kingbird

IPA: kˈɪŋbɝd

Examples of "kingbird" in Sentences

I saw a kingbird on a telephone wire as I pedaled out and a redwinged blackbird as I rode back.
Later on I watch a piping plover harassing and attacking a common grackle and then an eastern kingbird.
Mid morning, my first eastern kingbird of the season perched on a piece of driftwood behind me and made his presence known.
I have observed mockingbirds terrorize even larger groups of starlings, so I have no doubt that a kingbird could do it, too.
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.
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.