| 单词 | black-crowned night-heron |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack-crowned night-heron Any of various small, short-necked herons of the genera Nycticorax and Gorsachius, which are active chiefly at or after dusk; esp. (more fully black-crowned night-heron) N. nycticorax, which has a black crown and back, and is found throughout much of Eurasia, Africa, and America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Ciconiiformes (storks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ardeidae (herons and bitterns) > genus Nycticorax (night-heron) Nycticorax1688 shitepoke1775 Quaker1776 night heron1785 qua-bird1792 mudpoke1809 quawk1844 nankeen crane1872 squawk1872 1785 T. Pennant Arctic Zool. II. ii. 450 (heading) Gardenian and Night heron. 1813 A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. VII. 105 The food of the Night Heron, or Qua-bird, is chiefly composed of small fish. 1844 J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. II. 227 The Black-crowned Night Heron, or Quawk,..derives its popular name from the deep gutteral cry. 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 189/1 I have frequently found upon the breast of the night-heron a yellow oily powder. 1926 A. C. Bent Life Hist. N. Amer. Marsh Birds 197 The familiar night heron or ‘quawk’ is one of the best known and most widely distributed of our herons. 1950 Caribbean Q. 2 41 Nor were the larger and stronger Yellow crowned Night Herons, to be outdone. 1989 New Scientist 1 July 57/3 We saw flocks of heron and night herons together with waders that we saw nowhere else in China. < as lemmas |
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