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Black-crowned night heron - Wikipedia
In the Falkland Islands, the bird is called quark, which is an onomatopoeia similar to its name in many other languages, like qua-bird in English, kwak in ...
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Quail - Wikipedia
Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds generally placed in the order Galliformes.
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Night Heron, or Qua bird - National Audubon Society
The flight of the Night Heron is steady, rather slow, and often greatly protracted. They propel themselves by regular flappings of the wings, and, like the true ...
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qua-bird
qua-bird U.S. (ˈkwɑːbɜːd) Also 8 quaw-. [f. qua, imitative of its note + bird n.] The Night Heron of North America, Nycticorax nævius or Gardeni.1789–96 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 212 Quaw-bird or Frog Catcher. 1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 471 The Night Heron or Qua Bird..is found in both the old and new world. 1...
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qua-bird - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From qua (“the sound of its call”) and bird. Noun. edit · qua-bird (plural qua-birds). The American night heron.
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Quail Facts
Quail are birds that are typically found in small flocks, otherwise known as "coveys." In late spring and early summer, coveys begin to break up as pair bonds ...
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Quail Bird Facts - RSPB
Quails are more likely to be heard than seen. Listen out for their distinctive “pick-per-wick” call. Their breeding range reaches as far north as the UK.
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qua-bird, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
The earliest known use of the noun qua-bird is in the late 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for qua-bird is from 1792, in the writing ...
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Night Heron or Qua Bird. · Audubon's Birds of America
Dublin Core ; Title. Night Heron or Qua Bird. ; Subject. Audubon, John James, 1785-1851, artist · Bien, Julius, 1826-1909, lithographer · Lithographs Color.
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California Quail Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The California Quail is a handsome, round soccer ball of a bird with a rich gray breast, intricately scaled underparts, and a curious, forward-drooping head ...
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Gambel's Quail Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Gambel's Quail are gregarious birds of the desert Southwest, where coveys gather along brushy washes and cactus-studded arroyos to feed.
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Black-crowned night heron
1914) – Falkland Islands
In the Falkland Islands, the bird is called quark, which is an onomatopoeia similar to its name in many other languages, like qua-bird
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quawk
▪ I. quawk, n. U.S. (kwɔːk) Also quark, quauk, quock. [Imitative; cf. quawk v. and squawk n.] 1. The black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax, which is widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions; = qua-bird.1844 J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. II. 227 The Black-crowned Night Heron, or Quawk...
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night-heron
ˈnight-heron Ornith. [f. night n. + heron.] A heron of the genus Nycticorax, represented in Europe by N. griseus or europæus; the common American species is N. nævius or gardeni, the Qua-bird.1784 Pennant Arct. Zool. II. 450 Night Heron. 1813 Wilson Amer. Ornith. VII. 105 The food of the Night Heron...
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