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Sentence Examples
Smallest of the grebes, the little grebe, or dabchick, is considerably rounder and more dumpy than its congeners.
Swans were seen nesting and a dabchick had a flotilla of chicks behind her.
He picked it out amongst its smaller and much commoner relative, the little grebe – also known as the dabchick.
Like the dabchick, the pied-billed grebe is small, greyish-brown in colour, and with a fluffy rear end – in this case showing a quick flash of white as it dives beneath the water to find food.
Examples from Classical Literature
The dabchick, as this bird is called, is the most evenly distributed bird of this family.
Indeed it is in East Anglia that I have most especially watched the dabchick.
The most expert waterman that sculls his skiff on the Thames or Isis, is but an humble and unskillful imitator of the dabchick.
The little grebe or dabchick is another species that lays in July or August.
The larger birds are the wood-pigeon, moorhen, dabchick, and to these the carrion crow may now be added as a breeding species.
The dabchick lays five or six long-shaped eggs, pointed at either end, of a chalky white colour.
I have never myself seen a dabchick fly through the air or walk on land, neither have I ever heard its note.
She is called the little grebe, or sometimes, by her intimate friends, the Dabchick.
