单词 | sand lark |
释义 | sand larkn. 1. British regional. Any of various small shorebirds or waders, esp. a sandpiper. Cf. sand laverock n.Now chiefly in lists of alternative names for these birds. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Charadrius > charadrius hiaticula (ringed plover) sea-lark1602 ringlestonesa1682 stone-runner1681 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 ring-necked plover1750 towillee1758 sand lark1771 ringed plover1776 ring dotterel1797 ring plover1797 dulwilly1802 ring-neck1837 ringed sand plover1842 stonehatch1852 miller1885 sand-runner1894 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa hypoleucos (common sandpiper) sea-lark1602 sandpiper1674 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sand lark1771 summer snipe1794 shad-bird1879 fiddler1885 the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > genus Calidris > calidris alpinus (dunlin) stint1519 dunlin1531 oxbirda1547 sea-lark1602 purre1611 ox-eye1612 jack snipe1664 spar1668 pickerel1684 sand laverock1694 sandy laverock1710 sea-snipe1767 plover's page1771 sand lark1771 red-back1813 red-backed sandpiper1813 ebb-sleeper1837 oxybird1887 simpleton1890 plover's provider1892 sand-runner1894 1771 T. James Hist. Herculean Straits II. iii. viii. 358 There is the goldfinch, wheat ear, yellow hammer, now and then the woodcock, and the snipe, wild duck, teal, widgeon, sand lark, bat, particularly in St. Michael's cave, which swarms with them. 1800 W. Wordsworth Idle Shepherd-boys 24 Along the river's stony marge The sand-lark chants a joyous song. 1831 J. Rennie Montagu's Ornithol. Dict. (ed. 2) 448 Sand Lark, a name for the Ringed Plover, and the Sandpiper. 1904 Irish Naturalist 13 39 The Dunlins (Tringa alpina, Linn.) are pre-eminently the Sandlarks of our northern shores. 2005 M. Cocker & R. Mabey Birds Britannica 225/2 Common Sandpiper, Actitis hypoleuca... Sand Lark (Orkney). This is the small brown migrant wader of upland rivers and lochs. 2. Australian. The red-capped plover, Charadrius ruficapillus, a small Australian plover having a white forehead and underparts, grey-brown upperparts, and a reddish-brown crown. ΚΠ 1773 J. R. Forster Jrnl. 30 May in ‘Resolution’ Jrnl. (1982) II. 289 I shot a Shag, my Son two Sand Larks. 1814 M. Flinders Voy. Terra Australis II. 145 On the shores were pelicans..and sand-larks. 1867 W. Richardson Tasmanian Poems Pref. 11 The nimble sand-lark learns his pretty note. 1977 D. Dorward Wild Austral. i. 21 Little birds' eggs were fun for boys to cook, so the ‘sand-larks’ (red-capped dotterel) and the spur-winged plovers breeding on the island would not have had a chance to hatch. 2019 I. Fraser & J. Gray Austral. Bird Names (ed. 2) 59 Red-capped Plover (breeding resident)... Other names: Red-capped Dotterel; Red-necked Plover; Sand-lark, for its familiarity and active behaviour. 3. Any of several larks, esp. those which constitute the genus Ammomanes, native to deserts and dry stony regions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia and having dull brownish-grey plumage. Cf. desert-lark n. at desert n.2 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Alaudidae > other types of short-toed lark1837 sand lark1867 sabota lark1884 bar-tailed lark1937 1867 Ibis 3 64 Ammomanes isabellina... I found this beautiful Sand-Lark abundant near Cairo in the month of January. 1905 A. R. Wallace My Life I. 335 The skeletons of camels—hundreds of them—lay all along the road; vultures, sand-grouse and sand-larks were occasionally seen. 1985 B. Campbell & E. Lack Dict. Birds 320/1 Sand larks (Ammomanes)..build a rampart of pebbles on the windward side of the nest. 2018 H. Shirihai & L. Svensson Handbk. Western Palearctic Birds I. 76 The first clue in recognising Sand Lark in the field is its stocky or compact jizz. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1771 |
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