These names come from its distinctive plump tail and sharp, barking defensive call.
Their angled wing and distinctive forked tail make them easy to identify.
In many ways he resembles a pug, except that pugs have a distinctive curved tail.
The slim, silvery fish with the distinctive forked tail is impossible to mistake.
"Since we don't have such distinctive tails, maybe we'd better just call our names."
This root also appears in the names of birds with distinctive tails, like the redstart.
Apart from the distinctive tail it has a highly reflective body.
The lizard can clearly be distinguished because of its distinctive blue tail.
The bird has a distinctive scarlet tail with faint patches of red on its head.
It is plain brown above except for the distinctive black tail with red side patches.