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Перевод: lapwing

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Тезаурус:

1. The lowering of water-levels to allow ploughing of damp pasture has removed the nesting habitat of many birds which we used to take for granted, such as snipe, lapwing, and redshank.
2. LAPWING - Vanellus vanellus
3. According to the society, water voles, otters, redshank, snipe and lapwing and wetland plants such as marsh orchid and bog pimpernel had declined as a result of over-abstraction and drainage over many years.
4. It forms the primary nesting area for a number of specialised species, particularly Lapwing, Redshank, Snipe, and Yellow Wagtail, and probably Reed and Sedge Warblers.
5. Where curlew and redshank and lapwing repose
6. It is often stated that the greater speed of modern farming operations and the larger machines used cause increased losses in ground-nesting species such as the Lapwing.
7. A quirk of the Lapwing's distribution in Sussex is that it is very scarce or absent as a breeding bird from many suitable parts of the East Sussex Downs.
8. Pevensey Levels where 15,000-plus Lapwing, 1,200-plus Snipe, and 2,000-plus Golden Plover have been counted recently is perhaps the prime area, but five-figure flocks of Lapwing are not unusual elsewhere, and every suitable area will attract flocks of several hundred Snipe.
9. In addition the levels hold large winter flocks of Lapwing, Snipe, and Golden Plover.
10. A few days later, immediately alongside the busy M40, a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds, as closely-packed as starlings, extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field, and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and "goldies," all immobile, and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep.
11. Again, an estimate of numbers was difficult, but I am confident that there were well over 1,000 of the "goldies", and almost as many lapwing.
12. An estimate of numbers was impossible in the few seconds available at the pause, but on the return journey, about an hour later, something had awakened them and a most spectacular aerial display was in progress - the two species had reacted differently to whatever had disturbed their siesta - the lapwing wheeling erratically just above ground level, but the "goldies" in ever-changing smoke-like clouds high above, performing quick-change evolutions reminiscent of starlings going to roost.