Definition of "ouzel" []

• A water ouzel. (noun)

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• "Insects now enrich the air, frogs pipe cheerily in the shallows, soon followed by the ouzel, which is the first bird to visit a glacier lake, as the sedge is the first of plants."
• "However, they misspelled the word "ouzel," which is a type of blackbird."
• "The numbers were smaller over the two magic days of 2007, when I saw only one ring ouzel and that single redstart, but the island was still strewn with birds: there were thrushes all up the cliffs, robins along the stone walls."