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bluethroat

NOUN
  1. songbird of northern Europe and Asia

How To Use bluethroat In A Sentence

  • Furthermore, in bluethroats, European starlings, and blue tits female choice for males with greater UV reflectance appears to favor structural plumage traits.
  • I pished, sucking air through my teeth, chacking and tutting, and a bluethroat appeared from behind a pigsty, a beautiful sort-of-redstart for me, almost equally good, its next year’s blue intimated in its delicate pinpricked necklace. A Year on the Wing
  • A lost waif and stray of extraordinary beauty turned up in Aberdeen and made the front page of two national newspapers: a bluethroat looking enchantingly like a robin that had been coloured in wrong.
  • Wagtails and sandpipers squeak and dart amongst the thick glossy hyacinth leaves, and at the muddy edges, bluethroats scuttle this way and that like mice.
  • Furthermore, in bluethroats, European starlings, and blue tits female choice for males with greater UV reflectance appears to favor structural plumage traits.
  • The fact that the lost and wandering bluethroat could thrill a nation's newspaper readers is a perfect example of hope.
  • A flock of greater binoculared birders is migrating across the moorland on the track of a rare bluethroat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Norwegian scientists find that some 60 percent of bluethroat females indulged in "extra-pair copulations. Science Notes
  • In many passerine species, including bluethroats, male removal results in an overall reduction in food supply.
  • This bluethroat seems settled and will probably still be there today. Times, Sunday Times
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