bobolinks forage on, or near the ground, and mainly eat seeds and insects.    From LearnThat.org.  [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobolink]

The bobolink is a songbird, and so it provides the music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Collins: A Poet's Affection For Emily Dickinson] Reference

Names of objects like "bobolink" and "raven" may affect us emotionally by the quality of their tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Poetry] Reference

Christopher Pearse Cranch calls the bobolink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook] Reference

Like the only bobolink I've ever seen in this country.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

The bobolink had many friends as well as enemies present.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

"Ah, but I should be happy," warbled the sweet-voiced bobolink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

This poet affirms that our bobolink is superior to the nightingale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference

I haven't heard a bobolink for -- I'm not going to bother to think how long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly and the Princess] Reference

What would you give to see this miracle -- a bobolink flying through the night?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories] Reference

When the bobolink sang and the thrush, and the red robin chirped in the branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Legends of Minnesota] Reference

'Tara's Harp,' not scientific, but jest nateral 'nd sweet as iver a bobolink sang.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wedge of Gold] Reference

I keep it staying at home with a bobolink for a chorister and an orchard for a dome.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Flowering Tribute To Emily Dickinson] Reference

I keep it, staying at home with a bobolink for a chorister and an orchard for a dome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Billy Collins: A Poet's Affection For Emily Dickinson] Reference

Not many now find "the meadows spattered all over with music" by the bobolink, as Thoreau did.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference

What would you give to hear this miracle -- a bobolink calling his watchword through the night?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories] Reference

"Nevare marrie anybodie!" said the lady, imitating her accents in tones much like those of a bobolink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

Doctor of Divinity from the city tried to sentimentalize, in addressing them, about "the bobolink in the woods"!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

Every one that knew the bobolink in its summer home in the North insisted that this beautiful singer must be protected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Reader] Reference

I had never heard the nesting song of a bobolink before.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine] Reference

A young bob-white and a bobolink are hatched in the same New England field.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

The thrasher is silent in the berry pasture, and the bobolink in the meadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

The bluebird is the true voice of early spring, as is the bobolink of later spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chief End of Man] Reference

A flouting bobolink flew from stake to stake in front of her, and bubbled out in melody.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiverton Tales] Reference

Hardly has the bobolink donned his first full dress before an irresistible impulse seizes him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

Were they busy in the grass with bobolink babies? and did they enjoy the music as keenly as I did?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

I judge that the bobolink escapes the dangers to which I have adverted as few or no other birds do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference

The bobolink is one of the first to leave us, though he does not start at once on his long journey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference

I gathered up my belongings and sauntered off toward home, musing, as I went, upon the bobolink family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

It was up a shady country lane, with a meadow-lark field on one side, and a bobolink meadow on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference

The quality of the music, too, was strikingly like bobolink notes, and the whole performance was exquisite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

I judge that the bobolink escapes the dangers to which nesting birds are liable as few or no other birds do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference

The next week brought to the meadow what must seem from the bobolink point of view almost the end of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

So some morning we miss his cheerful call, and if we go to the meadow we shall not be able to see a single bobolink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes] Reference

A bobolink sailed over my face, not three feet from it, singing his merriest, and then dropped into the grass behind me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

Even the bobolink is cosmic, if he sings with room enough; and when the heart wakes, the song of the cricket is infinite.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference

Half the delight of a bobolink is that he is more synthetic, more of a poet, than other birds, -- has a duet in his throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference