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- noun Plural form of
stonechat .
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Examples
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A quick note on stonechats before I disappear outdoors again.
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A quick note on stonechats before I disappear outdoors again.
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I like kindness of stonechats, and when I searched YouTube for corroborative material, the first two videos I watched seem to testify to the kindness of stonechats!
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Around its margins, black-braided buds of the bog cotton are unfurling pert white flags, and the stonechats are chipping from sentinel rocks.
Country diary: Harlech Jim Perrin 2010
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On my right the stonechats bounce and bob on the breeze from outcrop to lancet outcrop of slate, chittering as they fly.
Country diary 2010
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The brief metallic warble and churling note of stonechats, busy among the brambles; a solitary black-headed gull motionless as a ship's figurehead on a promontory of rock; clumps of rock samphire, their umbels stained with pur - pie; yellow dandelions, pinpoints of brightness on the faded autumnal grass.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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What I love most about stonechats, which are almost invariably in pairs, is their unobtrusiveness.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk Mark Cocker 2010
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The wind bellied out among the phragmites at the river edge and I was amazed to see a pair of stonechats, tiny thrush relatives, bending and swaying, flexing their tails and flicking wings to compensate for this movement, yet clinging hard to the reed tops.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk Mark Cocker 2010
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The number of birds is small certainly, although the trees, etc. are now in full leaf: no new birds seem to have come in, except the dove, and Edolius; neither Haematornis nor Brachypus yet observed, one or two fresh species of Alaudina, and stonechats have made their appearance.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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I have been studying the ornithology of these bare chalk mounds, and find the birds are practically the same as our commonest ones at home -- swallows, stonechats -- which have been very busy to-day -- our two water wagtails, and the wretched little sparrow.
The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson
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