"White-breasted robin The white-breasted robin (""Eopsaltria georgiana"") is a species of bird in the family Petroicidae. It is endemic to southwestern Australia. Unlike many other Australian robins, it lacks bright colours in its plumage, being a predominantly greyish bird with white underparts. Like many other Australian passerines of the Corvida group, it is a cooperative breeder. It is sedentary, with pairs or small groups maintaining territories. The white-breasted robin was first described by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard in 1830 as ""Muscicapa georgiana"", taking its name from the site, King George Sound, where the"
"Jacobin cuckoo The Jacobin cuckoo, pied cuckoo, or pied crested cuckoo (""Clamator jacobinus"") is a member of the cuckoo order of birds that is found in Africa and Asia. It is partially migratory and in India, it has been considered a harbinger of the monsoon rains due to the timing of its arrival. It has been associated with a bird in Indian mythology and poetry, known as the ""chataka"" (Sanskrit: चातक) represented as a bird with a beak on its head that waits for rains to quench its thirst. The Jacobin cuckoo was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc,"
"kept in Japan. Red avadavat The red avadavat, red munia or strawberry finch (""Amandava amandava"") is a sparrow-sized bird of the family Estrildidae. It is found in the open fields and grasslands of tropical Asia and is popular as a cage bird due to the colourful plumage of the males in their breeding season. It breeds in the Indian Subcontinent in the monsoon season. The species name of ""amandava"" and the common name of ""avadavat"" are derived from the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, from where these birds were exported into the pet trade in former times. This small"
"Red avadavat The red avadavat, red munia or strawberry finch (""Amandava amandava"") is a sparrow-sized bird of the family Estrildidae. It is found in the open fields and grasslands of tropical Asia and is popular as a cage bird due to the colourful plumage of the males in their breeding season. It breeds in the Indian Subcontinent in the monsoon season. The species name of ""amandava"" and the common name of ""avadavat"" are derived from the city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, India, from where these birds were exported into the pet trade in former times. This small finch is easily"
"to the author's wife is based on a Quebec superstition that whoever sees the first robin of spring will have good luck. The association has continued down to the present day, as, for example, in one Calvin and Hobbes cartoon from 1990 that had Calvin celebrating his inevitable wealth and fame after seeing the first robin of spring. The harbinger of spring sobriquet is borne out by the fact that robins tend to follow the isotherm north in spring, but also south in fall. American popular songs featuring this bird include ""When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin'"
"has led to the birds being kept as cage birds. Robert Young records that to encourage singing the cages of kept birds were covered with a wooden box with a small paper window that allowed only subdued light in. Along with the return of the barn swallow the bush warbler's call is viewed by Japanese as a herald of springtime. It is one of the favorite motifs of Japanese poetry, featured in many poems including those in ""Man'yōshū"" or ""Kokin Wakashū"". In haiku and renga, ""uguisu"" is one of the kigo which signify the early spring. In poetry the bird"
"Red-breasted merganser The red-breasted merganser (""Mergus serrator"") is a diving duck, one of the sawbills. The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird, and ""serrator"" is a sawyer from Latin ""serra"", ""saw"". The red-breasted merganser was one of the many bird species originally described by Linnaeus in the landmark 1758 10th edition of his ""Systema Naturae"", where it was given the binomial name of ""Mergus serrator"". The adult red-breasted merganser is long with a wingspan. It has a spiky crest and long thin red bill with serrated edges."
"may exchange muted, low-pitched calls, and nestlings often issue noisy begging-calls from inside their nest cavity. The wrynecks have a more musical song and in some areas, the song of the newly arrived Eurasian wryneck is considered to be the harbinger of spring. The piculets either have a song consisting of a long descending trill, or a descending series of two to six (sometimes more) individual notes, and this song alerts ornithologists to the presence of the birds, as they are easily overlooked. The majority of woodpecker species live up to their name and feed on insects and other invertebrates"
"Red-winged warbler The red-winged warbler or the red-winged prinia (""Heliolais erythropterus"") is a bird species in the family Cisticolidae. It belongs to the monotypic genus Heliolais. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, where its natural habitat is dry savanna. The red-winged warbler was described by the Scottish naturalist William Jardine in 1849 under the binomial name ""Drymoica erythroptera"". The type locality is West Africa. The"
"tropical kingbird, vermilion flycatcher, western kingbird, willow flycatcher, yellow-billed cuckoo, and the yellow-breasted chat. Migratory species include American robin, belted kingfisher, Bewick's wren, black-headed grosbeak, black-throated gray warbler, blue-gray gnatcatcher, blue grosbeak, Brewer's sparrow, bridled titmouse, brown creeper, bushtits, Cassin's vireo, cedar waxwing, cinnamon teal, dark-eyed junco, dusky flycatcher, gray flycatcher, green-tailed towhee, green-winged teal, hermit thrush, hermit warbler, hooded merganser, house wren, Hutton's vireo, indigo bunting, lark sparrow, lazuli bunting, Lincoln's sparrow, MacGillivray's warbler, marsh wren, Nashville warbler, Northern ""Red-shafted"" Flicker, olive-sided flycatcher, orange-crowned warbler, Pacific-slope flycatcher, plumbeous vireo, red-naped sapsucker, ring-necked duck, ruby-crowned kinglet, rufous hummingbird, sharp-shinned hawk,"
"standing stones do have a link with the heralding of spring by the first cuckoo of that season to arrive. In the churchyard at Nevern in Wales is an old stone cross, carved with intricate knotwork. Villagers of Nevern would wait for their ""harbinger of spring"" and on 7 April, St Brynach's feast day, the first cuckoo of the year would arrive from Africa, alighting on the cross and singing to announce the arrival of spring. A local belief of the Gaelic-speaking community on the Isle of Lewis was that when the sun rose on midsummer morn, the ""shining one"""
"Red-eyed vireo The red-eyed vireo (""Vireo olivaceus"") is a small American songbird, in length. It is somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers (Parulidae). Common across its vast range, this species is not considered threatened by the IUCN. ""Vireo"" is a Latin word referring to a green migratory bird, perhaps the female golden oriole, possibly the European greenfinch. The specific ""olivaceus"" is New Latin for ""olive-green"", from Latin ""oliva"" ""olive"". Adults are mainly olive-green on the upperparts with white underparts; they have a red iris and a grey crown edged with black. There is a dark"
"Trillium erectum Trillium erectum, also known as red trillium, wake-robin, purple trillium, Beth root, or stinking Benjamin, is a species of flowering plant. The plant takes its common name ""wake-robin"" by analogy with the European robin, which has a red breast heralding spring. It is native to the Eastern United States and eastern Canada at least as far north as Lac-Pénobscot, Quebec. It is a spring ephemeral, an herbaceous perennial whose life-cycle is synchronised with that of the deciduous forests where it lives. ""Trillium erectum"" grows to about in height with a spread of , and can tolerate extreme cold"
"water only from dew and spray picked up from plant leaves suggesting that it may have been the basis for the idea that the ""chatak"" only drank raindrops. To compound the issues with matching vernacular names, it has been pointed out that in Bengal ""chātak"" also refers to skylarks (which are also crested). Jacobin cuckoo The Jacobin cuckoo, pied cuckoo, or pied crested cuckoo (""Clamator jacobinus"") is a member of the cuckoo order of birds that is found in Africa and Asia. It is partially migratory and in India, it has been considered a harbinger of the monsoon rains due"
"all were infected with at least one of these parasites. Red-eyed vireo The red-eyed vireo (""Vireo olivaceus"") is a small American songbird, in length. It is somewhat warbler-like but not closely related to the New World warblers (Parulidae). Common across its vast range, this species is not considered threatened by the IUCN. ""Vireo"" is a Latin word referring to a green migratory bird, perhaps the female golden oriole, possibly the European greenfinch. The specific ""olivaceus"" is New Latin for ""olive-green"", from Latin ""oliva"" ""olive"". Adults are mainly olive-green on the upperparts with white underparts; they have a red iris and"
"Red bird-of-paradise The red bird-of-paradise (""Paradisaea rubra"", also cendrawasih merah), is a bird-of-paradise in the genus ""Paradisaea"", family Paradisaeidae. Large, up to 33 cm long, brown and yellow with a dark brown iris, grey legs and yellow bill. The male has an emerald green face, a pair of elongated black corkscrew-shaped tail wires, dark green feather pompoms above each eye and a train of glossy crimson red plumes with whitish tips at either side of the breast. The male measures up to 72 cm long, including the ornamental red plumes that require at least six years to fully attain. The"
"Red-breasted partridge The red-breasted partridge (""Arborophila hyperythra""), also known as the Bornean hill-partridge, is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae. It is endemic to hill and montane forest in Borneo, preferring bamboos and thickets. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has assessed it as a least-concern species. Richard Bowdler Sharpe described this species as ""Bambusicola hyperythra"" in 1879, from specimens collected in northwestern Borneo by William Hood Treacher, who was Acting Governor of Labuan at that time. In 1890, Sharpe described the population on Mount Kinabalu as ""Bambusicola erythrophrys"". It was formerly considered a subspecies, but"
"<poem> Summer has arrived, Sing loudly, cuckoo! The seed is growing And the meadow is blooming, And the wood is coming into leaf now, Sing, cuckoo! </poem> In England, William Shakespeare alludes to the common cuckoo's association with spring, and with cuckoldry, in the courtly springtime song in his play ""Love's Labours Lost"": In Europe, hearing the call of the common cuckoo is regarded as the first harbinger of spring. Many local legends and traditions are based on this. In Scotland, Gowk Stones (cuckoo stones) sometimes associated with the arrival of the first cuckoo of spring. ""Gowk"" is an old"
"One of the houses of the Raven Tribe from the Nisga'a Nation holds the robin as a house crest. The Peace Bridge robins were a family of American robins that attracted minor publicity in the mid-1930s for their prominent nest on the Canadian side of the Peace Bridge connecting Buffalo, New York to Fort Erie, Ontario. The robin is considered a symbol of spring. A well-known example is a poem by Emily Dickinson, ""I Dreaded That First Robin So"". Among other 19th-century poems about the first robin of spring is ""The First Robin"" by Dr. William H. Drummond, which according"
"egret (""Egretta garzetta""); osprey (""Pandion haliaetus""); grey-faced buzzard (""Butastur indicus""); buff-banded rail (""Gallirallus philippensis""); barred rail (""Gallirallus torquatus""); white-breasted waterhen (""Amaurornis phoenicurus""); greater painted-snipe (""Rostratula benghalensis""); Kentish plover (""Charadrius alexandrines""); greater sand plover (""Charadrius leschenaultia""); whimbrel (""Numenius phaeopus""); common greenshank (""Tringa nebularia""); grey-tailed tattler (""Heteroscelus brevipes""); ruddy turnstone (""Arenaria interpres""); spotted dove (""Spilopelia chinensis""); fork-tailed swift (""Apus pacificus kanoi""); house swift (""Apus affinis""); collared kingfisher (""Todiramphus chloris""); Pacific swallow (""Hirundo tahitica""); elegant tit (""Parus elegans""); orange-flanked bush robin (""Tarsiger cyanurus""); Asian glossy starling (""Aplonis panayensis""); crested myna (""Acridotheres cristatellus""); pygmy flowerpecker (""Dicaeum pygmaeum""); lowland white-eye (""Zosterops meyeni""); and Eurasian tree"
"is cultivated as a flowering ornamental plant. It has received the Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Trillium erectum Trillium erectum, also known as red trillium, wake-robin, purple trillium, Beth root, or stinking Benjamin, is a species of flowering plant. The plant takes its common name ""wake-robin"" by analogy with the European robin, which has a red breast heralding spring. It is native to the Eastern United States and eastern Canada at least as far north as Lac-Pénobscot, Quebec. It is a spring ephemeral, an herbaceous perennial whose life-cycle is synchronised with that of the deciduous forests"
"Great reed warbler The great reed warbler (""Acrocephalus arundinaceus"") is a Eurasian passerine in the genus ""Acrocephalus"". The genus name ""Acrocephalus"" is from Ancient Greek ""akros"", ""highest"", and ""kephale"", ""head"". It is possible that Naumann and Naumann thought ""akros"" meant ""sharp-pointed"". The specific ""arundinaceus"" is from Latin and means ""like a reed"", from ""arundo, arundinis"", ""reed"". It used to be placed in the Old World warbler assemblage, but is now recognized as part of the marsh and tree-warbler family (Acrocephalidae). Great reed warblers are medium-sized birds and are the largest of the European warblers. They breed throughout mainland Europe and"
"(""wings of red""). Its songs are described in Lakota as ""tōke, mat'ā nī"" (""oh! that I might die""), as ""nakun miyē"" (""...and me""), as ""miš eyā"" (""me too!""), and as ""cap'cehlī"" (""a beaver's running sore""). And its name in nahuatl the Aztec idiom is ""acolchichilli"" that literally means ""red shoulder"". Red-winged blackbird The red-winged blackbird (""Agelaius phoeniceus"") is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern"
"Red-billed quelea The red-billed quelea (; ""Quelea quelea""), also known as the red-billed weaver or red-billed dioch, is a small—approximately long and weighing —migratory, sparrow-like bird of the weaver family, Ploceidae, native to Sub-Saharan Africa. It was named by Linnaeus in 1758, who considered it a bunting, but Ludwig Reichenbach assigned it in 1850 to the new genus ""Quelea"". Three subspecies are recognised, with ""Quelea quelea quelea"" occurring roughly from Senegal to Chad, ""Q. q. aethiopica"" from Sudan to Somalia and Tanzania, and ""Q. q. lathamii"" from Gabon to Mozambique and South Africa. Non-breeding birds have light underparts, striped brown"
"aviary bird in Sydney. It is not difficult to look after but can be very aggressive to other cage birds. ""Grevillea"" 'Robyn Gordon' is a useful companion shrub as it bears flowers all year round. Red wattlebird The red wattlebird (""Anthochaera carunculata"") is a passerine bird native to southern Australia. At in length, it is the second largest species of Australian honeyeater. It has mainly grey-brown plumage, with red eyes, distinctive pinkish-red wattles on either side of the neck, white streaks on the chest and a large bright yellow patch on the lower belly. The sexes are similar in plumage."
"Red crossbill The red crossbill (""Loxia curvirostra"") is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae, also known as the common crossbill in Eurasia. Crossbills have distinctive mandibles, crossed at the tips, which enable them to extract seeds from conifer cones and other fruits. Adults are often brightly coloured, with red or orange males and green or yellow females, but there is wide variation in colour, beak size and shape, and call types, leading to different classifications of variants, some of which have been named as subspecies. Crossbills are characterized by the mandibles crossing at their tips, which gives"
"violet. The male has a deeply forked, spectacular, long, iridescent, golden-reddish tail, longer than the length of the body, while the female has a shorter reddish-bronze tail. The species has a hoarse chattery call. Red-tailed comet The red-tailed comet (""Sappho sparganurus"") is a medium-sized hummingbird belonging to the family Trochilidae. The genus name refers to Sappho, an ancient Greek poet of Lesbos. The species name ""sparganus"" derives from the Greek words ""σπαργανόω"" and ""ουρά"", meaning ""decorated tail"". In at least part of its range it is known in the local Quechua language as ""Q'ori Kenti"" (""golden hummingbird""). It is called"
"from Central and South America. A few species to be found there are black-bellied whistling duck, fulvous whistling duck, mottled duck, blue-winged teal, green-winged teal, and cinnamon teal, least grebe, anhinga, tricolored heron, American white ibis, lesser yellowlegs, long-billed dowitcher, and least tern. Osprey, broad-winged hawk, northern harrier, and peregrine falcon are among the migratory birds of prey found in the refuge. Hook-billed kite and gray hawk, seen occasionally in the refuge, attract birders from around the world. More than 35 species of spring New World warbler have been seen, including the golden-winged warbler, magnolia warbler, Northern parula, tropical parula,"
"after about ten to eleven days. More than one brood may be raised in a season. Grey-breasted prinia The grey-breasted prinia or Franklin's prinia (""Prinia hodgsonii"") is a wren-warbler belonging to the family of small passerine birds found mainly in warmer southern regions of the Old World. This prinia is a resident breeder in the Indian subcontinent, Sri Lanka and southeast Asia. Like other prinias, it often holds the tail upright but it is easily told by a smoky grey band across the breast which contrasts with a white throat. The beak is all black while the legs are pink."
"Spring peeper The spring peeper (""Pseudacris crucifer"") is a small chorus frog widespread throughout the eastern United States and Canada. They are so called because of their chirping call that marks the beginning of spring. There are two subspecies: Spring peepers are tan or brown with a dark cross that roughly forms an X on their dorsa (thus the Latin name ""crucifer"", meaning cross-bearer), though sometimes the marking may be indistinct. They have a body length between less than to and a mass between . The species has large toe pads for climbing, although it is more at home amid"
"Red-breasted flycatcher The red-breasted flycatcher (""Ficedula parva"") is a small passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family. It breeds in eastern Europe and across central Asia and is migratory, wintering in south Asia. It is a regular passage migrant in western Europe, whereas the collared flycatcher which breeds further west is rare. This is because of the different migration direction. The Asian species ""Ficedula albicilla"", previously considered a subspecies of the red-breasted flycatcher, has the red throat surrounded by grey and a different song. It is usually now separated as the taiga flycatcher (Pallas, 1811). The breeding male of"
"Red-fronted tinkerbird The red-fronted tinkerbird, (""Pogoniulus pusillus"") is a small African barbet. Barbets are near-passerine birds with bristles around the base of the bill. They have a world-wide tropical distribution. The red-fronted tinkerbird is a widespread and frequently common resident breeder in eastern South Africa, with a separate population from southern Sudan and Ethiopia south to central and eastern Tanzania. It is sometimes considered conspecific with its northern counterpart, the yellow-fronted tinkerbird, ""Pogoniulus chrysoconus"". The red-fronted tinkerbird is associated with juniper forest and scrub. It nests in a tree hole and lays two or three eggs. It eats berries and"
"favor this species, which prefers more open, sunlit areas in which to breed. Red warbler The red warbler (""Cardellina rubra"") is a small passerine bird of the New World warbler family Parulidae endemic to the highlands of Mexico, north of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. It is closely related to, and forms a superspecies with, the pink-headed warbler of southern Mexico and Guatemala. There are three subspecies, found in disjunct populations, which differ primarily in the color of their ear patch and in the brightness and tone of their body plumage. The adult is bright red, with a white or gray"