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American songbird
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bluebird
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The bluebirds are a group of medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous bird in the order of Passerines in the genus Sialia of the thrush family (Turdidae). Bluebirds are one of the few thrush genera in the Americas . They have blue, or blue and rose ...
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n. fruit-eating mostly brilliant blue songbird of the East Indies [syn: fairy bluebird ] blue North American songbird
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also blue-bird , North American warbler-like bird, 1680s, from blue (1) in reference to its plumage + bird (n.1). Figurative use in bluebird of happiness is from 1909 play romance "l'Oiseau bleu," literally "The Blue Bird," by Belgian dramatist and poet ...
Usage examples of bluebird.
We put out seed and water and birds flocked -- gnatcatchers, hummingbirds, red-tailed hawks, crows, brilliantly hued mountain bluebirds.
I shall give his answer in the form in which I now and then make it to a student who may chance to ask why an insect has six legs and a spider eight, or why a yellowbird is yellow and a bluebird blue.
These bluebirds are messengers, bringing in hope from the world outside.
Everywhere at this time of year, female bluebirds fought female, and males fought male, defending territory with the snuggest nesting hollows.
Julia the wonder of that place: swamp oak and bluebirds, swallows and bullfrogs, white oak and birch, my own private playground for a month.
Magpies drifted from cottonwoods across the deserted road, and bluebirds and swallows flitted in and out of abandoned adobe farmhouses.
The bluebird of happiness we call it, because it comes and departs before we can grasp it.
He it was who sent the wood-birds, Sent the robin, the Opechee, Sent the bluebird, the Owaissa, Sent the Shawshaw, sent the swallow, Sent the wild-goose, Wawa, northward, Sent the melons and tobacco, And the grapes in purple clusters.
And the air grew warm and pleasant, And upon the wigwam sweetly Sang the bluebird and the robin, And the stream began to murmur, And a scent of growing grasses Through the lodge was gently wafted.
Overhead a bluebird, straining its little throat in exultant melody, flew from branch to branch of the big chestnut-tree, and the hum of insects made soft monotone to the shrill cry of the locust, which promised greater heat next day.
Lovely, with high cheekbones, eyes as black as raven feathers, hair even blacker than Martie's, she was a Southwest princess in a white blouse with bluebirds embroidered on the collar, a faded denim skirt, folded bobbysocks and scuffed white sneakers.
Lovely, with high cheekbones, eyes as black as raven feathers, hair even blacker than Martie’s, she was a Southwest princess in a white blouse with bluebirds embroidered on the collar, a faded denim skirt, folded bobbysocks and scuffed white sneakers.
It was the same motor that Brickman had fitted to Bluebird and then discarded just before his escape because he could not make it work properly.
He visualized a ring of twittering bluebirds circling his head, and wondered if this was the Daffy Duck part.
Hornbills, cockatoos, fairy bluebirds and doves fluttered among the trees, filling the air with song and with color.