A songbird native to the Americas with distinctive black and white plumage in males, known for its bubbly, complex song.
From the bird's song, which is imitative onomatopoeia—'bob-o-link' directly represents the sound the bird makes; documented in English since at least the 1800s.
Bobolinks are incredible migrants that breed in North American meadows then fly over 12,000 miles to South America's grasslands and back yearly, yet their population crashes when grasslands are converted to agriculture.
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