10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AWLBIRD»
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Observations of the naturalhistory of the swallowtribe: with ...
PICVS MINOR. Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Witwall. PICVS VILLOSVS. Hairy
Woodpecker. *PICVS VIRIDIS. Green Woodpecker, Woodspite, Rainbird, Rain-
fowl, Highhoe, Hewhoe, Awlbird, Yappingale^ Yaffle or Yaffn, Woodwall,
Poppinjay, ...
Thomas Forster, Edward Forster, 1817
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History of British animals: exhibiting the descriptive ...
P. viridis. Green WVoodpecker.—Plumage, above, green; beneath, grey ; the
crown red. Will. Orn. 93. Sibb. Scot. 15. Linn. Syst. i. I75. Penn. Brit. Zool. i. 240.
Temm. Orn. i. 391.-._E, Rain-fowl, High-hoo, Hew-hole, Awlbird, Yappingall,
Yafler, ...
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A Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds
Francis Orpen Morris, William Bernhard Tegetmeier. GREEN WOODPECKER
ECLE — LARGE GREEN WOODPECKER — WOODSPITE — HIGH HOE— HEW
-HOLE— PICK-A-TREE— POPINJAY— RAIN-BIRD— RAIN-FOWL— WHITTLE ...
Francis Orpen Morris, William Bernhard Tegetmeier, 1896
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The Encyclopedia of British Birds: Including Every Rare ...
Local names applied to the Avocet are Awl- bird, Cobbler's Awl, Clinker, Barker,
and Yelper, the last derived no doubt from its angry call when driving off intruders
. AWLBIRD. Local name for Avocet (q.v.). AX1LLARIES (L. axilla, " armpit ").
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The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition
... miombo, timber 07 boscage, boskage, coppice, spinney, thicket 10 plantation
woodpecker 05 Picus 06 yaffle, yucker 07 awlbird, flicker, piculet, witwall 08
hickwall, rainbird 10 yaffingale wood sorrel 03 oca 06 oxalis 08 shamrock woody
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Nature neighbors, embracing birds, plants, animals, ...
FACIE Accentor, Aquatic 406 Acknowledgments 12 Albatrosses 39 Anblnga 51
Avocet 117 Avócets 103 Awk, Little 38 Awlbird 471 Baldpate 63 Bat, Bull 239 Bec
a Lancette 81 Beetle Head 143 Billy, Old 77 Bird, Bay 126 Bead 151 Brant 150 ...
Nathaniel Moore Banta, Gerard Alan Abbott, 1914
The shape of the beak is thus very like a cobbler's awl and, in the days when
avocets were common in England, it was locally known as the Awlbird. This
curious shape of beak is adapted to the bird's method feeding on the surface film
of water ...
J. M. Winterbottom, Cornelis Janse Uys, 1969
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Auguries & omens: the magical lore of birds
Folknames of woodpeckers are numerous: GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER:
French Pie, Pied Woodpecker LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER: Barred
Woodpecker, French Heckle, Crank-bird GREEN WOODPECKER: Awlbird,
Cutbill, ...
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British birds' nests: how, where and when to find and ...
Local and other names: Rainbird, Popinjay, Awlbird, Yaffle, Tongue Bird, Gaily,
Rain-fowl, Pick-a-tree, Whetile, Woodwale, Wood-speight, Yaffingale. A close
sitter, often occupying the same nest year after year, when not stolen by Starlings.
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New Official Vocabulary for Telegrams in Preconcerted ...
... Axedonis Awk Axedonum Awkly Axeformed Awkness Axehead Awkward
Axeheads Awkwardly Axehelve Awl Axeman Awlbird Axenus Awlclip Axerasina
Awless Axérasine Awllike Axes Awlmaker Axeshaped Awlpoint Axestone Awls
Axform ...
International Telegraph Bureau, Bern, 1899
