Crossword clues for veery
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veery \Veer"y\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American thrush ( Turdus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada. It is light tawny brown above. The breast is pale buff, thickly spotted with brown. Called also Wilson's thrush.
Sometimes I hear the veery's clarion.
--Thoreau.
Wiktionary
n. An American thrush ((taxlink Catharus fuscescens species noshow=1)) common in the Northern United States and Canada.
WordNet
n. tawny brown North American thrush noted for its song [syn: Wilson's thrush, Hylocichla fuscescens]
Wikipedia
The veery (Catharus fuscescens) is a small North American thrush species, a member of a group of closely related and similar species in the genus Catharus, also including the gray-cheeked thrush (C. minimus), Bicknell's thrush (C. bicknelli), Swainson's thrush (C. ustulatus), and Hermit thrush (C. guttatus). Alternate names for this species include Wilson's thrush (named so after Alexander Wilson) and tawny thrush. Up to six subspecies exist, which are grouped into the eastern Veery (C. fuscescens fuscescens), the western Veery or Willow Thrush (C. fuscescens salicicolus), and the Newfoundland Veery (C. fuscescens fuliginosus).
The specific name fuscescens is New Latin for "blackish", from Latin fuscus, "dark". The English name may imitate the call.
Usage examples of "veery".
Round Island or at the mouth of Cold Brook, he would discourse sweet music until the declining sun drew near the tree-tops and the veery rang his silver bell for vespers.
The Veery Brothers, professional effigy makers, run an establishment south of the Shambles at Second and Market Streets, by the Court House.
On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds.
I was not only nearer to some of those which commonly frequent the garden and the orchard, but to those wilder and more thrilling songsters of the forest which never, or rarely, serenade a villager-the wood thrush, the veery, the scarlet tanager, the field sparrow, the whip-poor-will, and many others.