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ˈhay-bird
1. A name given locally to various small birds that build their nests with hay, esp. of the genera Sylvia and Phylloscopus, as the Blackcap, Garden Warbler, and Willow-Wren.
1802G. Montagu Ornith. Dict. (1833) s.v., A much more compact structure than the Hay-bird usually makes. Ibid. s.v. Pettychaps, Lesser, Dr. Latham says [the lesser Pettychaps] is called in Dorsetshire the Hay-bird. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 24 Blackcap..Hay bird (Northants). 1889H. Saunders Man. Brit. Birds 64 In many places the Willow-Wren is also known as the Hay-bird.
2. The Pectoral Sandpiper or Grass-snipe, Tringa maculata. (New Jersey, U.S.) |