blackcap

[ UK /blˈækkæp/ ]
NOUN
  1. chickadee having a dark crown
  2. small black-headed European gull
  3. raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
  4. small brownish-grey warbler with a black crown
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How To Use blackcap In A Sentence

  • Nightingale, blackcap, skylark, blackbird, woodlark — those are the songs humans go for. Times, Sunday Times
  • Yellow buttercups and blue speedwells in the grass, leaves eager with fresh rain in trees above; chiffchaff and blackcap singing; she was not dead yet. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • Great-spotted woodpeckers drum while chiffchaffs, blackcaps, chaffinches and wrens sing their hearts out.
  • Meanwhile birds like blackcaps and chiffchaffs, which are wintering closer to home, are less likely to face bad timing with their food supply.
  • Great-spotted woodpeckers drum while chiffchaffs, blackcaps, chaffinches and wrens sing their hearts out.
  • The cuckoo arrived five days early this year, and birds like the blackcap and the chiffchaff are increasingly over-wintering in the UK rather than migrating to Africa.
  • We have planted over 800 native trees along the embankment, creating a wonderful habitat for warblers such as whitethroat, garden warbler and blackcap.
  • Blackthorn blossom foams along the sides of shorn hedgerows but grows unchecked with willow catkins and flowering gorse bushes in neglected thickets which shelter the returned chiffchaff and blackcap. Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley
  • In the same way with the beccafico and the blackcap; these change into one another. The History of Animals
  • It is expected the chorus will include the blackcap, willow warbler and chiffchaff and others.
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