veery

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

Probably imitative of the bird's call. Attested since the 19th century.

On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whippoorwill, the brown-thrasher, the veery, the wood-pewee, the chewink, and other birds. — Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
I suppose if one had King Solomon's fayland ears, one might hear the Dogwood music like a lot of church bells pealing, like the chorus of the cathedral where Woodthrush is the preacher-priest and the Veeries make responses. — Woodland Tales, Ernest Thompson Seton

Wilson's thrush, Hylocichla fuscescens

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