coverts

• You shoot a bit yourself over those coverts, they tell me. —  Cargo of Eagles - Margery Allingham - Campion 21: 1968
• Coverts is coverts, my son, and Bow Street is Bow Street. —  Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
• They ran from the coverts, and assembled near the front of the only cottage visible to my eye. —  Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer
• The birds that had been singing now seemed to fly off to dense coverts, and uttered only frightened cries. —  Three Boys in the Wild North Land
• The secondaries and greater wing-coverts are white, contrasting vividly, as the bird flies, with the black primaries. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

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