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Insects now enrich the air, frogs pipe cheerily in the shallows, soon followed by the ouzel, which is the first bird to visit a glacier lake, as the sedge is the first of plants.

The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter George Wharton James 1890

However, they misspelled the word "ouzel," which is a type of blackbird.

Iowa City Press-Citizen - Local News 2010

The ring ouzel on the wall turned away from me, flicked its long wings, and flew on.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Then, jumping through the long green grass on a bank was the male ouzel, with the female not far behind.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

On Fair Isle ten years later, at the other end of my childhood, there was another ring ouzel in transit from one of its places and going to another, but stopping briefly alongside me, once again casting its scintillating thread.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

The numbers were smaller over the two magic days of 2007, when I saw only one ring ouzel and that single redstart, but the island was still strewn with birds: there were thrushes all up the cliffs, robins along the stone walls.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

The male ring ouzel in front of me was beautiful, like a dusty blackbird with a gorget of white across its breast.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

While I was forgetting much of many things that harm one, and letting of my thoughts go wild to sounds and sights of nature, a sweeter note than thrush or ouzel ever wooed a mate in, floated on the valley breeze at the quiet turn of sundown.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

There was, among the many, a hammock-shaped nest of the golden oriole, and igloo-shaped nest of some jungle specimen, a grass-at-all-angles nest of the ouzel, an eagle's nest spacious enough for Thor to hide in, and yes, a cuckoo's nest, which is to say the nest of any other bird the cuckoo finds handy.

Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

The birds, as well as those of the Nurtung river, are the water-ouzel, the greyish-blue water-chat, the red and black ditto with a white head - top, and the black bird, _durn-durns_ or bird producing that cry occurs, but not in great numbers.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith