brown rock chat

English

Noun

brown rock chat (plural brown rock chats)

  1. A bird species, Oenanthe fusca, found in northern and central India; an individual of this species.
    Hypernyms: rock chat < bird < animal < creature
    • 1916, Douglas Dewar, A Bird Calendar for Northern India, page 35:
      From the housetops the brown rock-chat begins to pour forth his exceedingly sweet lay.
    • 2022 August, Gargi Mishra, “A chatting rockstar”, in Gobar Times, page 3:
      Finally, it was this early-riser’s vivid avian call—melodious songs with multiple notes like those of a thrush—which left us spellbound. […] Hence, we were compelled to rediscover this special guest—the quintessential Brown Rock Chat or, simply, the Indian Chat.
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