How To Use Dotterel In A Sentence
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Head eastwards across the grassy plateau to Ben Tirran, keeping an eye out for the birds that inhabit Scotland's high moorlands - curlew, ptarmigan, skylarks singing as they rise and, if you're lucky, the shy dotterel.
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For wader enthusiasts each spring provides an opportunity to discover a trip of dotterel.
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Then they objected to the wrong kind of shells being used in rebuilding some nests for dotterels.
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Several migratory wader species are regular visitors to the island, principally are double-banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus, eastern golden plover Pluvialis dominica, turnstone Arenaria interpres, whimbrel Numenius phaeopus and bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica.
Lord Howe Island Group, Australia
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Here are, amongst others, the beautiful golden-ringed and dotterel plovers of Europe, and the
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It has even been put forward that the colours of their eggs are intended to deceive; and those of the dotterel, laid on the open beach, are often mentioned as an instance.
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Notable bird species composition includes snowcock (Tetragallus altaicus) and dotterel (Eudromias morinellus).
Khangai Mountains alpine meadow
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Scottish Natural Heritage, the government's conservation agency, has pointed out that Scotland's mountain birds, like the dotterel and the ptarmigan, are also vulnerable to climate change.
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The report highlights the plight of 20 species, including the song thrush, the corncrake, the crossbill, the capercaillie, the dotterel and black grouse.
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A high-level two kilometre ridge walk traverses huge swathes of green mosses and sedge, a breeding ground for dotterel.
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Home to such rare birds as the dotterel as well as a host of arctic wildlife, it is protected by European law.
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Several migratory wader species are regular visitors to the island, principally are double-banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus, eastern golden plover Pluvialis dominica, turnstone Arenaria interpres, whimbrel Numenius phaeopus and bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica.
Lord Howe Island Group, Australia
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As we pursued our journey homewards on the following day, we passed several flights of dotterel making to the south, this being the first migration we had observed in that direction.
Expedition into Central Australia
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I saw three dotterels the other weekend.
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The report highlights the plight of 20 species, including the song thrush, the corncrake, the crossbill, the capercaillie, the dotterel and black grouse.
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Cairngorm, an ancient home to rare birds like eagles, dotterels and ptarmigan, is a world-class mountain that has rightly attracted a welter of international conservation designations.
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Shore bird numbers are declining, he says, particularly among oystercatchers, red-capped dotterels and beach thick-knees.
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The mountain, home to rare birds such as the dotterel and a host of precious arctic wildlife, is one of Britain's most ecologically important mountains.
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He told me with great delight that two dotterels and their chick were further up the beach.
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Banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus and New Zealand falcon Falco novaezeelandiaeare also present.
Tongariro National Park, New Zealand
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The name generally applied to birds of the genus Charadrius, which also includes the dotterel.
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River bed invertebrates support a diverse birdlife including wrybill Anarhynchus frontalis, paradise shelduck Tadorna variegata, black-billed gull, black-fronted tern Sterna albistriata and banded dotterel Pluvialis obscura.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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Overgrazing on upland pastures is causing the decline of native species including skylarks, curlews and dotterels.
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Up to 74 shorebird species have been sighted here, with a peak of 40,000 migratory birds utilizing the Firth at one time, including the New Zealand dotterel (Charadrius obscurus VU) and more than half of New Zealand's wrybill population.
Northland temperate kauri forests
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Volunteer beach clean-ups were cancelled earlier on Tuesday due to the weather and the fact that the beaches were virtually clear of oil, but work continues to protect wildlife in the area, particularly the dotterel, an endangered New Zealand bird.
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We used video cameras to monitor nests of the banded dotterel (Charadrius bicinctus), to test whether conventional nest monitoring increased the chances of nests being visited by predators.
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Shore bird numbers are declining, he says, particularly among oystercatchers, red-capped dotterels and beach thick-knees.
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On the other hand, species like the dotterel and snow bunting look set to head northwards, leaving British shores for colder climes.
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The decline of the New Zealand dotterel is due to several factors, but in particular, introduced predators such as cats, stoats and ferrets.
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Shore bird numbers are declining, he says, particularly among oystercatchers, red-capped dotterels and beach thick-knees.
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The wrybill's close cousin, the banded dotterel, favours the sides of rivers, lakes, open land with sparse vegetation and coastal lagoons and beaches.
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Such are the dotterel (Eudromias morinellus), several species of phalarope, an
Darwinism (1889)
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In May, the rare dotterel is found in small flocks, called trips.
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The birds' arrival locally each spring was eagerly awaited… they were netted wholesale, an operation simplified by the fact that all those years ago the dotterels visited the same fields annually.
