| 释义 |
Definition of pied wagtail in English: pied wagtailnoun A bird of a black-and-white race of the white wagtail, found in the British Isles, Spain, and Morocco. Motacilla alba yarrelli, family Motacillidae Example sentencesExamples - Then a pair of pied wagtails take over and spend hours trawling the grass for insect life, especially those hapless creatures that fall from the oak tree in search of a safe place down in the grass roots in which to over-winter.
- To the majority of nurserymen, pied wagtails are hardly welcome because they foul tomatoes, and chrysanthemums and carnation blooms.
- A survey of the birds who visited the cemetery in 1999 recorded blue tits, bull finches, pied wagtails and wood pigeons.
- Wild creatures, such as the pied wagtail, use the longer grass for nesting.
- Elsewhere in the country an exceptionally large reedbed roost in Hampshire once held over 180 grey wagtails in company with 100 pied wagtails.
|