| 单词 | red-necked nightjar |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred-necked nightjar red-necked nightjar n. a large nightjar with a rufous collar, Caprimulgus ruficollis, breeding in Iberia and north-west Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Caprimulgiformes (nightjars, etc.) > [noun] > family Caprimulgidae > member of genus Caprimulgus > caprimulgus ruficollis (red-necked nightjar) red-necked nightjar1836 red-necked goatsucker1846 1836 Analyst 4 295 Mr. N. Wood tells us that the ‘Red-necked Nightjar is known in Europe only as a straggler’. 1896 W. B. Tegetmeier Morris's Nat. Hist. Nests & Eggs Brit. Birds (new ed.) I. 128 The Red-necked Night-jar has only once been recorded as occurring in Great Britain; it breeds in the South of Europe. 1991 Bird Watching June 17/2 The outstanding memory was the Red-necked Nightjar we accidently [sic] flushed in broad daylight. 2004 Guardian 19 Apr. i. 20/1 Later on, we saw Egyptian and red-necked nightjars, fulvous babblers and, rarest of all, the northern bald ibis—of which only a few hundred survive in the wild, virtually all in Morocco. < as lemmas |
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