It is the opinion of some naturalists that birds never die what is called a natural death, but come to their end by some murderous or accidental means; yet I have found sparrows and vireos in the fields and woods dead or dying, that bore no marks of violence; and I remember that once in my childhood a redbird fell down in the yard exhausted, and was brought in by the girl; its bright scarlet image is indelibly stamped upon my recollection.
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
And westward dips the crescent of the moon Through great cloud-feathers, flushed with rosy ray, That close around the crystal of her lune The redbird wings of Day.
"Kentucky Poems"
Madison J. Cawein Commentator: Edmund Gosse
You told me she was all right a little while ago, and I tell you I don't like-" "Miss Chadron was as bright as a redbird when I saw her this afternoon," King assured him, calmly.
"The Rustler of Wind River"
G. W. Ogden