At all seasons of the year a ground bird, you may readily identify the Lapland longspur by its tracks through the snow, showing the mark of the long hind claw or spur.
Smith's Painted Longspur is usually considered a rare bird in the middle west, but a recent observer found it very common in the fields.
The Longspur is a ground feeder, and the mark of his long hind claw, or spur, can often be seen in the new snow.
The Longspur is a strong flier, and seems to delight in breasting the strongest gales, when all the other birds appear to move with difficulty, and to keep themselves concealed among the grass.
While the colors of adult males are very different in the Longspur family, the females have a decided resemblance.
The behavior pattern of leaving the ground with an audible commotion and flapping of wings on the vegetation also was characteristic of this period of decreasing numbers of the longspur population.
Although the longspur on the Arctic Slope is the most common bird, it is absent from some areas there.
The Lapland longspur and snow bunting were two of the early arrivals on the Arctic Slope of northern Alaska.
The increase of juveniles there caused the longspur to be the most common bird in the field (50 per cent in abundance).
This longspur nest, among polygons of low hummocks, was bordered by mosses and grasses nine inches high.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "longspur" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
