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lapwing

[ UK /lˈæpwɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs

How To Use lapwing In A Sentence

  • Here flocks of cranes, geese lapwings, curlews, cushats and other birds stop here during their transmigration.
  • (March-Cock) from its returning in that month, and our old writers "lapwing" (Deut. xiv. Arabian nights. English
  • The haunts of the mallard, the snipe, the redshank, and the bittern, have been drained equally with the summer dwellings of the lapwing and the curlew. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 531, January 28, 1832
  • A lot of birds from lapwings, robins, mynas, flycatchers, sunbirds, tailorbirds, warblers, babblers, barbets, francolins, orioles, pigeons and doves have nested on our property.
  • Elephants, clouded leopards, spotted linsang, boar and deer thrive below the canopy, which is filled with the song of myna, lapwings, laughing thrushes and other exotic birds. The Guardian World News
  • So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
  • So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
  • Otters, badgers, kestrels, lapwing, buzzards and kingfishers are just a few of the animals and birds under threat along the Clanrye River between the Belfast and Tandragee Roads north of Newry.
  • He has 120 breeding pairs of waders on his land, including lapwings, curlews and redshanks.
  • The shocking results from the county are that no breeding pairs of curlew, lapwing, redshank, snipe or oystercatcher were recorded on the sites surveyed.
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