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stonechat

N นก กิน แมลง  nok-kin-ma-lang

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STONECHAT

Stone "chat `, n. Etym: [Stone + chat. ] Etym: [So called from the similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two pebbles.] (Zoöl.) (a ) A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola ); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker,stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith. (b ) The wheatear. (c ) The blue titmouse.

 

Note: The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola, Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India (Saxicola picata ).

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

stonechat

stone chat |ˈstōnˌCHat ˈstoʊnˌtʃæt | noun a small Old World songbird of the thrush subfamily, having bold markings and a call that sounds like two stones being knocked together. [Genus Saxicola, subfamily Turdinae, family Muscicapidae: three or four species, in particular the widespread S. torquata, the male of which has a black head and orange breast. ]

 

Oxford Dictionary

stonechat

stone |chat |ˈstəʊntʃat | noun a small Old World songbird of the thrush family, having bold markings and a call like two stones being knocked together. Genus Saxicola, family Turdidae: three or four species, in particular the widespread S. torquata, the male of which has a black head and orange breast.