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European songbird with a reddish breast and tail
Answer for the clue "European songbird with a reddish breast and tail ", 8 letters:
redstart
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Word definitions for redstart in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of bird, 1560s, from red (adj.1) + start "tail," from Old English steort . Similar formation in German Rotsterz .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redstart \Red"start`\ (-st?rt`), n. [Red + start tail.] (Zo["o]l.) A small, handsome European singing bird ( Phoenicurus phoenicurus , formerly Ruticilla phoenicurus ), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail , brantail , fireflirt , firetail ...
Usage examples of redstart.
The voice of the hen, of the redstart, the creaking of a wheel, were imitated by my child of his own accord long before he could speak a word.
Icefalcon was aware of them when they came up the coulee to the northwest as a redstart and a raven flew out of the trees.
I sometimes used to talk on walks in Surrey when I was a kid - Green Line bus, a few hours in the woods - and it was my fault the cuckoo or redstart or fieldfare or siskin flew away, and never came back the whole day.
Here they often spent a Saturday afternoon, reading, or making rush baskets, or wreaths of flowers, and listening to the sweet singing of the redstart, whose nest was in the top of the oak.
Small warblers and flycatchers flitted from thicket to tall tree, while tiny stints, redstarts, and shrikes darted from branch to branch.
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