Sentence examples for white blackbird from inspiring English sources

From the first, even among artistic geniuses, Picasso was clearly the white blackbird, the rara avis.

W. W. - The particular white or partially white blackbird referred to has been about for some considerable time; I know it well.

Two related Asian Turdus thrushes, the white-collared blackbird (T. albocinctus) and the grey-winged blackbird (T. boulboul), are also named blackbirds, and the Somali thrush (T. (olivaceus) ludoviciae) is alternatively known as the Somali blackbird.

Snowy blackbirds, flying cats.

On Broad Street, which is also U.S. Route 80 to Montgomery, they turned left, and as segregationist loudspeakers along the way blared "Bye, Bye, Blackbird" and the white onlookers began to jeer, the marchers approached and crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

And I consider myself blessed because, for eight years, my all-time favourite bird, the ring ouzel (a blackbird-sized thrush with a white crescent on its chest), has stopped off here on its migratory path.

They resemble blackbirds with a bright, white crescent across their breasts and they are birds of hills and mountains.

The strange thing about the arrival of this migratory blackbird of the moors, whose white gorget, wild song, and regular ground-nesting habits distinguish it from the lowland relative which we know sometimes too well, is that it is usually seen in its upland Lancashire, Yorkshire, or Cheshire haunts before it is noticed on the South Coast.