How To Use Lapwing In A Sentence
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Here flocks of cranes, geese lapwings, curlews, cushats and other birds stop here during their transmigration.
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(March-Cock) from its returning in that month, and our old writers "lapwing" (Deut. xiv.
Arabian nights. English
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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
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A lot of birds from lapwings, robins, mynas, flycatchers, sunbirds, tailorbirds, warblers, babblers, barbets, francolins, orioles, pigeons and doves have nested on our property.
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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
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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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.
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He has 120 breeding pairs of waders on his land, including lapwings, curlews and redshanks.
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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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The moorland blaze has come at a bad time for ground-nesting birds such as golden plovers, curlews, lapwings and merlins, a rare bird of prey.
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Large flocks of lapwings have been seen heading south in many places.
Times, Sunday Times
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Spot-breasted plover, Vanellus melanocephalus (formerly, Tylibyx melanocephalus and Hoplopterus melanocephalus; protonym, Lobivanellus melanocephalus), also known as the spot-breasted lapwing, photographed at Bale Mountains (also known as the Urgoma Mountains), Ethiopia (Africa).
Mystery bird: Spot-breasted plover, Vanellus melanocephalus
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Rare bird species, including wading birds such as the curlew, lapwing and snipe, would also be reintroduced to the site under the plans.
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A network of mini-reserves on Lakeland hills could provide vital havens for declining bird species like yellowhammers, reed buntings and lapwings, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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Field walls dip below the surface, old railway sleepers rot in the grass, lapwings and more oystercatchers paddled in the shallows with their young.
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When I began birding three waders: lapwing, redshank and snipe were all common breeders in many areas of Norfolk.
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Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing.
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Lapwings, also known as peewits due to their distinctive call, have white and greeny-black plumage topped by an elegant crest.
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In one example, a scarlet ibis, mounted in a case on a broken piece of highly gorgeous china gaselier; in another, two puppies facing each other on velvet, a piece of rock salt in the middle, on which stood a lapwing, surrounded by foreign birds in all attitudes.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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Other birds like snipe, brambling, lapwing and willow tit will struggle to find suitable habitats further north.
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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Rare bird species, including wading birds such as the curlew, lapwing and snipe, would also be reintroduced to the site under the plans.
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Moorland ground nesting birds, such as curlew, lapwing, merlin and golden plover, are vulnerable to disturbance from humans and dogs, as well as predators, such as crows and foxes.
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The Peak District provides some of the last remaining habitats for golden plover, lapwing, curlew and twite.
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The wet fields were drained and converted to arable and any lapwing rash enough to make a nest could be guaranteed to have it rolled out of existence as the growing wheat was cultivated.
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Sheep eyed us all the way, lapwing cried, a skylark ascended to the clouds and an electronic bleep made Lesley check her camera.
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Lapwings are another of the country's favourite birds.
Times, Sunday Times
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These animals become food for over 150,000 wading birds including knot, lapwing and golden plover.
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When I began birding three waders: lapwing, redshank and snipe were all common breeders in many areas of Norfolk.
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Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing.
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Areas already under stewardship have seen a marked increase in previously declining bird species, including the stone curlew, bittern, lapwing, reed bunting, greenfinch, pipit, twite, and wagtail.
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Once-common bird species like the skylark and lapwing are on the point of disappearing.
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The Abyssinian longclaw is considered near-endemic to this ecoregion, as are the moorland chat (Cercomela sordida), Abyssinian waxbill (Estrilda ochrogaster), moorland francolin (Francolinus psilolaemus), Rueppell's chat (Myrmecocichla melaena), ankober serin (Serinus ankoberensis), and spot-breasted lapwing (Vanellus melanocephalus).
Ethiopian montane moorlands
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The development of this wildlife site is ongoing with new hides to aid the study and photography of shelduck, dunlin, lapwing, golden plover and shoveller duck that have recently bred on Mangan's Lough.
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Kearton somewhere relates how he once induced a blackbird to sit on the eggs of a thrush, and a lapwing on those of a redshank.
Birds in the Calendar
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No doubt it was looking for prey such as the lapwing chicks.
Times, Sunday Times
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This coincides with the recent northern expansion of other wet-grassland waders, such as the common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) in the Bolshemelzkaya tundra [14], the black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa), and the northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) in northern Russia concomitant with a northward expansion of agriculture including sown meadows [15].
Recent and projected changes in arctic species distributions and potential ranges
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The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
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Suddenly hundreds of lapwing, redshank and dunlin all took wing, rapidly climbing high above the flooded flats.
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Kibitz The flycatcher (also called lapwing, pewit, and other names) is an insectivorous bird with an irritating cry.
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Among the birds which have suffered catastrophic losses over the past 30 years are the tree sparrow, grey partridge, lapwing, curlew, snipe, skylark, corncrake, corn bunting, black and red grouse.
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The moorland nests of skylarks, curlews, lapwings and twite are being bulldozed to make way for concrete pits.
Times, Sunday Times
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The farm itself has good numbers of breeding birds and is home to yellowhammers, linnets, corn buntings, tree and hedge sparrows, along with lapwings and grey partridge.
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The lapwing is a kind of plover, and is very swift of foot.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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Coots, ducks and flamingos clustered around the fringes of shallow tarns whilst great flocks of upland geese, buff-necked ibis and lapwing settled on the plains to feed.
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The moorland blaze has come at a bad time for ground-nesting birds such as golden plovers, curlews, lapwings and merlins, a rare bird of prey.
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The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
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On farmland, the numbers of song thrushes fell by 66 per cent between 1972 and 1996, of bullfinches by 62 per cent, of skylarks by 75 per cent, of linnets by 40 per cent, of spotted flycatchers by 78 per cent and of lapwings by 46 per cent.
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It is hoped that birds such as the lapwing, skylark and redshank will increasingly use the sites as well as butterflies such as the green hairstreak.
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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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This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl.
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Lapwings are of much more urgent conservation concern than newts.
Times, Sunday Times
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Breeding birds include lapwing, snipe and redshank, all of which have declined nationally in recent years.
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Other residents include egrets, moor hens, herons, coots, white-necked storks, lapwings, grey wagtails, grebes, black droungos, green bee-eaters, tailorbirds, magpies and robins as well as numerous species of migratory birds like flamingos that often visit the place.
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Where once there were acres of grain, there are now acres of barnacle geese; where sheep once grazed, there are widgeon and teal; lapwing and redshanks have replaced the cattle; his new crops are spoonbills, snipe, skylarks and linnets.
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From below and almost through the middle of these lapwings blasts a denser flock of wigeon with even greater urgency.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Their farm is a haven for black grouse, lapwing, yellow wagtail, redshank, snipe and golden plover.
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He has 120 breeding pairs of waders on his land, including lapwings, curlews and redshanks.
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Walking the ancient driftway through the marshes, we paused by the derelict drainage mill to watch the aerial manoeuvres of a mixed flight of golden plovers and lapwings.
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The waders, curlews, plovers and lapwing were there long before the hedgehogs were introduced.
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We'd pulled the car up on the hills east of Rosedale and three yards the other side of the glass a cold wind quivered a lapwing's crest.
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It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse.
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This species, which is endemic to marshes and moorlands located in the Ethiopian highlands, is very much like the northern lapwing, V. vanellus, found in Europe: it is a relatively tame, noisy bird with a swerving flight that feeds on the ground, making short runs and sudden stops.
Mystery bird: Spot-breasted plover, Vanellus melanocephalus
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Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
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Cony Rabbit Dunghill Cock Also called a hoope, bird that nestles in ordure, the lapwing.
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Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing.
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Sometimes a hare will hide in the nest made by a lapwing.
Times, Sunday Times
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a big kind of lapwing and snipe; but the snipe here were cunning, and got up wild and flew far, so I only got a small bag.
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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I watched lapwings competing for nest sites on the damp fields where I also saw pheasants, grey partridges, teal and mallards.
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The lapwings have gone, along with the curlews and redshanks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The airport attracts corvids, rooks, crows, lapwings and wood pigeons among others.
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But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews.
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It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse.
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The Humber Estuary supports more than 150,000 birds each year including knot, lapwing, golden plover and breeding little terns.
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It was pleasant to see a vast desert of lapwings, for these birds have quite disappeared from the part of North Cheshire in which I live.
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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.
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The Peak District provides some of the last remaining habitats for golden plover, lapwing, curlew and twite.
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She said the lapwing (or peewit) is also under pressure with its numbers being reduced by 40 per cent over the past 40 years.
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However, lapwings are thriving in the uplands on managed grouse moors and the fields surrounding them.
Times, Sunday Times
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Peewit is in fact another common name for lapwings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many resident birds can also be spotted here like the yellow-wattle Lapwing or the common bee-eater.
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The moorland blaze has come at a bad time for ground-nesting birds such as golden plovers, curlews, lapwings and merlins, a rare bird of prey.
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After a bit, one of them flew up, circled round, splashed into the water and flew off with a fish, getting mobbed by Lapwings.
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This development attracts passage migrant waders, nesting lapwing and redshank together with winter wildfowl.
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I watched lapwings competing for nest sites on the damp fields where I also saw pheasants, grey partridges, teal and mallards.
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The very birds seemed to shun these wastes, and no wonder, since they had an easy method of escaping from them; — at least I only heard the monotonous and plaintive cries of the lapwing and curlew, which my companions denominated the peasweep and whaup.
Rob Roy
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The spot-breasted lapwing is distinguished from its close relatives by the fleshy wattles in front of its eyes and by its black-spotted breast.
Mystery bird: Spot-breasted plover, Vanellus melanocephalus
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Lapwings are drifting away from the moors and farms where they nested on the ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scottish Natural Heritage says the creatures prey on eggs and are jeopardising the populations of birds such as lapwings and oystercatchers.
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Conservationists are now hoping for fine weather this year to give the tiny chicks of birds such as lapwing, curlew, redshank and snipe a chance of survival.
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The farm itself has good numbers of breeding birds and is home to yellowhammers, linnets, corn buntings, tree and hedge sparrows, along with lapwings and grey partridge.
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Hawk and heron, teal and lapwing make a habitat in the tall brush and skimpy trees.
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Lapwings wheeled and tumbled over the meadows, brown hares scampered in the long grass.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the second week in December 1992 legions of lapwings again descended on the tideway.
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Once common species such as the snipe, lapwing and curlew have seen declines of up to 73 per cent; birds like the twite, a moorland version of the linnet, are now gone from some parts of the park.
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So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
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A new survey has revealed that populations of waders such as lapwing, curlew and snipe are thriving because land is being managed with their needs in mind.
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The heather provides safe havens for ground nesting birds like curlew, lapwing, merlin, golden plover and the black grouse and the Moorland Association wants walkers to help keep the moors special.
