redstarts

John Clare called redstarts firetails, and the local name is accurate and beautiful.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

In fact, the redstarts are the tiny fantail pigeons of the forest.

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892

Many species belong to genera typical of the high ranges of Asia, such as redstarts (Phoenicurus), accentors (Prunella) and rosefinches (Carpodacus).

Biological diversity in the mountains of Central Asia 2008

I love them as much for the ads for Atco Autoscythes and Cremona Assorted Toffees as for the editorial content on everything from redstarts on window-sills to the vegetation on British Railways 'embankments.

Green Credentials Peter Ashley 2008

A crow shot past overhead, closely pursued by a pair of redstarts.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Buxton says they would call themselves redstarts if they needed a name, “since it is by this that they recognize one another.”

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

He wanted to be an amateur because he knew the etymology of the word, that an amateur is a lover, and that his love for his redstarts lay at the heart of his experience of them.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Aristotle identified the similarities of the two species and noted that redstarts departed at about the time that robins arrived.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Their mother, Stephanie Parker, has been incredibly accommodating to the demands of this book, and much else besides; the words here began in many places—one such was a walk with her across Exmoor in the early summer more than fifteen years ago, when redstarts, wood warblers, and pied flycatchers retook possession of my imagination.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Young redstarts, Buxton discovered, start quivering their tails on their tenth or thirteenth day.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009