Kingbird

Word KINGBIRD
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Hyphenation king bird
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Definitions and meanings of "Kingbird"

What do we mean by kingbird?

Any of various flycatchers of the genus Tyrannus found throughout the Americas, especially T. tyrannus. noun

A tyrant flycatcher, Tyrannus carolinensis, abundant in the United States (also called bee-martin), or some other species of the same genus, as the gray kingbird, Tyrannus dominicensis. noun

Any bird of the family Tyrannidæ; any tyrant flycatcher. noun

A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or Tyrannus Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the bead and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show a bright orange basal spot when erected. Called also bee bird, and bee martin. Several Southern and Western species of Tyrannus are also called king birds. noun

The king tody. See under King. noun

A group of large insectivorous passerine birds of the genus Tyrannus. noun

Large American flycatcher noun

A group of large insectivorous passerine birds of the genus Tyrannus.

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The word "kingbird" in example sentences

The kingbird is the best dressed member of the family, but he is a braggart; and, though always snubbing his neighbors, is an arrant coward, and shows the white feather at the slightest display of pluck in his antagonist. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

I saw a kingbird on a telephone wire as I pedaled out and a redwinged blackbird as I rode back. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Later on I watch a piping plover harassing and attacking a common grackle and then an eastern kingbird. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Each puddle seemed to be functioning as a bird bath, with a different species in each puddle: gray catbird, eastern kingbird, brown thrasher, common grackle, American goldfinch, American robin, several species of sparrow. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mid morning, my first eastern kingbird of the season perched on a piece of driftwood behind me and made his presence known. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have observed mockingbirds terrorize even larger groups of starlings, so I have no doubt that a kingbird could do it, too. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Saw my first eastern kingbird of the season on Sunday at Colt State Park in Bristol, RI. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The flycatchers and vireos now appear in force -- little hunters of insects clad in leafy greens and browns, with now and then a touch of brightness -- as in the yellow-throated vireo or in the crest of the kingbird. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

The kingbird builds an untidy nest in an apple tree. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

The flycatchers are well represented in the Park, there being no fewer than five species; the least flycatcher, wood pewee, phoebe, crested flycatcher, and kingbird. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

Virgil also accuses the titmouse and the woodpecker of preying upon the bees, and our kingbird has been charged with the like crime, but the latter devours only the drones. ❋ Unknown (1914)

It is really a big, heavy kingbird, fiercer and more powerful than any northern kingbird. ❋ Unknown (1914)

She rocked like a kingbird on the top twig of the winesap, which was the tallest tree in our orchard, and for once there wasn't a single fly in her ointment, not one, she said so herself, and so did father. ❋ Unknown (1913)

A swallow flew into the schoolhouse at this moment as if a kingbird were after it, and beat itself against the walls for a minute, and escaped again to the open air; but Captain Littlepage took no notice whatever of the flurry. 20 ❋ Unknown (1910)

A blue-jay is just approaching the wood pewee's nest in the burr oak, but the doughty husband does battle with the fierceness of a kingbird and chases him away. ❋ Frederick John Lazell (1905)

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