birds; his favourite a bellbird he named Oscar.
- The bush has abundant bird life, including the bellbird, tomtit, rifleman, wood pigeon and grey warbler.
- Resident ranger Maurice Puckett takes David Steemson on a visit with several hundred school children and explains how more spiders are evident, along with native cockroaches and bellbirds.
- Theirs isn't the honeyed call of New Zealand bellbirds but a harsher sound my bird field guide book describes as a sharp ‘jak jak jak’.
- The piercing call of a bellbird draws attention to a soundtrack of bush noises.
- It's not long before we hear the bellbirds that inhabit this end of the gardens.
Definition of bellbird in US English: bellbirdnounˈbelbərd 1A tropical American bird of the cotinga family, with loud explosive calls. There are wattles on the head of the male. Genus Procnias, family Cotingidae: four species Example sentencesExamples - A 1969 survey had turned up a dismal count of just 21 tuis and 24 bellbirds for the entire island.
- Subtle enough to catch and lend fluency to the songs of crickets, frogs, cicadas and bellbirds, sometimes disappearing like an invisible songbird behind a static screen of notes.
- In the same woods, we also saw the large saddleback and the bellbird, the former with a glossy black head and body and a bright chestnut ‘saddle’ across its back, the latter, olive green with a red eye and a loud, clear ringing call.
- The fourth point is that it has a very high diversity and good numbers of native birds, including tui, bellbird, weka, yellow-breasted tit, robin, rifleman, brown creeper, fantail, kereru, grey warbler, and silvereye.
- Contrast this to the bellbird, a long-lived tropical bird in which individuals come to know one another well.
- When a tui or a bellbird pops open a bud, all four petals spring back, and as the bird inserts its beak into the corolla to drink nectar, its head often brushes pollen onto the receptive stigma.
- Soon we're hearing a frenzy of bellbirds - crow-size, white cotingas, that sound like cracked bells.
2Any of a number of Australasian songbirds with a ringing call. ('New Zealand bellbird') a New Zealand honeyeater (Anthornis melanura, family Meliphagidae) the bell miner ('crested bellbird') an Australian whistler (Oreoica gutturalis, family Pachycephalidae) Example sentencesExamples - Last time that we walked the track we saw and/or heard bellbirds, fantails, chaffinches, greenfinches, grey warblers and a native pigeon.
- There are signs of many birds such as the Major Mitchell cockatoos, mulga parrots, honeyeaters, crested bellbirds and many more.
- There are still many native birds in the shrubland including bellbirds, kingfishers, silvereye and the hawk or kahu.
- In this area you may see the brown creeper, tomtit, robin, bellbird, rifleman, wood pigeon, falcon and kea.
- We lay for a while before starting breakfast, warm in our bags, savouring the view and at the same time listening to the donging reverberations of a bellbird calling his good-morning song.
- Theirs isn't the honeyed call of New Zealand bellbirds but a harsher sound my bird field guide book describes as a sharp ‘jak jak jak’.
- As you walk you have a good chance of seeing some native birds - brown creepers, bellbirds, grey warblers and fantails.
- As we walked we heard bellbirds in the trees and saw a silvereye quite close on a small shrub.
- He befriended native birds; his favourite a bellbird he named Oscar.
- When you need to pause for breath look at the surrounding bush, listen to the birds and watch to see fantails, bellbirds, and native pigeons.
- Celebrate all that is distinctive. People come here to experience the so-called '100% pure’ New Zealand environment, and that includes special birds like the bellbird.
- There is still the song of the bellbird and the other birds are still to be seen and heard, but not in such abundance.
- A bellbird's call, crystal clear, was the only intrusion.
- It's not long before we hear the bellbirds that inhabit this end of the gardens.
- A bellbird called as we walked into the eucalypt forest.
- We were entertained by the familiar voices of crested bellbirds and rufous songlarks, but a different voice soon became evident.
- Resident ranger Maurice Puckett takes David Steemson on a visit with several hundred school children and explains how more spiders are evident, along with native cockroaches and bellbirds.
- Along these roads are many walking tracks where native birds such as wood pigeons, bellbirds, weka and fantails can be seen and heard.
- The piercing call of a bellbird draws attention to a soundtrack of bush noises.
- The bush has abundant bird life, including the bellbird, tomtit, rifleman, wood pigeon and grey warbler.
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