redstart

/red-stahrt/US // ˈrɛdˌstɑrt //UK // (ˈrɛdˌstɑːt) //

红尾鸲,红尾蛇,红鸟,红枕头

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : any of several small, Old World thrushes, usually with reddish-brown tails, especially Phoenicurus phoenicurus.
- : any of several fly-catching, New World warblers, especially Setophaga ruticilla, having black and white plumage with reddish-orange patches.

I may add that I have had the same bad luck in all my former visits to the Islands, and never seen a Redstart.
The male Black Redstart has also a white patch on the wing caused by the pale, nearly white, margins of the feathers.
Dippers, wagtails and the white-capped redstart were the commonest birds along the river-banks.
A brightly-coloured bird, the redstart, appears suddenly in spring, like a flower that has bloomed before the bud was noticed.
Of such are the redstart, the grey-headed flycatcher, the snipe and the majority of the game birds.