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ring ouzel

NOUN
  1. European thrush common in rocky areas; the male has blackish plumage with a white band around the neck

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  • The numbers were smaller over the two magic days of 2007, when I saw only one ring ouzel and that single redstart, but the island was still strewn with birds: there were thrushes all up the cliffs, robins along the stone walls. A Year on the Wing
  • On Fair Isle ten years later, at the other end of my childhood, there was another ring ouzel in transit from one of its places and going to another, but stopping briefly alongside me, once again casting its scintillating thread. A Year on the Wing
  • On the same trip to Spain we also caught up with two other birds I most desperately wanted to see: the ring ouzel, another thrush with a restricted range, and the wryneck, a strange-looking and behaving woodpecker.
  • The numbers were smaller over the two magic days of 2007, when I saw only one ring ouzel and that single redstart, but the island was still strewn with birds: there were thrushes all up the cliffs, robins along the stone walls. A Year on the Wing
  • The Pennine and Peak moorlands are favoured areas for observing breeding ring ouzels.
  • The birds in the mountains and forests might include ring ouzels, alpine accentors, wallcreepers, nutcrackers, and we will find alpine flowers and butterflies.
  • Other species such as the wheatear, ring ouzel, and sandwich tern have all been observed about one week earlier than usual.
  • The ring ouzel on the wall turned away from me, flicked its long wings, and flew on. A Year on the Wing
  • The male ring ouzel in front of me was beautiful, like a dusty blackbird with a gorget of white across its breast. A Year on the Wing
  • The keeper of environmental records at the museum, Colin Howes, said the ring ouzel was the first specimen they had ever received from the South Yorkshire area.
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