Crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male.
The male is bright red with black wings and tail.
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Examples for "firebird "
Examples for "firebird "
1 Again and again she awakes with Miss Maharaj murmuring: once the men have spent their dowries, then the firebird comes.
2 I told you that there would be trouble if you picked up the golden feather from the firebird 's burning breast.
3 The sea piled itself into waves with crests of foam, and the firebird came flying from the other side of the world.
4 Appropriately enough, her non-singing debut at the Kirov was as a pair of legs belonging to a quadruped firebird in Rimsky-Korsakov's Golden Cockerel.
5 Twenty minutes later, Lula rolled her Firebird into the Cluck-in-a-Bucket parking lot.
1 The gorgeous coloring of the scarlet tanager has been its snare and destruction.
2 And as true as I live there's a scarlet tanager on that bush!
3 Her favorite birds, I felt certain, were the red-winged blackbird and the scarlet tanager .
4 But your voice, Phœbe, like the scarlet tanager 's , is right as God made it.
5 You surely haven't forgotten the scarlet tanager that gave you such a surprise the day before yesterday.
1 An' Maria 'ud cry her eyes out if you'd a-hit the redbird .
2 It must be something very rude, the redbird 's bearing makes me think so.
3 An' if I'd a-been a hen redbird I wouldn't a-been so long comin'.
4 And all the while the redbird whistles in the shrubbery.
5 And there's the admiral, our redbird , and Bessie, the parrot.
6 It was a redbird , smashing itself against the glass and chirping an awful call.
7 Biggest reddest redbird I ever saw; an' jest a master hand at king's English!
8 She stared at the eye of the redbird and it stared right back at her.
9 Rachel got within twenty yards when Wimpy and the redbird turned and looked at her.
10 The redbird is singing in the tree, his plumage all the brighter for the winter's bleaching.
11 Can I believe that the squirrel and the redbird love me, when they flee from me?
12 One night he said to his wife: Maria, have you been noticin' the redbird of late?
13 He was the biggest, most aggressive redbird in the Limberlost, and easily reigned king of his kind.
14 In fact, the book said cicadas did not consume a thing, but here was the redbird , eaten alive.
15 In their hair they braided eagle plumes, hawk wings, or the brilliant plumage of the tanager and redbird .
16 When she got within a few feet, the redbird shot from its perch and disappeared into the woods.
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