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Definition of Redstarts

Redstart
Redstart Red"start` (-st?rt`), n. [Red + start tail.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla ph[oe]nicurus), 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. (b) 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.

Meaning of Redstarts from wikipedia

- redstarts New world warbler family (Parulidae) Myioborus, 12 species found in North and South America, also known as "whitestarts" American redstart,...
- length is 14 to 15 cm and its weight is 11 to 20 g. Like all typical redstarts, they are strongly ****ually dimorphic. Breeding males have a grey crown...
- dry scrub forests. The redstarts feed almost exclusively on insects which are usually caught by flycatching. American redstarts also have been known to...
- ancestors were apparently the first redstarts to spread to Europe; they seem to have diverged from the black redstart group about 3 mya, during the Piacenzian...
- Eurasian Redstarts, Phoenicurus" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Sinica. 52 (Supplement): 310–313. Steijn, Laurens B. (2005). "Eastern Black Redstarts at IJmuiden...
- Moussier's redstart (Phoenicurus moussieri) is a small p****erine bird in the genus Phoenicurus (redstarts), formerly classed as a member of the thrush...
- the ****ure. Male Güldenstädt's redstarts also show some plumage similarities to the much smaller Moussier's redstart P. moussieri, including the white...
- belly. Female and male birds have similar appearance. Female painted redstarts have a rare feature of being as good singers as the males. When he first...
- who is commemorated in the bird's English name. It is one of the larger redstarts, 15 to 16 cm (5.9 to 6.3 in) long with a wingspan of 25.5 to 27 cm (10...
- family Muscicapidae, native to Europe, Asia and Africa. They are named redstarts from their orange-red tails ('start' is an old name for a tail). They...