whinchat

/hwin-chat, win-/US // ˈʰwɪnˌtʃæt, ˈwɪn- //UK // (ˈwɪnˌtʃæt) //

鲸鱼,鲸鱼座,鲸鱼岛,鲸吞

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a small Old World thrush, Saxicola rubetra, having a buff-colored breast and white streaks in the tail.

The Whinchat may be distinguished at a considerable distance by the white streak over the eye.
The same is true of the Whinchat, and one would scarcely expect to find this bird attacking Buntings as it sometimes does.
The redstart and nightingale are most subject to this; it sometimes also happens to the fauvette, and also to the whinchat.
It is not so tender as the whinchat, some few of them occasionally stopping in this country all the winter.
Incidentally we may remark that the Whinchat is also a frequenter of the gorse coverts and the moorlands.