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单词 redshank
例句 redshank
There’s a screen to shield wild birds, including redshanks, from passing walkers and cyclists, and hides to peek through. Make tracks: ride the world's newest cycling routes 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z
It has the highest breeding densities of northern lapwing and redshank in the world. The race to save Polesia, Europe's secret Amazon 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z
The landscaping project is intended to attract birds including marsh harriers, bitterns, common cranes, lapwings and redshanks. Expanded nature reserve 'could protect homes' 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z
The reality is that the Nordmann’s greenshank is a dull, anonymous thing, indistinguishable to most eyes from the pulsing masses of sandpipers, stints, and redshanks flecking Asia’s shores during migration. East of Siberia: A Spoon-Billed Curiosity 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z
By attaching transmitters to 20 birds, a team from Exeter University monitored how artificial light affected the feeding habits of the common redshank. Light pollution 'helps wildlife' 2012-11-28T14:35:19Z
Cranes bred successfully but birds like snipe, redshank, gargony and lapwing had their "worst year ever". Can UK wildlife cope with drought? 2012-02-27T01:23:45Z
Small birds there are, of course, in numbers, such as wag-tails, sandpipers, and the oddly crying and flying redshank, a shore bird. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z
A pack of avocets swept by in chattering flight: ruffs and redshanks, green sandpipers, and others of that class, with whole troops of plovers, splashed and preened in the shallows. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z
The muddy shores swarmed with water-birds—herons, whimbrel, redshanks, and others—and we surprised a monstrous crocodile, little less than 20 feet long, who rushed into the stream long before our guns were ready. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z
The heron, the snakebird, and the redshank, waded through the shallow drifts; and geese, widgeon, teal, and mallard, rose whirring in the air at every step. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z
Lapwing and redshank birds, which nest at Marshside, are among those under threat in the UK. Llamas recruited as bouncers at nature reserve 2010-04-27T06:42:00Z
Kearton somewhere relates how he once induced a blackbird to sit on the eggs of a thrush, and a lapwing on those of a redshank. Birds in the Calendar
For me it was harder work than for the active redshanks. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
As the car jolts along past "Hag's Valley," a dozen curlews take wing, and a little further on the shrill cry of the redshank strikes on the ear. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
It had the soft quality, soft yet piercing, of a redshank's, but it shuddered like an owl's. Lore of Proserpine
And apparently she would be very pleased if her husband would come out of the hole and make room for her to stuff the redshank into it. The Way of the Wild
The call of the redshanks, the cloud shadows that moved over the marshes like the footprints of invisible presences, made her feel calm. The Judge
“I had it from one of the redshanks.” Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
Several varieties of ducks, uttering their different cries and calls, eider ducks, whistlers spotted redshanks, “old women,” those loquacious birds whose beak is never closed, skimmed the surface of the lake. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude
Plovers, redshanks, terns, ducks, especially the wild mallards, are increasing. The Naturalist on the Thames
He came upon a redshank's nest in a tuft of grass. The Way of the Wild
But nothing came to her save the memory of the cold, wet, unargumentative cry of the redshanks that she had heard on the marshes. The Judge
Sometimes it was to defend ourselves from the hungry redshanks who itched to dig their daggers into some body, little matter whose. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
Sometimes one can pick them out; thus, on the borders of a marsh where redshanks bred, I have heard the call of that bird distinctly given by the thrush. Birds in Town and Village
In an adjacent reclaimed harbour they took the eggs of ducks, plovers, redshanks, and even larks. The Naturalist on the Thames
He knew the breed, and would have given a lot not to have molested that redshank's abode and be found there. The Way of the Wild
When Richard comes he will take you on the sea-wall and show you the redshanks in the little streams among the mud. The Judge
Then came the strange part of the procession, for at the heels of these English cavaliers stalked fifty huge redshanks with the McDonnell’s heather in their bonnets, and their hands on their sword-hilts. Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess
"Bedad," said the Galway boy, "they mean to scoot like redshanks." The Green Flag
Stints and ringed plover, golden plover and redshanks were flitting everywhere from island to island on the mud and ooze; curlews were floating and flapping over the "fleets"; and all were in security. The Naturalist on the Thames
The other day I disturbed a brood of redshanks here, the parent birds flying round and round, piping mournfully, almost within reach of my hand. At Large
Unpeopled earth seemed to her desirable as unadulterated food; the speech of man among the cries of the redshanks would have been to her like sand in the sugar. The Judge
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