sea-larkn.
1. A local name for various small birds frequenting the sea-shore, as (a) the ringed plover, Ægialitis hiaticula; (b) various sandpipers, as the dunlin, Tringa alpina, and the sanderling, Calidris arenaria; (c) the turnstone, Strepsilas interpres; (d) the sea-titling or rock-pipit, Anthus obscurus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > arenaria interpres (turnstone)
sea-lark1602
turnstone1674
sea-dotterel1676
stone-pecker1731
whale-bird1771
bullfinch plover1864
tangle-picker1882
turkey-bird1885
jinny1888
sparked back (plover)1888
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
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Anthus > anthus spinoletta (water-pipit)
sea-lark1602
rock-lark1771
rock pipit1830
water pipit1831
shore pipit1837
sea-titling1872
tang-sparrow1880
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 35 Amongst the first sort, we reckon the Dip-chicke..Coots, Sanderlings, Sea-larkes [etc.].
1676 F. Willughby & J. Ray Ornithologiæ 230 Charadrius sive Hiaticula. The Sea-Lark.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 23 With bills very short—the Lapwing,..the Turnstone, and the Sea-lark.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 512 Sand-Lark and Sea-Lark are likewise names often given to some of the smaller members of the Limicolæ.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Blennioidei > family Blenniidae > member of genus Blennius (blenny) > blennius pholis (smooth blenny)
stone-fish1668
mulgronnick1673
bulcard1674
sea-lark1694
shan1713
smooth shan1713
smooth blenny1769
shanny1836
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. iv. iii A Sea-Lark..is a Fish..with cartilaginous Wings..by the means of which, I have seen them fly about three Fathom above Water.
1740 R. Brookes Art of Angling ii. xix. 124 The Sea-Lark or Bulcard.
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