noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
zebra
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But young male bullfinches, or zebra finches , are much more flexible.
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The conversation continued, punctuated by the Frenchtaxicab calls of zebra finches .
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A zebra finch will not sing unless there is sufficient testosterone in its blood.
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Insofar as a zebra finch can be said to have a mind, the hormone is a mind-altering drug.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A purple finch sings ebulliently for hours.
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But there are a few exceptions in the seed-eating species like finches and buntings.
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He waxed vehement about dinosaurs and extinction, about continental drift and the good old Galapagos finch .
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In fact, Darwin initially distinguished only six of Gould's eventual 13 separate forms as members of the finch family.
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Most of the finches die and, at once, selection sets to work.
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The ash seeds will probably again attract finch flocks, but I have not seen the squirrels feeding on them.
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The baby robins, scrub jays, finches, sparrows and starlings opened their mouths wide in anticipation.