How To Use Dunnock In A Sentence
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In dunnocks, females may use song to compete for males, and in the alpine accentor, females attract males by song.
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Birds such as dunnocks, robins and wrens prefer a hedgerow which is thick at the bottom.
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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Favourite host species include dunnock, meadow pipit and reed warbler.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock!
Wuthering Heights
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A dunnock plays host to a young cuckoo.
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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
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
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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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This is the song of the dunnock, or hedge sparrow.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coldest December on record had driven them to warmer climes, and during the day I managed to miss goldfinch, greenfinch, dunnock and song thrush as well.
Birdwatch: Black redstart
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In early March, many birds, such as wrens, robins and dunnocks, begin to set up breeding territories.
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And this 1920s photograph of colliers at the Gambleside pit which was located on the far side of Clowbridge Reservoir near Dunnockshaw, shows mere boys among the workforce.
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Birds such as starlings, blackbirds, thrushes and dunnocks will use a lawn to hunt for worms and insects, so maintain good drainage and limit compaction to help them probe in its surface.
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Can your children identify the rambling ditty of a dunnock?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Blackbirds, starlings, green finches, great tits, robins, collared doves and dunnocks are all included in Cumbria's top ten.
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However, only terrestrial species have been tested, such as barn swallows, tree swallows, dunnocks, alpine accentors, and acorn woodpeckers.
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However, only terrestrial species have been tested, such as barn swallows, tree swallows, dunnocks, alpine accentors, and acorn woodpeckers.
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And especially noisy around my place, the dunnock.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another bird that has just started singing is the hedge sparrow or dunnock.
Times, Sunday Times
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They ate in silence, listening to the song of a dunnock perched in a treetop and the sweeter warbling of the woodlark, and then Heruvael pulled out the slates and chalk he had packed.
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Not so its near orthographic neighbour the dunnock, which may not be too well, numbers-wise, but is still with us.
Corrections and clarifications
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It is known to have mild effects on a wide range of British birds such as the dunnock, house sparrow, starling and the wood pigeon.
UK garden birds hit by avian pox virus
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Birds suffering the steepest falls include the blackbird, dunnock, song thrush, and four types of warbler.
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This probably explains why male dunnocks copulate with such extraordinary frequency - about ten times a day.
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The personal life of the dunnock is a complex affair, and the female of the species is famously polyandrous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first to scope it out was a dunnock.
Times, Sunday Times
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This time it was a dunnock, a cheery little brown bird of the hedges.
Times, Sunday Times
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The coldest December on record had driven them to warmer climes, and during the day I managed to miss goldfinch, greenfinch, dunnock and song thrush as well.
Birdwatch: Black redstart
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However, the dunnock has a more interesting life than this would suggest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not so its near orthographic neighbour the dunnock, which may not be too well, numbers-wise, but is still with us.
Corrections and clarifications
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The coal tit makes a nifty dash in and out while the dunnock forages underneath with some starlings and a pair of blackbirds.
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Well-documented cooperative species with joint-paternity clutches include the acorn woodpecker, pukeko, Tasmanian hen, dunnock, Galapagos hawk, trumpeter, and stepmother breeding units of the scrubwren.
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This probably explains why male dunnocks copulate with such extraordinary frequency - about ten times a day.
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The local robins have been singing to guard their territories all winter, of course, but over the last couple of days I've heard them joined by blackbirds, great tits, chaffinches, skylarks and a small brown stripey bird that I think was a dunnock, all proclaiming, "This is my bit, come and set up home with me!
Signs of spring
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In dunnocks, females may use song to compete for males, and in the alpine accentor, females attract males by song.
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A dunnock, or hedge sparrow, comes and starts creeping about under dead plants.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the hour of the dunnock (pictured).
Times, Sunday Times
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It does not have any hostility as such towards the dunnock.
Times, Sunday Times
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In early March, many birds, such as wrens, robins and dunnocks, begin to set up breeding territories.
