| 单词 | red-billed quelea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred-billed quelea Any of the three African weaver birds of the genus Quelea (family Ploceidae), the males of which have either a black face or a red head; esp. (in full red-billed quelea) Q. quelea, which occurs in large flocks and is a major pest of grain crops. Also quelea bird; also called dioch. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > family Ploceidae > [noun] > subfamily Ploceinae (weaver) > other or unspecified types of mountain spink1611 ring sparrow1678 oxbird1738 fody1792 mountain finch1800 fox-sparrow1869 grasshopper sparrow1883 quelea1930 1930 C. F. Belcher Birds Nyasaland 316 (heading) Black-fronted Quelea. 1964 New Scientist 18 June 736/1 The Black-Faced Dioch (Quelea quelea), commonly known as the Quelea bird. 1979 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 287 300 If Quelea are learning to eat maize, should it not be an immediate short-term policy to control all such colonies? 1998 Britannica Online (Version 98.2) Queleas breed in thorn-scrub country: every bush and tree for miles around may contain hundreds of their globular nests. red-billed quelea red-billed quelea n. a sparrow-like African weaver bird, Quelea quelea (family Ploceidae), which occurs in huge flocks and is a major pest of crops; cf. dioch n. ΚΠ 1911 4th Rep. Wellcome Trop. Res. Laboratories B 167 It [sc. the Franciscan Bishop-bird, Pyromelana franciscana] does not occur in any such immense numbers as the red-billed Quelea referred to in the next genus.] 1940 A. Roberts Birds S. Afr. 344 (heading) Quelea quelea lathami. Red-billed Quelea. 1978 Ibis 120 333 (title) The role of the crop among red-billed queleas Quelea quelea. 2005 Trav. Afr. Autumn 40/4 The red-billed quelea. Endemic to Africa, it's the most numerous bird in the world. < as lemmas |
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