bullfinchnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbʊl.fɪntʃ/us/ˈbʊl.fɪntʃ/a small European bird with a black head and a pink chest
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Other wild birds
- bird of paradise
- blackbird
- blue tit
- bluebird
- bluejay
- house martin
- house sparrow
- hummingbird
- Indian mynah
- jackass
- mockingbird
- mynah
- nightingale
- oriole
- ostrich
- starling
- swift
- toucan
- turtle dove
- warbler
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Examples from literature
- A bullfinch pipes now and then further up the hedge where the brambles and thorns are thickest.
- But at that time no seeds or fruits fit for bullfinches to eat existed on the islands.
- Goldfinches, bullfinches, a few thrushes, and other autumn birds, were sitting in the aspen trees.
- The last noise I heard was the whistling of a bullfinch.
- There is no sound but the scratching of the quill pen as it flies over the paper, and the chirping of a bullfinch in a cage in the bow-window.