redstart

English

common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus)

Etymology

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

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

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
• West Frisian: readsturtsje n

References

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