| 单词 | alarm bird |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalarm bird alarm bird n. any of various birds whose alarm calls are thought to alert game or to act as an alarm clock.Examples of the former are the Australian lapwing Vanellus miles, and the African go-away bird Corythaixoides concolor; of the latter, the laughing kookaburra, Dacelo novaeguineae. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > member of genus Vanellus kiewiet1785 alarm bird1848 the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Cuculiformes (cuckoos, etc.) > [noun] > family Musophagidae (turaco) > genus Corythaixodes (go-away bird) go-away bird1881 alarm bird1940 a1792 S. Hearne Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort (1795) vi. 172 I did not see any birds peculiar to those parts, except what the Copper Indians call the ‘Alarm Bird’, or ‘Bird of Warning’. 1848 J. Gould Birds Austral. VI. pl. 9 Lobivanellus lobatus..has obtained the name of the Alarm Bird from its rising in the air, flying round and screaming at the approach of an intruder. 1940 V. Pohl Bushveld Adventures vii. 155 The popular belief that the ‘Go-away’ or ‘Alarm birds’ scare off game. 2004 S. Legge Kookaburra i.3 Settlers quickly noted the same association between daybreak and the Laughing Kookaburra's cackling chorus as indigenous Australians, and came up with common names that were a reference to this predictable timing: 'Alarm Bird', 'Breakfast Bird', 'Settler's Clock' and 'Bushman's Clock'. < as lemmas |
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