Definition of "white-rumped" [white-rumped]

• Having a white rump or white upper tail-coverts: specifying various birds.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica."
• "The white-rumped shama began singing again, its whistling warbling song, and this helped him change the subject."
• ""It's a white-rumped shama thrush," Lionberg said."