whinchat
a small Old World thrush, Saxicola rubetra, having a buff-colored breast and white streaks in the tail.
Origin of whinchat
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How to use whinchat in a sentence
The whinchat may be distinguished at a considerable distance by the white streak over the eye.
British Birds in their Haunts | Rev. C. A. JohnsThe same is true of the whinchat, and one would scarcely expect to find this bird attacking Buntings as it sometimes does.
Territory in Bird Life | H. Eliot HowardThe redstart and nightingale are most subject to this; it sometimes also happens to the fauvette, and also to the whinchat.
The Natural History of Cage Birds | J. M. BechsteinIt is not so tender as the whinchat, some few of them occasionally stopping in this country all the winter.
The Natural History of Cage Birds | J. M. BechsteinIncidentally we may remark that the whinchat is also a frequenter of the gorse coverts and the moorlands.
Among the Birds in Northern Shires | Charles Dixon
British Dictionary definitions for whinchat
/ (ˈwɪnˌtʃæt) /
an Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, having a mottled brown-and-white plumage with pale cream underparts: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
Origin of whinchat
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