redstart
noun
red·start
ˈred-ˌstärt 
1
: a small Old World songbird (Phoenicurus phoenicurus of the family Muscicapidae) with the male having a white brow, black throat, and chestnut breast and tail
2
: an American warbler (Setophaga ruticilla of the family Parulidae) with a black and orange male
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American redstarts and magnolia warblers reliably appeared together in the researchers’ nets in spring and fall.
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Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
More recently, in a study published in Biology Letters, Eikenaar and his colleagues trapped common redstarts, which migrate from Europe down across the Sahara Desert in Africa every year.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
The effects of climate change, combined with other changes such as habitat loss, also mean that some bird species, such as the redstart, are having more offspring than usual, while others, like the garden warbler, are having fewer.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
So these findings suggest that cuckoos targeting redstarts evolved the ability to create better forgeries because the redstart has such a good eye.
—Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2011
Off Buzzards Bay at Gooseberry Neck, there were 59 chimney swifts, warblers including Tennessee, American redstart, Cape May, Northern parula, bay-breasted, yellow, blackpoll, palm, pine and yellow-rumped.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
The word steort fell out of general use around 1300, surviving only in the names of birds like redstart and wagstart (better known today as the wagtail).
—Simon Horobin, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2019
Also among reports were a smattering of warblers: ovenbird, black-and-white, common yellowthroat, American redstart, yellow, and pine.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
At Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, there were two Wilson’s phalaropes, three swamp sparrows, four American redstarts, and a blackpoll warbler.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
More recently, in a study published in Biology Letters, Eikenaar and his colleagues trapped common redstarts, which migrate from Europe down across the Sahara Desert in Africa every year.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2023
The effects of climate change, combined with other changes such as habitat loss, also mean that some bird species, such as the redstart, are having more offspring than usual, while others, like the garden warbler, are having fewer.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
So these findings suggest that cuckoos targeting redstarts evolved the ability to create better forgeries because the redstart has such a good eye.
—Patrick Morgan, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2011
Off Buzzards Bay at Gooseberry Neck, there were 59 chimney swifts, warblers including Tennessee, American redstart, Cape May, Northern parula, bay-breasted, yellow, blackpoll, palm, pine and yellow-rumped.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2022
The word steort fell out of general use around 1300, surviving only in the names of birds like redstart and wagstart (better known today as the wagtail).
—Simon Horobin, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2019
Also among reports were a smattering of warblers: ovenbird, black-and-white, common yellowthroat, American redstart, yellow, and pine.
—BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
At Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, there were two Wilson’s phalaropes, three swamp sparrows, four American redstarts, and a blackpoll warbler.
—BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
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redstart
noun
red·start
ˈred-ˌstärt
: an American warbler with a black and orange male
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