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Brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows
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whinchat
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows [syn: Saxicola rubetra ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small Old World songbird, (taxlink Saxicola rubetra species noshow=1), that feeds on insects.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chat \Chat\, n. Light, familiar talk; conversation; gossip. Snuff, or fan, supply each pause of chat, With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. --Pope. (Zo["o]l.) A bird of the genus Icteria , allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The whinchat ( Saxicola rubetra ) is a small migratory passerine bird breeding in Europe and western Asia and wintering in central Africa . At one time considered to be in thrush family, Turdidae , it is now placed in the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae ...
Usage examples of whinchat.
Sir Archie sat for a time on the near shore, listening to the sandpipers--birds which were his special favourites--and watching the whinchats on the hill-side and the flashing white breasts of the water-ousels.
Then we passed along the wild shore, and the linnets were singing and the whinchats were calling as ever, and the old mounds of the heroes of the bygone were awesome to me now as long ago, when I looked at them standing lonesome along the shore with only the wash of the waves to disturb them.
Once removed from cricket, Martin became a reasonable companion again, and they took particular delight in the whinchats and wheatears on Ports Down and in a middle-spotted woodpecker eating ants like its great green cousin, which neither had seen before.