How To Use Wagtail In A Sentence
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They are ground birds, with very long hind toes and claws, like those of skylarks, and they have a habit of running about like wagtails, though without flicking their tails.
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_solopachium_, meaning a "mannikin eighteen inches high"; Saumasius proposes salopygium, a "wagtail"; several editors have _salaputium_, an indelicate word nurses used to children when they fondled them, so that the exclamation would mean, "what a learned little puppet!
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
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I observed a pair of ringed plovers, a new species for me, a common redshank, two dozen black-winged stilts and a yellow wagtail.
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It would seem quite natural to call the wagtail "lady-bird," if that name had not been registered by a diminutive podgy tortoise-shaped black and red beetle.
Afoot in England
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Two other species of wagtail also breed in Britain, the grey and yellow wagtails.
Birdwatch: Pied wagtail
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These conditions resulted in many migrants (including red footed falcons, red throated pipits and grey-headed wagtails) all travelling far to the west of normal routes from Africa to northern breeding grounds.
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You might sweat a little when summer temps reach 104 degrees, but just think: No noise to drown out the songs of the African skimmers, wagtails, and stints.
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Others identify more intimate ambassadors: the first dashing yellow daffodil, the rising dawn chorus of birdsong, the earliest appearance of frogspawn in ponds and ditches, the first cut of grass, a pied wagtail over ploughed land and yellow catkins dangling from hazel branches all symbolise spring's arrival for someone.
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
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Each day there seemed to be something special that we saw or heard: the aquatic warbler, a citrine wagtail, a rosefinch, a penduline tit flying in and out of its nest or a bittern booming.
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A water wagtail bobbed its way up the boulders towards the linn, up past where Huntley had lain.
A DEATH IN TIME
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Some pipits and wagtails are solitary, and others are gregarious.
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The forktail, however, has many of the habits of the true wagtail.
Birds of the Indian Hills
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Forest wagtails, flycatchers, rose-ringed parakeet and black-crested buzzard always made the metro their home.
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Adult pipits and wagtails have a number of avian predators among the falcons and hawks and owls (Strigiformes).
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After admiring the wagtail for a while, I went on until at last I reached the Round Tower.
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The Yellow Wagtail is widely distributed throughout the Old World and has colonized Alaska in the New World.
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The previous classification of wagtails clearly conflicts with the mtDNA divisions.
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Others identify more intimate ambassadors: the first dashing yellow daffodil, the rising dawn chorus of birdsong, the earliest appearance of frogspawn in ponds and ditches, the first cut of grass, a pied wagtail over ploughed land and yellow catkins dangling from hazel branches all symbolise spring's arrival for someone.
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
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For example, several lineages typically excluded from the nine-primaried oscines do have nine functional primaries per wing (e.g. larks and wagtails).
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Forest wagtails, fly catchers, black crested buzzard, open billed storks and egrets are some of the migratory birds one can sight at the Guindy National Park during winter.
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Mallard duck, grey wagtail and occasionally kingfishers frequent the waterside. 6.
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Both pipits and wagtails bathe in shallow standing water.
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More than 350 bird species can be found here as well, including forest birds such as woodpeckers, orioles, and magpies, and water birds such as wagtails, sandpipers, and forktails.
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Grey wagtails are resident, and often found along fast-flowing rivers and streams, while the yellow wagtail is purely a summer visitor, found mainly in wet-meadows such as those on Tealham Moor, a short distance from my home.
Birdwatch: Pied wagtail
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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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By birds I don't mean panhandling pigeons, but self-supporting warblers, wheatears, grosbeaks, ducks, thrushes, egrets, pheasants, finches, redstarts, hawks, swallows, wagtails, owls, the list goes on.
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Birds with restricted range include the spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus), Jananese Robin (Erithacus akahige), Bull-headed Strike (Lanius bucephalus), and the Forest Wagtail (Motacilla lutea).
South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
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Despite their names they are often confused with one another, as the grey wagtail is a striking bird with plenty of lemon-yellow in its plumage.
Birdwatch: Pied wagtail
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What was generally made use of consisted of vervain, tenia, and hippomanes; or a small portion of the secundine of a mare that had just foaled, together with a little bird called wagtail; in Latin motacilla.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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I'm sure floor sweepings swept out doors and vacuum cleaner dust spilt outside also have these threads in them and tangle in wagtails' feet.
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There's a bench here and you could spend time looking out for moorhens, coots, wagtails and warblers, and the fish that attract them.
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He pointed out that not only pigeons live in the South Parade area, but ravens, jackdaws, collared doves, blackbirds, thrushes, wagtails, tits and the now-endangered house sparrow.
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Other birds I saw near the pond were coot, moorhen, purple swamphen and a few Gray Wagtails walking around near the water.
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This forktail is a trifle larger than a wagtail, and its tail is over 6 inches in length.
Birds of the Indian Hills
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Most pipits and wagtails are migratory, although some southern species may be residents.
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Something in the style of the birds recalls the wagtail, though they are so much larger.
The Open Air
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Something about its appearance puzzled me: too long-tailed for meadow pipit, but not elegant enough for a wagtail.
Birdwatch: Water pipit
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The farm also has breeding Willow Tit, Grey wagtail and Sparrowhawk.
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail.
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Swallows were chasing insects over the water and I watched dippers and grey wagtails feeding their young.
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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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Among the birds - valued at 5.1 million forints - were yellow wagtails, field larks, sparrows and pipits.
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For the Ainu the demiurge is the water wagtail; [458] for the Navahos and in
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV
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Their farm is a haven for black grouse, lapwing, yellow wagtail, redshank, snipe and golden plover.
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
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And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
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Birds with restricted range include the spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus), Jananese Robin (Erithacus akahige), Bull-headed Strike (Lanius bucephalus), and the Forest Wagtail (Motacilla lutea).
South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
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On 12 th April, 2 hoopoes, 2 wrynecks, a nightingale, 2 citrine wagtails, a black-eared wheatear, 15 redstarts, a whinchat, a robin, a Menetries’ and 23 willow warblers, a spotted flycatcher and 4 scaly-breasted munias were in Mushrif Palace Gardens.
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They plant the kind of crops on which not only the pheasant feed, but also thousands of wagtail, curlew, lark, pipit, finch, plover and other species that have been in decline for years.
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Pipits and wagtails can be found in a variety of habitats from temperate to tropical and polar regions.
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Skylarks, one of Britain's most endangered birds, can be spotted near the sixth fairway, common lizard, brown hare and hen by the ninth and pied wagtail, wheatear and spotted flycatcher by the 18th.
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The gums were full of budgies, skawking and whistling their parodies of songbirds; finches wheeled from branch to branch; two sulphur-crested cockatoos sat with their heads to one side watching her progress with twinkling eyes; willy-wagtails fossicked in the dirt for ants, their absurd rumps bobbing; crows carked eternally and mournfully.
The Thorn Birds
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There were birds everywhere, of all types - hoopoes, wagtails, tits, finches, and sparrows and swallows nesting in the beams of the house; there were cuckoos singing by day and nightjars by night.
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Large trees attract the familiar ‘kuil’ and coppersmith barbet, apart from wagtails.
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Also noteworthy was that at least 10 of the red-backed shrikes, one of the lesser greys and both the wagtails and whinchats were taking advantage of the extensive new Presidential Palace Hotel lawns.
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Forays off the beaten path led me to a common stonechat, a white wagtail, a plain leaf warbler, and a number of species in the shrike family; great grey shrike, masked shrike, and red-backed shrike.
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Other birds I saw near the pond were coot, moorhen, purple swamphen and a few Gray Wagtails walking around near the water.
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Mak your wife a gowdspink, and she'll turn a water-wagtail.
The Proverbs of Scotland
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My bird list included long-tailed tit, greenfinch, mistle thrush, collared dove, pied wagtail, great tit and a particularly coloured male bullfinch.
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Is it known that the pretty pied water-wagtail is called la lavandière from its love of water and its manner of beating up and down its tail as our washerwomen wield their wooden beaters?
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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Other birds I saw near the pond were coot, moorhen, purple swamphen and a few Gray Wagtails walking around near the water.
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But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies.
Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
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Wagtails and sandpipers squeak and dart amongst the thick glossy hyacinth leaves, and at the muddy edges, bluethroats scuttle this way and that like mice.
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Resident birds include kingfisher, dipper and grey wagtail and on most days of the year the heron can be seen.
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On the stones I watched a dipper and a pair of grey wagtails.
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Sunnyhurst Brook, which runs the length of the woods, is known among the birdwatching community as an excellent place to spot kingfisher, grey wagtail, dipper and heron.
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The British race, the pied wagtail, has a much darker back: almost black in the male, compared with pale grey in the white wagtail.
Birdwatch: Pied wagtail
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In the low Syrian Mesquite bushes we found a stonechat and a few white wagtails running around.
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They are ground birds, with very long hind toes and claws, like those of skylarks, and they have a habit of running about like wagtails, though without flicking their tails.
