The dotterel is one of the most interesting of British birds.
In Wiltshire the coming of the dotterel betokens frost and snow, and there is a proverb that the booming of the bittern will be followed by rain or worse.
The dottereland Norfolk plover are summer visitants.
Like the rare dotterel it breeds on the highest mountains, and in the nesting season has the golden markings of its back set off by the rich velvety black of its breast.
The Mongolian Dotterel is a regular visitor to western Micronesia.
The Large Sand Dotterel is a regular visitor to the Palau Islands.
Mackenzie that the dotterel formerly bred on Beinn Bheag, near Kenlochewe.
The Dotterel has been the means of founding the reputation of the Pate de Chartres: the bird's own personal experience must long ago have convinced it how heavy the burden of renown sometimes proves.
The Dotterel is included in Professor Ansted's list, and by him marked as having occurred in Guernsey and Sark.
The Ring Dotterelis very common in all the Islands in places suited to it.
Professor Ansted includes the Ring Dotterel in his list, but marks it as only occurring in Guernsey.
The Ring Dotterel must therefore have selected some breeding-place separate from the Kentish Plover, probably not very far off; but I do not believe it breeds at all commonly in the Islands.
In spring, "trips" of rare dotterel often led us about the higher hills for days, and sometimes we had to stay all night on the mountain.
The Sea Dotterel which Wilkin supposes to be the Ring Plover, is undoubtedly the Turnstone.
Others will be the better for't; and if None but a Dotterelsuffer for't, what loss Of his can countervail the least good fortune That may from thence blow to another man?
Dotterel might therefore very properly employ words in ordinary use, without supposing him acquainted with "the pocula coronata of the Romans.
I'll in, and see how Dotterel Courts his brave mistress: I left him composing A sonnet to her.
Yes, if she keep touch In what she promis'd me, I'll undertake Her Dotterel shall be sure, and given to her In matrimony.
We have seen eggs of the Dotterel that had been taken on the Cumberland mountains in June.
The Dotterel is one of the very few species in which the hen bird is larger and more brightly coloured than the cock, and the latter consequently incubates the eggs and takes the greater share in the task of rearing the young.
The summer home of the Dotterel is shared, in some instances at least, with that still more mountain bird, the Ptarmigan.
In short, whatever the fowler does, the Dotterel does the same.
Last night we had dotterel and sandpipers for dinner, this morning greenshanks, which are very good birds indeed.
Without knowing what he had fired at, Edward saw a Ring Dotterelbefore him, which, he thought, must be the bird.
In an account of “The Birds of Strathbeg,” which Edward afterwards published in the Naturalist, he mentioned the curious manner in which the Ring Dotterel contrives to divert attention from her nest.
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