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Kingbird

noun

Large American flycatcher. Synonym: Tyrannus tyrannus.

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"Kingbird" Quotes from Famous Books

... in her arms, and went out into the garden which was fragrant and sweet with dew and sun. After picking some berries for him, she sat down on the grass under the row of cotton-woods, and sank into a kind of lethargy. A kingbird chattered and shrieked overhead, the grasshoppers buzzed in the grasses, strange insects with ventriloquistic voices sang all about her,—she could not ...

— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 • Various

... great progress to make in the other. How far is its rudimentary nest—a mere platform of coarse twigs and dry stalks of weeds—from the deep, compact, finely woven and finely modeled nest of the goldfinch or the kingbird, and what a gulf between its indifference toward its young and their solicitude! Its irregular manner of laying also seems better suited to a parasite like our cowbird, or the European cuckoo, than ...

— Locusts and Wild Honey • John Burroughs

Words linked to "Kingbird" : New World flycatcher, Tyrannus domenicensis domenicensis, Cassin's kingbird, tyrant flycatcher, genus Tyrannus, Tyrannus vociferans, tyrant bird, Tyrannus, flycatcher, petchary