A small European songbird of the accentor family, with a dark grey head and a reddish-brown back.
林岩鹨。亦称HEDGE SPARROW
Prunella modularis, family Prunellidae
Also called hedge sparrow
Example sentencesExamples
However, only terrestrial species have been tested, such as barn swallows, tree swallows, dunnocks, alpine accentors, and acorn woodpeckers.
Birds suffering the steepest falls include the blackbird, dunnock, song thrush, and four types of warbler.
In early March, many birds, such as wrens, robins and dunnocks, begin to set up breeding territories.
The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
The coal tit makes a nifty dash in and out while the dunnock forages underneath with some starlings and a pair of blackbirds.
Origin
Middle English: apparently from dun1(from its brown and grey plumage) + -ock.