Examples of “redstart” in a Sentence

noun Any of various small insect-eating birds, mainly of the genus Phoenicurus, many of which have a red tail.

• A redstart flicked its tail on the garden wall.
• Many redstarts have a red tail.
• She photographed a redstart hunting insects on the ground.
• We saw a redstart in the trees near the lake.

noun In Canada and the United States, a warbler of the Americas, Setophaga ruticilla, which is only distantly related to the other redstarts.

• The American redstart is a warbler.