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verdin en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

Forms

Synonyms

goldtit (Auriparus flaviceps)