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wheatear::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | thrush |
Examples of wheatear
wheatear
It is a haven for skylark, flocks of greenfinch, yellowhammer, wheatear and sparrow hawk.
From the independent.co.uk
It was a female wheatear, on Blackford Moor, a mile or so behind my home.
From the guardian.co.uk
The heath is home to small birds such as grouse, meadow pipit, ring ouzel and wheatear in the summer.
From the guardian.co.uk
Head east on the bridleway for Fremington Edge, where you might see black grouse, wheatear, curlew and lapwing.
From the guardian.co.uk
Members of two other species of migrating bird, the wheatear and the chiffchaff, were also found to have stayed in Britain all winter.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Just over four years to the day after I first saw one here, there was a wheatear perched on the hay in the very same field.
From the guardian.co.uk
The most important habitat in the West Midlands for upland bird species such as merlin, hen harrier, golden plover, raven, kestrel, curlew, skylark, and wheatear.
From the independent.co.uk
The wheatear is one of more than a dozen kinds of migrant songbird, including flycatchers, chats and warblers, which pass through our parish at this time of year.
From the guardian.co.uk
As I watch the wheatear bobbing up and down on the roll of hay, I wish it well, and look forward to welcoming it again next spring, as it passes through my home patch once more, on its way north.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Small songbird of northern America and Eurasia having a distinctive white rump
- The wheatears are passerine birds of the genus Oenanthe. They were formerly considered to be members of the thrush family Turdidae, but are now more commonly placed in the flycatcher family Muscicapidae. ...
- A decorative motif resembling an ear of wheat.
