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whinchat
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whin·chat  (hwncht, wn-)
n.
A small brownish Old World songbird (Saxicola rubetra) often found in open country.
whinchat [ˈwɪnˌtʃæt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, having a mottled brown-and-white plumage with pale cream underparts: subfamily Turdinae (thrushes)
[from whin1 + chat1]
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Noun1.whinchat - brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadowswhinchat - brown-and-buff European songbird of grassy meadows
Saxicola rubetra
Old World chat, chat - songbirds having a chattering call
Translations
whinchat [ˈwɪnˌtʃæt] n (Zool) → staccino
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Whinchats, ring ouzels and wheatears were at many coastal locations: the highest count was 105 wheatears at RSPB Penrhosfeilw, near South Stack.
bird notes by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Dunlins declined in 59% of the South Pennines sites surveyed, meadow pipits in 29%, wheatears in 46%; twites in 80% and ring ouzels in 64% In contrast, the curlew increased in 108% of South Pennine sites, with whinchats increasing in 136%.
WATCHING THE BIRDIES by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
As the trees grow to their middle years, they act as song posts for whinchats and warblers and home to goldcrests and coal tits.
Kielder: It's so much more than just trees by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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