Definitions

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  • noun Old World thrushes

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Examples

  • Forest areas are characterized with blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix), and other forest birds (Dendrocopos major, Oriolus oriolus, Columba palumbus, Streptopelia turtur, Parus cyanus, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Anthus trivialis) and others.

    Kazakh upland 2008

  • Another rail which may be seen sometimes in the Botanical Gardens at Ootacamund is the white-breasted water-hen (_Amaurornis phoenicurus_).

    Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916

  • He called restarts “red tails” and the bird’s scientific name, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, means “red tail red tail,” as if the name must itself quiver.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • a thicket of scrubby vegetation, we found a rookery of many thousands of the superb red-tailed tropic bird (_Phaeton phoenicurus_), also engaged in incubation.

    Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884

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