How To Use blackcock In A Sentence
- Forest areas are characterized with blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix), and other forest birds (Dendrocopos major, Oriolus oriolus, Columba palumbus, Streptopelia turtur, Parus cyanus, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Anthus trivialis) and others. Kazakh upland
- He was a good shot and a blackcock, killed when out shooting with the Duke of Northumberland, was for many years exhibited in Keilder Castle.
- The greyhen goes to a distance to make her nest, in order to conceal her eggs from the blackcock.
- I kept on imagining that red dogs were running round me, and you made them point at me, as if I were a blackcock. Fathers and Sons
- Across his shoulder hung a game-bag with a blackcock lying in it. The Witch, and other stories
- Another interesting feature about pheasants is the extraordinary difference in plumage between the sexes, a gap equalled only between the blackcock and greyhen and quite unknown in the partridge, quail and grouse. Birds in the Calendar
- The sides of the Berg were full of quail and partridge and bush pheasant, and on the grassy plateau there was abundance of a bird not unlike our own blackcock, which the Dutch called korhaan. Prester John
- Forest areas are characterized with blackcock (Lyrurus tetrix), and other forest birds (Dendrocopos major, Oriolus oriolus, Columba palumbus, Streptopelia turtur, Parus cyanus, Phoenicurus phoenicurus, Anthus trivialis) and others. Kazakh upland
- The black grouse (or blackcock) has actually become extinct on Dartmoor.
- I say, you have shot a blackcock, Yegor Vlassitch! The Witch, and other stories
