“red-breasted”

The following 7 entries include the term red-breasted.

red-breasted goose

noun

: a Siberian goose (Branta ruficollis) that is chiefly black-and-white with a chestnut breast

red-breasted merganser

noun

: a widely distributed merganser (Mergus serrator) of Europe and America having in the male a reddish breast band separated from the green head by a conspicuous white collar

red-breasted nuthatch

noun

: a nuthatch (Sitta canadensis) of coniferous forests having the upper parts bluish gray and black and the underparts white and reddish

red-breasted rail

noun

: virginia rail

red-breasted sandpiper

noun

red-breasted sapsucker

noun

: a sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius ruber) of western North America

red-breasted snipe

noun

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