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great northern diver

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great northern diver
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a large northern bird, Gavia immer, with a black-and-white chequered back and a black head and neck in summer: family Gaviidae (divers)
Translations
great northern diver n (Zool) → tuffatore m dei ghiacci
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If gales and rain were not enough to convince you it's winter, six whooper swans on the Conwy estuary, Slavonian grebes off Aber and a great northern diver off Rhos Point confirm it.
bird notes by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Wherever you go on the island, you are never far from a loch or from bird life - herring gulls, terns, oyster-catchers, shelducks and the Great Northern Diver in full breeding plumage before it departs at the end of May.
Holiday: Mull over delights of blissful break; SUNDAY Mercury reader ... by Shaw, Alice / Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Great northern divers were off Rhos-on-Sea, Point Lynas, Penmon and Point of Ayr, with red-throated diver and a long-tailed duck off Penrhyn Bay.
bird notes by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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