redwing

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We marched through the corn without getting sight of a single redwing, but just as we reached the far side of the field, a red-headed woodpecker flew up, and the Lawson boys cried: "Shoot him!

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  1. noun See red-winged blackbird.
  2. noun A European thrush (Turdus iliacus) having reddish feathers under the wings and a white eye stripe.

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  • It wasn't many years ago that I was surprised to see a redwing at my bird feeder. —  Home
  • In these places that are so far removed from everything that is part of our commercialized world, the only sounds that penetrate the profound silence are the soughing of the wind through the as yet leafless trees and the trilling of the redwing blackbirds claiming nesting places in the tangled sedge grasses along some meandering brook. —  The Fond du Lac Reporter Latest Headlines
  • It can be, and usually is, melodied with the voice of song sparrow and robin, redwing and oriole. —  Somewhere in NJ
  • The wood ducks, cardinals, redwing blackbirds, wood peckers, brown creepers are returning. —  Non-Linear-Arts
  • Now they were making their homes in Ireland, as were their former neighbours on Russia's arid summer plains, redwing and fieldfare by the thousand, foraging across the Irish pastures. —  Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
 

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