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Chickadee having a dark crown
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blackcap
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n. 1 A small Old World warbler, (taxlink Sylvia atricapilla species noshow=1), which is mainly grey with a black crown. 2 whitebark raspberry ((taxlink Rubus leucodermis species noshow=1)). 3 An American tit ((taxlink Parus atricapillus species noshow=1)); ...
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Blackcap may refer to: Eurasian blackcap , Sylvia atricapilla Bush blackcap , Lioptilus nigricapillus , found in southern Africa Black raspberry , sometimes known as blackcap Blackcap, East Sussex , a nature reserve at the top of the South Downs, England ...
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n. raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit [syn: black raspberry , blackcap raspberry , thimbleberry , Rubus occidentalis ] small black-headed European gull [syn: laughing gull , pewit , pewit gull , Larus ridibundus ...
Usage examples of blackcap.
Then she added: ‘Petulia here works for Old Mother Blackcap, over in Sidling Without.
Old Mother Blackcap was a pig-borer, cow-shouter and all-round veterinary witch.
Still, earnest-throated blackcap, throng The woods with that emulous gush Of notes in tumultuous rush.
Deer darted away, vanishing quickly into the fog, but otherwise there was no sign of life except for the chuckling calls of thrushes, the exuberant song of a blackcap, and the occasional rustle of some small animal thrashing away through the dense field layer of wood rush, or into a stand of honeysuckle.
He heard the low pitch of warblers singing to each other, while a blackcap swooped down into a glade off to his right, disappearing briefly into a tangle of hawthorn and rooting around until it found the insect noticed from the air.
Large flocks of pelicans and beauti us flew overhead, and many kinds of raptors, including d white-tailed eagles, honey buzzards, and hawklike hob r greater numbers of small birds hopping, flying, singing, heir brilliant colors: nightingales and warblers, blackcaps, red-breasted flycatchers, golden orioles, and many other ams were common in the delta, but the elusive, well marsh birds were heard more often than seen.
At the edge of the wood the blackbirds were louder still, and they had been joined by blackcaps, thrushes, larks, monotonous pigeons, and a number of birds that should never have sung at all.