| 单词 | dotterel |
| 例句 | Scotland is home to Arctic specialists - birds like dotterel, snow bunting and ptarmigan - which are found high on Scotland's mountains. Frozen Planet: Filming climate change in action on an Arctic glacier 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Soon the island has lost its terns and its rails and its dotterels, but it has an abundance of rats. Opinion | The Pandemic, From the Virus’s Point of View 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z It warned birds such as kittiwakes and dotterels were particularly vulnerable. RSPB in climate change action call 2014-03-30T23:43:57Z A dotterel goes plaintively piping over the stones, and the "cheep, cheep," of the awakening ling-birds rises from every brae. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z Last night we had dotterel and sandpipers for dinner, this morning greenshanks, which are very good birds indeed. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z Four foxes were the only land animals we saw; and a small hawk, some gulls, dotterels, and phaleropes, composed the list of birds. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Game, pheasants, fowls, partridges, larks, hares, dotterels, wild ducks, teal, snipes, widgeon, grouse.—Fish. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families The dotterel is a bird which is very easily caught, and it was from this fact that it got its name, which comes from dote, to be "silly" or "feeble-minded." Stories That Words Tell Us In spring, "trips" of rare dotterel often led us about the higher hills for days, and sometimes we had to stay all night on the mountain. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z All kinds of waterfowl are at all seasons abundant in the Nile waters, and especially frequent the pools left by the retiring river—pelicans, geese, ducks, ibises, cranes, storks, herons, dotterels, kingfishers, and sea-swallows. Ancient Egypt In the second were all kinds of game and wild-fowl, roast herons three in a dish, bitterns, cranes, bustards, curlews, dotterels, and pewits. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Among the dainties of the feathered kind, enumerated in this entertainment, Mr. Nichols mentions herons, bitterns, godwites, dotterels, shovelers, curlews, and knots. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Other names of birds not quite so common used to describe stupid people are dotterel and dodo. Stories That Words Tell Us This poor dotterel, Sir Arthur, is playing fast and loose with me. Anna St. Ives Do but hear the chiming dotterel gabble in rhyme. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 If the dotterel's eggs were put down among grass, or even among the clods of ploughed land, they would be equally difficult to find. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies As we pursued our journey homewards on the following day, we passed several flights of dotterel making to the south, this being the first migration we had observed in that direction. Expedition into Central Australia Newton, A., on the throat-pouch of the male bustard; on the differences between the females of two species of Oxynotus; on the habits of the Phalarope, dotterel, and godwit. The Descent of Man The resemblance of the dotterel's egg to a pebble is no greater than the resemblance between many eggs laid in nests and pebbles. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies I'll maintain they are, ye dotterels, and will prove it to your brazen faces, by justice—I mean, this trusty piece of cold iron by my side. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 It has even been put forward that the colours of their eggs are intended to deceive; and those of the dotterel, laid on the open beach, are often mentioned as an instance. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies |
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