Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having wiry or wireshafted tail-feathers, as the thread-tailed swallow, Uromitus filiferus. See cuts under thread-tailed, Trochilidæ, Videstrelda, and Vidua.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules.
Examples
“They derive the name "wire-tailed" from the fact that the thin shafts of the outer pair of tail feathers are prolonged five inches beyond the others and look like wires.”
“The nesting season of wire-tailed swallows is a long one.”
“There is no doubt that some wire-tailed swallows bring up two broods.”
“Many of the wire-tailed swallows, minivets and white-browed fantail flycatchers bring up a second brood during the rains.”
“The wire-tailed swallows and minivets are busy with their second broods.”
“The tailor-birds, the ashy and the Indian wren-warblers, the brahminy mynas, the wire-tailed swallows, the amadavats, the sirkeer cuckoos, the pea-fowl, the water-hens, the common and the pied mynas, the cuckoo-shrikes and the orioles are all fully occupied with nursery duties.”
“Sparrows and doves are so employed, as are the wire-tailed swallows (_Hirundo smithii_).”
“The deer were missed; but a couple of bush turkey were soon after secured, and followed by the successful stalk of a wire-tailed bird of”
Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track
“Tonight, after the usual recounting of the day's small adventures "We caught two wire-tailed manakins in the nets today!”
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
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