| 单词 | mackerel bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmackerel bird mackerel bird n. (a) Channel Islands (Guernsey), the wryneck, Jynx torquilla; (b) a young kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus tridactylus (kittiwake) kittiwake1661 tarrock1674 petrel1770 haglet1803 kitty1806 tickle-ace1819 wake-up kittle1832 mackerel bird1879 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > jynx torquilla (wryneck) wryneck1585 jynxa1657 yunx1694 barley-bird1766 long tongue1822 cuckoo's mate1831 snake-bird1831 pea-bird1838 writheneck1840 rinding-bird1849 weet-bird1863 mackerel bird1879 felling bird1883 turkey-bird1885 1879 C. Smith Birds of Guernsey 94 The Wryneck..arriving..about the same time as the mackerel, wherefore it has also obtained the local name of ‘Mackerel Bird’. 1882–4 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Birds (ed. 4) III. 654 Mr. Cordeaux says that the Flamborough fishermen call the young Kittiwakes ‘Mackerel-birds’, because they usually appear at sea with their parents in August when the fish are approaching the coast. 1889 Clarke's Guernsey News 12 Apr. 2/5 The mackerel bird was heard at St. Martin's on Sunday last. < as lemmas |
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