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kiskadee
[ kis-kuh-dee ]
noun
- any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pitangus, especially P. sulphuratus great kiskadee, ranging from the southwest U.S. to Argentina and noted for their loud calls and aggressive nature.
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Origin of kiskadee1
Example Sentences
So the researchers waited until a kiskadee was perched near a stream.
As our guide announces termite mounds sitting like enormous mud balloons in the crooks of trees, a Kiskadee bird with its sunshiny belly, and snake cactus that has coiled round and round a horizontal branch like an insistent noose, I do the now math.Â
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Without summer's tourist crush, you can enjoy the friendly toot of ferry horns on the harbor and the call of the kiskadee, a local songbird.
At half-past five a kiskadee shouted at the top of his lungs from the bamboos, but he probably had a nightmare, for he went to sleep and did not wake again for half-an-hour.
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