Wilson's thrush
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Wilson's thrush
1830–40, see Wilson's storm petrel
Example Sentences
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Wilson's thrush comes every year to remind me of that most poetic or ornithologists.
From My Garden Acquaintance by James Russell Lowell
Once in a while the species was plainly distinguishable; I could make out the bobolink, tanager, Wilson's thrush, white-crown'd sparrow, and occasionally from high in the air came the notes of the plover.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
The first time I saw the veery, or Wilson's thrush, also stands out in my memory.
From My Boyhood by John Burroughs
"It is a little smaller than Wilson's thrush, Maria," she admitted.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Herman Gastrell Seely
The sun had gone nearly to the ridge top, and a Wilson's thrush was celebrating with his hollow notes the artificial twilight of its shadow.
From The Claim Jumpers by Stewart Edward White
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