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bluethroat

/ ˈbluːˌθrəʊt /

noun

  1. a small brownish European songbird, Cyanosylvia svecica , related to the thrushes, the male of which has a blue throat: family Muscicapidae

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Another discovery was that non-scavenger birds such as the meadow pipit, northern wheatear, common reed bunting, bluethroat and lapland bunting all fed on the “bloom” of arthropods, such as blowfly, that developed on the carrion.

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Her dæmon, Sergi, a bluethroat, sped out of the dark alongside her.

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