redstart

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English *redstert; equivalent to red +‎ start (“tail”). Compare Dutch roodstaart, Danish rødstjert.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdstɑɹt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

redstart (plural redstarts)

1. Any of various insectivorous ground-feeding birds, mainly of the genus Phoenicurus. Many of the species have a red tail.
2. (Canada, US) A species of warbler native to the Americas, Setophaga ruticilla, only distantly related to Phoenicurus.

Derived terms

• American redstart
• black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros)
• blue-capped redstart (Phoenicurus coeruleocephala)
• blue-fronted redstart (Phoenicurus frontalis)
• common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)
• Daurian redstart (Phoenicurus auroreus)
• Eversmann's redstart (Phoenicurus erythronotus)
• Güldenstädt's redstart (Phoenicurus erythrogastrus)
• Hodgson's redstart (Phoenicurus hodgsoni)
• Luzon water redstart (Phoenicurus bicolor, syn. Rhyacornis bicolor)
• Moussier's redstart (Phoenicurus moussieri)
• plumbeous water redstart (Phoenicurus fuliginosus, syn. Rhyacornis fuliginosa)
• Przevalski's redstart (Phoenicurus alaschanicus)
• water redstart
• white-capped redstart (Phoenicurus leucocephalus)
• white-throated redstart (Phoenicurus schisticeps)

Translations

ground-feeding bird

Afrikaans: rooistert Arabic: حَمِيرَاء (ḥamīrāʔ) Armenian: կարմրատուտ (hy) (karmratut) Basque: buztangorri Breton: rulosteg m Bulgarian: градинска червеноопашка f (gradinska červenoopaška) Catalan: cotxa (ca) f Czech: rehek (cs) m anim Danish: rødstjert (da) c Dutch: roodstaart (nl) m Esperanto: ruĝvostulo Estonian: lepalind Finnish: leppälintu (fi) French: rougequeue (fr) m Georgian: ბოლოცეცხლა (bolocecxla) German: Rotschwanz (de) m Greek: κοκκινούρης m (kokkinoúris) Ancient: φοινίκουρος m (phoiníkouros) Hebrew: חַכְלִילִית m (kakhlilit) Hungarian: rozsdafarkú (hu) Ido: redakaudo (io) Ingrian: leppälintu, leppolintu Irish: earrdheargán m Italian: codirosso (it) m Kazakh: қызылқұйрық (qyzylqūiryq) Kyrgyz: кышкуйрук (kışkuyruk) Latin: phoenicurus m Latvian: erickiņš m Lithuanian: raudonuodegė f Luxembourgish: Routschwanz m Malayalam: റെഡ്സ്റ്റാർട്ട് (ṟeḍsṟṟāṟṭṭŭ) Manx: thoyn-yiarg f Navajo: tseełchiiʼí North Frisian: ruadstört m Norwegian: Bokmål: raudstjert m Nynorsk: raudstjert m Picard: rouche-tcheue m Polish: pleszka (pl) f Portuguese: rabirruivo (pt) m Romanian: codroș (ro) m Russian: горихво́стка (ru) f (gorixvóstka) Scottish Gaelic: eàrr-dearg m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: црвѐнрепка f Roman: crvènrepka (sh) f Slovak: žltochvost m Spanish: colirrojo m, abanico (es) m Swedish: rödstjärt (sv) c Turkish: kızılkuyruk (tr) Ukrainian: горихвістка f (horyxvistka) Vietnamese: chim đỏ đuôi Welsh: tingoch m, coch y berllan m West Frisian: readsturtsje n

References

• redstart on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Phoenicurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Phoenicurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons