Crossword clues for avocet
avocet
- Destroy cave to get bird
- Long-necked wading bird
- Curve-billed wader
- Shorebird with a curved beak
- Leggy shorebird
- Bird with a curved bill
- Bird with a bent bill
- Web-footed shorebird
- Wading bird with long bill
- Wading bird with curved bill
- Stilt cousin with an upcurved bill
- Shorebird with an upward-curving bill
- Shorebird — octave (anag)
- Leggy shore bird
- Curve-billed shorebird
- Black-and-white shorebird
- Bird like the stilt
- Another shorebird with a curved beak
- Long-legged shorebird with upward-curving bill
- Cousin of the snipe
- Cousin of a stilt
- Relative of a stilt
- Stilt's cousin
- Wading bird with an upcurved bill
- Pied wader
- Long-billed wader
- Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill
- Long-legged bird
- Cousin ot the snipe
- Shore bird
- Long-legged wader
- Overact badly, right away getting the bird
- One flies to cave in orderly fashion
- Wading bird, rejecting company, protected by an animal doctor
- Shore bird flying to cave
- Long-legged wading bird with upward-curving bill
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Avocet \Av"o*cet\, Avoset \Av"o*set\ ([a^]v"[-o]*s[e^]t), n. [F. avocette: cf. It. avosetta, Sp. avoceta.] (Zo["o]l.) A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is Recurvirostra Americana. [Written also avocette.]
Wiktionary
n. Any of four species of wading birds in the genus ''Recurvirostra'', of the family Recurvirostridae, with long, slender recurved bills, long legs, and webbed feet.
WordNet
n. long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill
Wikipedia
The four species of avocets are a genus, Recurvirostra, of waders in the same avian family as the stilts. The genus name is from Latin recurvus, "curved backwards" and rostrum, "bill".
Avocets have long legs and they sweep their long, thin, upcurved bills from side to side when feeding in the brackish or saline wetlands they prefer. The plumage is pied, sometimes also with some red.
Members of this genus have webbed feet and readily swim. Their diet consists of aquatic insects and other small creatures. They nest on the ground in loose colonies. In estuarine settings they may feed on exposed bay muds or mudflats.
The pied avocet is the emblem of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
The four species, all in the genus Recurvirostra, are:
- American avocet, Recurvirostra americana
- Andean avocet, Recurvirostra andina
- Pied avocet, Recurvirostra avosetta (featured on the logo of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds)
- Red-necked avocet, Recurvirostra novaehollandiae
In a large colony they are aggressively defensive and chase off any other species of birds that try to nest among or near them. That causes the annoyed remark "Avocet: Exocet from some British birdwatchers.
They had been extinct in Britain for a long time because of land reclamation of their habitat and persecution by skin and egg collectors, but during or soon after World War II started breeding on reclaimed land near the Wash which was returned to salt marsh to make difficulties for any landing German invaders.
Avocet is the twelfth album by Scottish folk musician Bert Jansch, released in 1979 in UK. The album was first released by Ex Libris in Denmark in late 1978 with alternate album cover and one alternate track title, although no difference in recorded content. The title track "Avocet" was inspired by the traditional song " The Cuckoo". All tracks on the album are named after a sea bird or wading bird.
On 5 February 2016, Earth Recordings reissued the album (remastered by Brian Pyle, with new sleeve art) in digital, CD, and vinyl formats; the latter available in an 'art edition' which included six lithograph prints of illustrations of each of the birds on the album, made by Hannah Alice.
Avocet is the common name of a genus of wading birds, Recurvirostra.
Avocet may also refer to:
- Avocet snipe-eel, a fish
- Avro Avocet, a 1920s British naval fighter aircraft prototype
- Avocet Mining, a West African company
- Avocet (album), by Bert Jansch
- USS Avocet (AVP-4), a 1918–1946 US Navy minesweeper
- USS Avocet (AMCU-16), a 1953–1960 US Navy minesweeper
- Republican Aviation Avocet, a fictional aircraft in the multiplayer game NationStates
- Avocet, a 1986 prototype locomotive of the British Rail Class 89
Usage examples of "avocet".
At the eastern end of the island, the mass of birds, Louisiana herons, pelicans, avocets, sandpipers, egrets, flamingoes and the few roseate spoonbills, went on with building, their nests or fished in the shallow waters of the lake.
Avocet, too, would be wrapped in darkness, though he dared not climb the batture at this point to see.
Phlosine nor Dominique had the slightest interest in the murder of Hesione LeGros and were instead consumed with questions and gossip concerning the baroque details of the Avocet scandal.
The rebel leader Jacinthe strode up the levee, pistol in hand, and grabbed Vivienne Avocet by the arm.
But on the open water birds waded, ancestors of flamingos and avocets, and huge water lilies rested languidly on the surface.