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Definition of Redwings
1. redwing [n] - See also: redwing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redwings
Literary usage of Redwings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1837)
"Id. On Woodcocks, Fieldfares, and redwings building within the British Islands.
— In reference to the extremely interesting communication of Mr. Fairholme ..."
2. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1849)
"Of the stomachs of three redwings opened by me, one (in January) contained the
remains of insects, two shells of ..."
3. Monthly Chronicle of North-country Lore and Legend (1888)
"Fieldfares and redwings are sometimes mistaken for each other; but the latter
birds are somewhat smaller in size than the former. The song of the redwing is ..."
4. A Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri by Otto Widmann (1907)
"They mingle and roost with the Robins or with the redwings in the reeds of the
bottomlands. After this there is a steady decline until toward the end of ..."
5. A Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri by Otto Widmann (1907)
"... Robins or with the redwings in the reeds of the bottomlands. After this there
is a steady decline until toward the end of November winter numbers only ..."
6. The Poems of Philip Henry Savage by Philip Henry Savage (1900)
"XVII FAR in the south the redwings hear and speed To answer nature's far-heard
northern cry; Swift from the fields they gather and take on The burden of a ..."
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