The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word REDSTART
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result REDSTART
- Bird’s colours sharp
- Singer's blushing debut
- Maybe cherry’s sour for bird
- Bird from street protected by shopkeeper, given lift
- Liverpool FC’s sharp winger
- Bird reportedly studied by celebrity twitcher originally
- Dealer upset to receive stone for songbird
- Revolutionary movement with wings?
- Winger studied recording before kick-off
- Bird being studied heard before dawn
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What does REDSTART mean?
REDSTART noun- Any of various insectivorous ground-feeding birds, mainly of the genus Phoenicurus. Many of the species have a red tail.
- An unrelated species of warbler native to the Americas, Setophaga ruticilla