English
A male bobolink in breeding plumage
Etymology
Imitative of its song. Compare Bob Lincoln .
Noun
bobolink (plural bobolinks )
An American migratory songbird , Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68 : Parameter "ver" is not used by this template. , resembling a blackbird with the bill of a finch .
1993 , TC Boyle , The Road to Wellville , Penguin, published 1994 , page 297 :The San's feeders were mobbed with sparrows and jays and the starlings that had just begun to colonize the area, but there was no sign of robin, bobolink or oriole.
Synonyms
Translations
songbird
Arabic: ممراح
Asturian: charrán m , chambergo m , tordu arroceru m
Basque: arroz-txori , bobolinko
Catalan: bobolinc m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 刺歌雀
Dutch: rijsttroepiaal , bobolink
Esperanto: dolikonikso
Estonian: heinaturpial
Faroese: gulnakki
Finnish: heinäturpiaali (fi)
French: goglu des prés m
German: Reisstärling m
Haitian Creole: gwo bèk ke pwenti
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Hebrew: ארוך טופר
Hungarian: bobalink , seregélysármány
Icelandic: rísstarli
Irish: bobóilinc
Italian: doliconice m
Japanese: ボボリンク ( boboringu )
Lithuanian: ryžinis trupialas , bobolinkas
Persian: برنجخورک
Polish: ryżojad m
Portuguese: triste-pia
Russian: рисовая птица f ( risovaja ptica ) , боболинк m ( bobolink ) , рисовый трупиал ( risovyj trupial ) , рисовый желтушник ( risovyj želtušnik )
Spanish: charlatán (es) m , chambergo (es) m , tordo arrocero m
Turkish: pirinç kuşu
Welsh: bobolinc m
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