[
UK
/ɹˈɛdwɪŋ/
]
NOUN
- small European thrush having reddish flanks
- North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings
How To Use redwing In A Sentence
- ‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
- Redwing ordered them to lower the anchor, and they got into the jolly boats and went ashore.
- Redwing are among the least robust of thrushes and vulnerable to mass mortality when overcome by cold spells.
- Herkert reported that redwings were more common on small prairies, but Bollinger found no effect of patch size.
- The redwing, fieldfare and blackbirds are all involved in serious territorial swoops between trees.
- Redwing journey here non-stop from southern Scandinavia often in company with fieldfares and blackbirds.
- The whole backyard gang composed of those mentioned above, plus house finches, chickadees, goldfinches, titmice, grackles, redwings, and blue jays start around 5 pm with their bedtime snacks.
- In the fields there were plenty fieldfares and redwings who are related to the song thrush.
- The first sign of autumn is the arrival of fieldfares and redwings coming back from their summer holidays in Scandinavia, pausing to pig out on rowan berries.
- A combination of prominent creamy-white eyestripe and rusty-red flanks and underwings makes the redwing unmistakable.