stonechat

IPA: stˈɑnɪkʌt

Any of various small Old World passerine birds of the genus Saxicola that feed on insects.

Examples of "stonechat" in Sentences

The Siberian Stonechat is insectivorous.
Edolius occurs here, another stonechat has come in.
I just learned that the stonechat is a bird, but this yarn speaks to me of bricks.
Bulbul, _hazari dastar_, the famous songster, is not a real _bulbul_, but either Alaudina or a stonechat.
The first shows a male who returns to give the cameraman a quick encore; the second shows a stonechat not eating a centipede.
Actually we heard two cuckoos, a stonechat and curlews, saw a heron, skylarks and countless warblers and the sun shone for most of the run without getting too hot.
The bird species confined to Réunion are the Réunion cuckoo-shrike (Coracina newtoni, EN), Réunion stonechat (Saxicola tectes), Réunion olive white-eye (Zosterops olivaceus), and Réunion bulbul (Hypsipetes borbonicus).
He makes a fist and hammers it against his skull to bring forth robin redbreast, stonechat, crow, while the rest of us raise our hands with what we think are the right answers and hold our breaths trying hard not to laugh.
At the time when folk go hunting with the sparrow-hawk and with the hound, which seeks the lark and the stonechat and tracks the quail and the partridge, it happened that a knight of Thrace, a young and sprightly noble, esteemed for his prowess, had one day gone a-hawking quite close beside this tower; Bertrand was the knight's name.