Saw my first eastern kingbird of the season on Sunday at Colt State Park in Bristol, RI.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

I saw a kingbird on a telephone wire as I pedaled out and a redwinged blackbird as I rode back.    From Wordnik.com.  [One for the birds] Reference

Later on I watch a piping plover harassing and attacking a common grackle and then an eastern kingbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [partly cloudy or partly sunny] Reference

Mid morning, my first eastern kingbird of the season perched on a piece of driftwood behind me and made his presence known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

I have observed mockingbirds terrorize even larger groups of starlings, so I have no doubt that a kingbird could do it, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [an interesting sight] Reference

The kingbird builds an untidy nest in an apple tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

The widespread fear of the kingbird seems unfounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition] Reference

(Perhaps the kingbird has some reason to be pugnacious!).    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

To return to my kingbird, struggling with his early song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

For a moment it appeared the kingbird had stopped attacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio] Reference

"Aha! You missed your opportunity!" said Kate to the kingbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Land] Reference

This was satisfactory, for I did not know the kingbird in domestic life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

As the kingbird rode bareback on the hawk, it pecked away at the hawk's head.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio] Reference

In this respect their habits are much like those of their cousin, the kingbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

As usual, the kingbird united the characters of brave defender and tender lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

With none of these intruders had the kingbird any quarrel when away from his nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

Of the flycatchers, I have noted the kingbird, the least flycatcher, and the phoebe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

We asked him one day if there was any bird in America that the kingbird couldn't whip.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of My Boyhood and Youth] Reference

It looked exceedingly like "showing off," and who could imagine a kingbird in that rôle!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

It is really a big, heavy kingbird, fiercer and more powerful than any northern kingbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

I once saw a kingbird doing the same thing, and so it may be a fashion in flycatcher circles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Bird Comrades] Reference

A kingbird sailed into view and perched on a brush - heap preparatory to darting after the moth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Land] Reference

The calmness and dignity of this hawk, when attacked by crows or the kingbird, are well worthy of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference

The kingbird and the oriole worry her life out of her because her babies like eggs -- as who does not!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

For five minutes the air was full of kingbird cries, both old and young, and then fell a sudden silence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

The curious antics of a solemn kingbird, who did not suspect his hidden observer, were droll to look upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

May birds, the kingbird, the wood thrush, the oriole, the orchard starling, and the warblers, build in June.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers] Reference

Another visitor of whom the kingbird seemed suspicious was a purple crow blackbird, who every day passed over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

Considering the size and the belligerent nature of the kingbird, I was astonished, but exactly thus it happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Nesting Time] Reference

Common summer resident; occurs only on plains and in foothills up to 6,000 feet; same form as the eastern kingbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

I heard the song sparrow and the kingbird also, like watchers calling the hour, and several times I heard the cuckoo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference

Bees were humming around the clover in the grass, and the kingbird chattered ceaselessly from the Lombardy poplar tip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prairie Folks] Reference

A.M. to eight P.M., that I had not the kingbird and his nest directly in sight, and hardly a movement of his life escaped me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

"Awesome" photo a hit for Westminster birder - A kingbird rides bareback and harasses a red tail hawk at Bonny Lake State Park.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALNEO for all - Regional Economics Action Links North East Ohio] Reference

One kingbird, at least, shall be studied sympathetically; we shall try to enter his life, to judge him fairly, and shall above all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

The kingbird happened to be near it himself, and drove her away in an indifferent manner, as if this interloper were of small account.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

The same robin bullied the red-headed woodpecker, and flew at the kingbird when he brought his young family up to taste the raspberries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference

It was near the end of a lovely June day, when June days were nearly over, that there appeared a gentle excitement in the kingbird family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Brothers of the Air] Reference