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Definition of avocet in English: avocetnoun ˈavəsɛtˈævəˌsɛt A long-legged wading bird with a slender upturned bill and strikingly patterned plumage. 反嘴鹬 Genus Recurvirostra, family Recurvirostridae: four species, in particular R. avosetta of Eurasia, which has black-and-white plumage Example sentencesExamples - Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges.
- Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.
- Birders can watch migratory species such as endangered clapper rails, dowitchers, and American avocets from the platform at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary.
- There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
- Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.
OriginLate 17th century: from French avocette, from Italian avosetta. Definition of avocet in US English: avocetnounˈævəˌsɛtˈavəˌset A long-legged wading bird with a slender upturned bill and strikingly patterned plumage. 反嘴鹬 Genus Recurvirostra, family Recurvirostridae: four species, including the American avocet (R. americana), which has black and white plumage Example sentencesExamples - There are herons, ducks, geese, ospreys, eagles, vultures, pelicans, gulls, plovers, avocets, storks, francolins, guinea fowls and many more.
- Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges.
- Currently, visitors to the flats are likely to see sandpipers, avocets, oystercatchers, godwits, dowitchers, plovers and other shorebirds on their way south.
- Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.
- Birders can watch migratory species such as endangered clapper rails, dowitchers, and American avocets from the platform at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary.
OriginLate 17th century: from French avocette, from Italian avosetta. |