eastern kingbird

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   a kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America; distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail

   Broaderkingbird

Questions about eastern kingbird

What does eastern kingbird mean?

eastern kingbird means "a kingbird that breeds in North America and winters in tropical America; distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail".

Is eastern kingbird a common word?

eastern kingbird is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.