verdin

See also: Verdin and verdín

English

A verdin

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Spanish verdino (“bright green”), French verdin (“yellowhammer”).

Noun

verdin (plural verdins)

1. A small, yellow-headed passerine bird, Auriparus flaviceps, endemic to desert areas of the southwestern United States, that is the only species of family Remizidae found in the New World.
   • 2000, Kenn Kaufman, Verdin, Steven J. Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus (editors), A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Press, University of California Press, Revised and Updated Edition, page 422,

     Tiny and rather plain, the Verdin seems quite unremarkable at first sight.

   • 2005, Cathryn Wise-Gervais, “Verdin”, in Troy E. Corman, Cathryn Wise-Gervais, editors, The Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas, University of New Mexico Press, page 390:

     Verdins are yellow-faced desert-dwellers that are commonly encountered in southern Arizona. […] Although primarily insectivorous, Verdins will also readily consume nectar, which they obtain by piercing tubular flowers or by visiting hummingbird feeders.

   • 2013, Edward C. Beedy, Edward R. Pandolfino, Birds of the Sierra Nevada: Their Natural History, Status, and Distribution, University of California Press, page 250:

     Desert-dwelling verdins, forage solitarily, in pairs, or in small groups by actively hopping from twig to twig while sounding their surprisingly loud tseet calls almost continuously.

Synonyms

• (Auriparus flaviceps): goldtit (apparently obsolete)

Anagrams

• Virden, driven

French

Noun

verdin m (plural verdins)

1. leafbird

Piedmontese

Adjective

verdin

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Turkish

Verb

verdin

1. second-person singular indicative simple past of vermek