Longspur is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 231 anagrams from letters in longspur (glnoprsu).
First recorded in 1825-35; long1 + spur1
The finest singing bird in the country is the Lapland longspur.
The increase of juveniles there caused the longspur to be the most common bird in the field (50 per cent in abundance).
Although the longspur on the Arctic Slope is the most common bird, it is absent from some areas there.
While the colors of adult males are very different in the longspur family, the females have a decided resemblance.
Among the species which thus modify their habits are the red crossbill, the redpoll, the Lapland longspur, and the snowy owl.
This longspur nest, among polygons of low hummocks, was bordered by mosses and grasses nine inches high.
The longspur is a ground feeder, and the mark of his long hind claw, or spur, can often be seen in the new snow.