red-breasted

• “Below each drawing I compose a cryptogram, a hybrid of pig Latin, English, and French, neatly labeling each picture in tiny calligraphic script: Binrobatus rouge for red-breasted robin, Chicadeenus chapeaunoir for the little black-capped chickadee.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Memory Palace

• “At a sale hosted by Christie's in New York in 2007, a record $856,000 was paid for a red-breasted merganser hen made in the 1870s by famed carver Lothrop Holmes, who worked as a cemetery superintendent in Massachusetts.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Decoy Market, After Decline, Tests Its Wings

• “These red-breasted mergansers, drawn by Neal Anderson, are sometimes called "punk ducks.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hunting Duck Stamps

• “So the old woman sold me a magnet and a red-breasted hummingbird to hang around my neck.”

  El colibri

• “The red vest fits the source of a red-breasted robin, but what part of a robin is green?”

  Archive 2008-03-01

• “They were obviously home to the arboreal inhabitants of the town, cousins of the red-breasted, foul-mouthed public servant they had met delivering mail to Clothahump's tree several days ago.”

  Fictionaut: A Corridor in the Asylum

• “The more common birds are the winter wren, Townsend's warbler, chestnut-backed chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, gray jay, and Steller's jay.”

  Cascade Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)

• “Common birds include the mountain bluebird, chestnut-backed chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, ruby-crowned kinglet, pygmy nuthatch, gray jay, Steller's jay, and Clark's nutcracker.”

  Southern Rocky Mountain Steppe - OpenWoodland - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)

• “Species such as eiders, oldsquaw (Clangula hyemalis), common merganser (Mergus merganser), and red-breasted mergansers (M. serrator), are hunted by set seasonal open and closing dates.”

  Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic

• “Many bird species, including bald eagle, northern spotted owl, brown creeper, and red-breasted nuthatches are associated with white fir habitat types.”

  White fir

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