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Wilson's thrush

American  

noun

  1. veery.


Etymology

Origin of Wilson's thrush

1830–40, Wilson's storm petrel

Example Sentences

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Not that he is a recluse, like the hermit thrush, who hides his nest and lifts up his heavenly voice in deep, cool, forest solitudes; nor is he even so shy as Wilson's thrush, who prefers to live in low, wet, densely overgrown Northern woods.

From Project Gutenberg

Indeed, I had stated in print on two occasions that the wood-thrush was not found in the higher lands of the Catskills, but that the hermit-thrush and the veery, or Wilson’s thrush, were common.

From Project Gutenberg

While I was loitering there on the threshold of the woods, observing the small sylvan folk, about a hundred yards above me, near the highway, was a bird's nest of a kind I had not seen for more than a score of years, the nest of the veery, or Wilson's thrush.

From Project Gutenberg

Veery, Wilson's Thrush: bleating cry, 111. calls and cries, 125. cry of young, 107. description of young, 113. distress of parents, 120, 124, 126. empty nest, 120. friendliness, 126. humorist, 127. mother, the, 109. nest destroyed, 117. nest seeking, 115. nests found, 116, 118, 119, 124. solitude, love of, 125. song, 99, 106, 260.

From Project Gutenberg

Wilson's thrush, 113. woodpecker, 175. wood-pewee, 71. yellow-bellied woodpecker, 135, 209.

From Project Gutenberg