英:['wɪlɪt]
美:['wɪlɪt]
英:['wɪlɪt]
美:['wɪlɪt]
noun
a large American shorebird (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) of the sandpiper family that resembles the greater yellowlegs but has a thicker bill and gray legs and that displays a black-and-white wing pattern when in flight
imitative
The first known use of willet was in 1791
1 Paine : Including Willet Creek Dam. Now go back to your work!
包括那个白鹤溪. 现在回去干正事吧!
2 Huntington State Beach is home to a number of species of birds, including gulls, willet, elegant terns and reddish egret, which are a rarity on the west coast, according to Ben Smith, a biologist and environmental consultant for the county.
3 Other sightings around the Cape included 5 snowy egrets in West Dennis, a continuing willet at Red River Beach in Harwich, 8 red crossbills in East Harwich, and a clapper rail in Brewster.
4 At low tides, sandpipers and willets are common on the mudflats.
5 The seaside sparrows and willets weren’t quite as robust, but they still needed to experience reproductive failures of more than 75 percent for their long-term survival to be threatened.
6 The willet, or stone curlew as it is sometimes called, is a resident species, breeding from Washington to Mexico.
7 In less than two days he and the terns and willets reached Delaware Bay.
8 Saunders : Including Willet Creek Dam?
包括那个白鹤溪 吗 ?
9 The southern limits of the willet's continental breeding range.
10 In North America it is represented by two species, Totanus semipalmatus and T. melanoleucus, there called willets, telltales or tattlers, which in general habits resemble the greenshank of the Old World.
11 Other sightings around the Cape included 5 purple martins and a cliff swallow in Mashpee, a willet in West Dennis, a glaucous gull in Osterville, indigo buntings in Hyannis and Chatham, blue-gray gnatcatchers in Harwich and Eastham, and an early great-crested flycatcher and house wren in Orleans.
12 Tidal pools attract a variety of seabirds, from herons and egrets to willets and sandpipers.
13 They looked at four birds: the clapper rail, willet, saltmarsh sparrow and seaside sparrow.
14 This scenic bayside village between Newport and Providence is home to intriguing species such as the wading willet and the iridescent purple martin, depending on the season.
15 Depending on the time of the year, willets can display quite different color patterns.
16 Males and females have similar plumage, but female willets are slightly larger.
17 Some sandpiper groups sound like fancy Victorian musical instruments or board games: whimbrels and willets, dowitchers, dunlins, shanks, and tattlers.
18 They are also the largest shanks apart from the Willet, which is altogether more robustly built.
它们同样也是除白羽鹬之外最大的鹬类,它们有更强的体力。
19 Ten least sandpipers, 34 semipalmated sandpipers, a willet, and two lesser and 10 greater yellowlegs were also seen.
20 This weekend’s trip heads to the huge Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where you can expect to see osprey, peregrine falcons, willets and many other species.