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redstart
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Redstarts are a group of small Old World birds. They were formerly classified in the thrush family ( Turdidae ), but are now known to be part of the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae . They are currently treated in four genera , the true redstarts ...
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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