crossbills in English
noun
1
a thickset finch with a crossed bill adapted for extracting seeds from the cones of conifers. The plumage is typically red in the male and olive green in the female.
Chickadees, crossbills , goldfinches, nuthatches, siskins, and woodpeckers pick the winged seeds out of pine and spruce cones.
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1. However, they were once considered abundant, with numbers comparable to those of White-winged Crossbills (COSEWIC 2004).