英：[ˈkɪtɪweɪk]
美：[ˈkɪtiˌwek]
kittiwake如何读
kittiwake是什么意思
- n.三指鸥
kittiwake自然拼读
kit·ti·wake
kI ti weIk
kittiwake英英释义
- n.small pearl-grey gull of northern regions; nests on cliffs and has a rudimentary hind toe
kittiwake词源英文解释
imitative
The first known use of kittiwake was in 1661
kittiwake儿童词典英英释义
Kleenextrademark
—used for a cleansing tissue
kiwifruitnoun
the edible fruit of a Chinese vine having a fuzzy brown skin and slightly tart green flesh
kiwinoun
a flightless New Zealand bird with weak and undeveloped wings, stout legs, a long bill, and grayish brown hairlike feathers
kiwifruit
kivanoun
a Pueblo Indian ceremonial structure that is usually round and partly underground
kitty1 of 2noun
cat sense 1aespecially: kitten
kitty2 of 2noun
a sum of money or collection of goods often made up of small contributions
kittiwakenoun
either of two gulls that nest on cliffs and winter on the open ocean
kittiwake 例句
1 NTS said positive tests on two kittiwakes at St Abb's Head were not unexpected due to the number of dead birds, but stressed many thousands of others were still doing well.
2 Landlords put up the deterrents in an attempt to stop the birds damaging the brickwork, but Buskin says he’s never seen kittiwakes do any harm.
3 This group of kittiwakes is resilient – they’re only in this spot because they were displaced from the warehouse next door when it was converted into apartments 30 years ago.
4 “It’s a world first that they live inland, and North Shields is where the story began. These kittiwakes are part of the local heritage,” says Buskin.
5 All kittiwakes in Tyneside have a tough time when they fly back after the winter.
6 North Yorkshire Police said a total of eight kittiwakes had been shot between 21 and 24 July.
7 At Mull Head on the Orkney mainland, cliffs were empty this year as kittiwakes failed to return to the colony to breed.
8 “The only thing local residents could complain about then is the noise, but they might be interested in observing the kittiwake. They’d have a great view,” he says.
9 At Cape Ann a red-necked grebe was seen in Gloucester, a harlequin duck at the Dry Salvages off Rockport, and eight red-necked phalaropes and an out of season black-legged kittiwake were seen at Andrews Point in Rockport.
10 These are the bay’s beloved kittiwakes, small gulls that nest in the cliff’s crags in warm months.
11 In 2018, National Geographic reported on mass die-offs of several species in Iceland including Atlantic puffins, black-legged kittiwake and black murres.
12 Fulmars, kittiwakes, razorbills, terns and guillemots, but the stars of the show are the puffins.
13 "Other once common species like the kittiwakes, Scottish wildcat and arable wildflowers are vanishing before our eyes".
14 Seabird counts on some sites around Orkney indicate an 87% reduction in the number of kittiwakes compared with counts conducted on the same sites as part of the last seabird census in 2000.
15 There were panthers and leopards, wolves, tigers and antelopes; monkeys and hedgehogs, wombats, mountain goats and giraffes; and an enormous group composed entirely of kittiwakes and vultures.
16 The mapping reveals that the Scottish coastline, particularly the east coast, is important for kittiwakes, guillemots and razorbills.
17 Birds blown in at Race Point in Provincetown included 43 red-necked phalaropes, a razorbill, 5 parasitic jaegers, 24 black-legged kittiwakes, a black tern, 3 Arctic terns, an Iceland gull, 60 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 4 sooty shearwaters, and 8 Manx shearwaters.
18 They are also examining large die-offs — or “wrecks,” as avian biologists call them — in dozens of seabird species including horned puffins, black-legged kittiwakes and shearwaters.
19 Species like kittiwakes, guillemots and razorbills are showing some of the steepest declines in numbers of birds present.
20 “Who sang, sea takes, / brawn brine, bone grit. / Keener the kittiwake.”
kittiwake 同义词
1 海鸥
2 三趾鸥