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n. - Small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump.

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  • As a matter of fact, the winter home of the wheatear is Africa.
  • Of old the best wheatear country was above Rottingdean; but the South
  • Down shepherds no longer have the wheatear money that used to add so appreciably to their wages in the summer months.
  • Now, though, the sun shone through the haze and the wheatear flew off over the leaning moor to join a single glider high overhead.
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