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Sandgrouse definition

săndgrous
Any of various ground-feeding birds of the family Pteroclididae, of arid and semiarid regions of Eurasia and Africa.
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Any of a family (Pteroclididae) of birds in the same order (Columbiformes) as pigeons, found in sandy regions of S Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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Any of several species of birds in the family Pteroclididae.
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Noun

Singular:
sandgrouse
Plural:
sandgrouses

Sandgrouse Sentence Examples

  • Of game-birds the most plentiful are sandgrouse, quail (a bird of passage) and snipe.

  • Our main interest was to see sandgrouse but we enjoyed the general birding as we waited for dusk to fall.

  • We had hoped to find sandgrouse, but our luck was not in.

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