Crossword-Solution: REDSTART
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| Redstart | n. | A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India. |
| Redstart | n. | An American fly-catching warbler (Setophaga ruticilla). The male is black, with large patches of orange-red on the sides, wings, and tail. The female is olive, with yellow patches. |
We have 27 clues for the answer “REDSTART”
| Clue | Answers |
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| related to Old World robins | 1 answer |
| group of small Old World birds | 1 answer |
| black redstart | 1 answer |
| Fly-catching warbler | 1 answer |
| Eye-catching warbler. | 1 answer |
| European songbird with a reddish breast and tail | 1 answer |
| Colorful warbler | 1 answer |
| Bird named for its colorful breast and tail | 1 answer |
| American warbler | 2 answers |
| Black-and-orange songbird | 2 answers |
| BLUETHROAT relative | 3 answers |
| THRUSH (bird) relative | 4 answers |
| NIGHTINGALE relative | 4 answers |
| Singing bird. | 5 answers |
| BREAST STARTER | 10 answers |
| A SMALL ACTIVE SONGBIRD | 10 answers |
| BREAST ENDER | 10 answers |
| bird colorful | 10 answers |
| BREAST BONE | 11 answers |
| BIRD OF THE THRUSH FAMILY | 11 answers |
| EUROPEAN songbird | 11 answers |
| Black-and-orange bird | 11 answers |
| AN UDDER OR BREAST OR TEAT | 12 answers |
| BIRD NAMED FOR ITS CALL | 12 answers |
| Warbler. | 16 answers |
| Small songbird | 20 answers |
| songbird | 42 answers |
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Sentences with REDSTART (5)
Sometimes it is a flycatcher, sometimes a greenfinch, or chaffinch, now and then a robin, in one place a shrike, perhaps another is a redstart.
The redstart yonder has given forth a few notes, the whitethroat flings himself into the air at short intervals and chatters, the shrike calls sharp and determined, faint but shrill calls descend from the swifts in the air.
This same naturalist ordered the sparrows, which deprived the house-martins of their nests, to be shot; but the one which was left, “be it cock or hen, presently procured a mate, and so for several times following.” I could add analogous cases relating to the chaffinch, nightingale, and redstart.
Throughout the Middle and Eastern States, half a dozen species or so may be found in almost every locality, as the redstart, the Maryland yellow-throat, the yellow warbler (not the common goldfinch, with black cap, and black wings and tail), the hooded warbler, the black and white creeping warbler; or others, according to the locality and the character of the woods.
They also reminded me of certain notes, which have a human quality, in some of our songsters--the swallow, redstart, pied wagtail, whinchat, and two or three others.
Quotes with REDSTART (1)
This the touch of my lips to yours, this the murmur of yearning, This the far-off depth and height reflecting my own face, This the thoughtful merge of myself, and the outlet again. Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well I have, for the Fourth-month showers have, and the mica on the side of a rock has. Do you take it I would astonish? Does the daylight astonish? does the early redstart twittering through the woods? Do I astonish more than they? This hour I tell thin…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1955–2006).