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dunnock

[ UK /dˈʌnək/ ]
NOUN
  1. small brownish European songbird

How To Use dunnock In A Sentence

  • In dunnocks, females may use song to compete for males, and in the alpine accentor, females attract males by song.
  • Birds such as dunnocks, robins and wrens prefer a hedgerow which is thick at the bottom.
  • The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
  • The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
  • Favourite host species include dunnock, meadow pipit and reed warbler. Times, Sunday Times
  • And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock! Wuthering Heights
  • A dunnock plays host to a young cuckoo.
  • It moved with the jerky progress of a mouse, a lovely bird full of bright character, like a runt dunnock, severely streaked but with a cocked tail and a beady eye, and just four inches long. A Year on the Wing
  • The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
  • Had the congregation followed suit, there would have been chaos in the parish, " Davies pointed out in his book on the dunnock .
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