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  • noun UK, birdwatching shortened term for the black-throated diver.

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Examples

  • The owner of Rosti, a black-throat monitor lizard, said he lost the reptile on Saturday and has not seen it since, police said.

    Archive 2009-10-18 Bill Crider 2009

  • From a tree nearby the olive thrush sang like clockwork; over beyond carolled eagerly a black-throat, a myrtle warbler, a dozen song sparrows, and a hundred vireos and creepers.

    The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909

  • From a tree near by the olive thrush sang like clockwork; over beyond carolled eagerly a black-throat, a myrtle warbler, a dozen song sparrows, and a hundred vireos and creepers.

    The Blazed Trail 1902

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