Definition of American redstart

1. Noun. Flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail.

Exact synonyms: Redstart, Setophaga Ruticilla
Generic synonyms: Flycatching Warbler

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Redstart

American parsley fern
American pasqueflower
American pennyroyal
American persimmon
American pit bull terrier
American plaice
American plan
American plane
American pulsatilla
American quaking aspen
American raspberry
American rattlebox
American red elder
American red plum
American red squirrel
American redstart (current term)
American robin
American robins
American rock brake
American sable
American saddle horse
American shrew mole
American sign language
American smelt
American smokewood
American smooth dogfish
American spelling
American spellings
American spicebush
American spikenard

Literary usage of American redstart

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1840)
"... elongated, lanceolate, smooth leaves; and umbellate, subsessile flowers, which are of a deep purple colour, with yellow anthers. THE American redstart. ..."

2. Ornithological Biography by John James Audubon (1832)
"THE American redstart. MUSCICAPA RUTICILLA, Linn. PLATE XL. MALE AKD FEMALE. THIS is one of the most lively, as well as one of the handsomest, ..."

3. Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1921)
"His upper parts, throat and breast are lustrous black; terminal parts of American Redstart Setophaga ruticilla L. 5.40 inches May loth ..."

4. Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright (1897)
"... ten of the whole Warbler tribe whose notes will serve as a guide to any one but an ornithologist well up in field practice. American redstart: Setophaga ..."

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