wagtail's Usage Examples:

beautiful, bright green demoiselles were everywhere, providing food for a pair of nesting gray wagtails.

greyppers and gray wagtails can often be seen near the weir.

Birds of passage include the buzzard, kite, quail, wild fowl of various kinds, golden thrush, wagtail, linnet, finch and nightingale.

A dry well grazed area produced three woodchat shrikes along with masked shrike, 3 species of wheatear and hundreds of flava wagtail species.

Characteristic types common to the whole country are the teal, snipe, golden plover and wagtail.

The open grasslands produced more Great bustards, Collared pratincole, lots of lapwing, redshank and blue headed wagtails.

The greater number of birds belong to the order Passeres; starlings, weavers and larks are very common, the Cape canary, long-tailed sugar bird, pipits and wagtails are fairly numerous.

A friendly wagtail poses for the camera on the giant lily pad.

Among the smaller birds may be enumerated finches, the siskin, bullfinch, pipit, titmouse, wagtail, lark, fine-crested wren, hedge-sparrow, corn-wren, nut-hatch, starling, swallow, martin, swift, thrush, butcher bird, shrike, dipper, yellow-hammer, ortolan and a warbler (Accentor alpinus).

The first man that turns up--she forgets her father and everything else, runs upstairs and does up her hair and wags her tail and is unlike herself!Wild life spotted eagle, grouse, mountain hare, red deer, roe deer, gray wagtail.

A Lapland Bunting passed over at the Bill, where the bulk of visible passage otherwise consisted of Linnets and alba wagtails.

Starlings (muku-dori) are numerous, and so are the wagtail (sekirei), the swallow (tsubame) the martin (ten), the woodchat (mozu) and the jay (kakesu or kashi-dori), but the magpie (tOgarasu), though common in China, is rare in Japan.

Synonyms:

oscine bird, oscine, genus Motacilla, Motacilla,

Antonyms:

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