olive-backed thrush

[ ol-iv-bakt ]

noun

1. Swainson's thrush.

Word History and Origins

Origin of olive-backed thrush¹

An Americanism dating back to 1835–45

Example Sentences

One fall I picked up a dead olive-backed thrush in the Zoological Park.

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I have had persons say they saw and heard them in this section, when it was either the hermit or olive-backed thrush.

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Last May I glanced up from my book and espied an olive-backed thrush in the back yard, foraging among the currant-bushes.

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One day as I sat here I heard the song of the olive-backed thrush down in the currant-bushes below me.

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The olive-backed thrush has a hurried unrestful song, a combination of the notes of the wood thrush and the veery.

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