lapwing - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • breed: Particularly high numbers of breeding lapwing have been recorded for the area east of the motorway.
  • include: Holwell and Haytor Down - managed under agri-environment scheme for wading birds including lapwing and curlew.
  • see: We also keep seeing a lapwing by the roadside.
  • benefit: Wet flushes, shallow ditches and small scrapes also benefit lapwing by providing additional sources of invertebrate food.
  • have: We have Lapwings on the tops of the hills where the Skylark still trills high above you.
  • record: In the damp grasslands, breeding waders have also been recorded lapwing, curlew and snipe.

Adjective modifier

  • sociable: A Blyth's Pipit was perhaps a somewhat duller side attraction, but a flock of Sociable Lapwings was most certainly not.
  • 1000+: On the pit were the usual 1000+ Lapwing, several Green Sandpiper and a Kingfisher.
  • usual: On the pit were the usual 1000+ Lapwing, several Green Sandpiper and a Kingfisher.
  • few: A few Lapwings wheeled overhead but the large flocks were over the grazing fields to the east.

Modifies a noun

  • population: Data from the RSPB indicates that the North West lapwing population has mirrored the national decline.
  • number: Lapwing numbers have also built from four at the beginning of the month to over fifty by the end.
  • nest: Lapwings nest on bare ground or where vegetation is short.
  • swoop: Lapwings swoop and play in the field below the Lodges, seeing off the local buzzard when the nest is threatened.
  • consultant: Lapwings Consultants is privileged to have access to this information.

Noun used with modifier

  • waders: Despite disturbance from cutting, the lowland bogs are important for breeding waders lapwing, snipe and curlew have been recorded.
  • breeding: Only a few breeding lapwing and snipe are recorded.

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