redstart

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In all cases they are emitted with apparent effort, as if the bird strained its pipe in the vain attempt to continue the song The statement that the redstart is a mimic is to be met with in many books about birds.

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  1. noun A small North American bird (Setophaga ruticilla), the male of which has black plumage with orange patches on the wings and tail.
  2. noun A European bird (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) having grayish plumage and a rust-red breast and tail.

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  • THE REDSTARTS CORDELIA J. STANWOOD, ELLSWORTH, ME Reprints from Nature and Culture The redstart is one of the most beautiful of the warblers. —  Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State
  • The redstart is the most active of the active warblers, and the number of gnats, flies, caterpillars, moths, other insects and their eggs that these birds consume or feed to their nestlings in one day is incredible. —  Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State
  • It is not an uncommon thing for one who waits to be able to look directly into the eyes of the American redstart, the chestnut-sided and golden-winged warbler, the wood thrush, catbird, and of almost any other of the birds If one can imitate the owl and make a fair "hoot," otherwise keeping still, he may attract many birds that will feel bound to settle the question of his identity. —  Bird Day; How to prepare for it
  • There was always a halfpenny underneath the geranium pot in the window-sill for the child whose eye caught sight of the first swallow, redstart or sandpiper; or whose ear first recognised the clarion call of the cuckoo, or the evening "bleat" of the nightjar on the bracken-mantled fells at the end of May. —  More Tales of the Ridings
  • In the case of the redstart, the bush-chat, most of the wagtails, and some other species, the moult completely changes the colouring of the bird. —  A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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  1. red + obsolete start, tail (from Middle English stert, from Old English steort; see ster-1 in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from red+ start.
 

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/ˈrɛdstɑrt/
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