Turkish - English
Definition of scolopax rusticola in Turkish English dictionary
- woodcock
- Any of several wading birds in the genus Scolopax, of the family Scolopacidae, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage
- {n} a fine bird of passage
- game bird of the sandpiper family that resembles a snipe
- A woodcock is a small brown bird with a long beak. Woodcock are sometimes shot for sport or food. Any of five species (family Scolopacidae) of plump, sharp-billed migratory birds of damp, dense woodlands in North America, Europe, and Asia. With eyes set far back on the head, a woodcock has a 360° field of vision. The buffy-brown, mottled plumage provides camouflage. A solitary bird, most active at dusk, it drums its feet to coax earthworms to the surface and then extracts them with its long, forceps-like bill; it may eat twice its weight in worms each day. The female American woodcock (Scolopax,or Philohela, minor) is about 11 in. (28 cm) long; the male is slightly smaller. The male's striking courtship display includes a long, repeated spiraling and dropping sequence. Woodcocks have been popular game birds
- (A) A fool is so called from the supposition that woodcocks are without brains Polonius tells his daughter that protestations of love are “springes to catch woodcocks ” (Shakespeare: Hamlet, i 3 )
- {i} snipe, kind of bird
- Any one of several species of long-billed limicoline birds belonging to the genera Scolopax and Philohela
- A long billed, neckless "shorebird" (Scolopax minor) of the moist forest Fond of earthworms and noted for its nocturnal display flights in spring Otherwise secretive and rarely seen Padjâshkaaaji or padashkaanji in the Ojibwe
- A simpleton
- Fig
- Any of various wading birds in the genus Scolopax, characterised by a long slender bill and cryptic brown and blackish plumage
- They are mostly nocturnal in their habits, and are highly esteemed as game birds
German - English
Definition of scolopax rusticola in German English dictionary
- Waldschnepfe (Scolopax rusticola)
- woodcock
- Waldschnepfe (Scolopax rusticola)
- Eurasian woodcock