We have not seen the leather-winged bat for some time, nor are there any of the small goatsucker in this part of the Missouri.
We have not seen that species of goatsucker called the whippoorwill, which is commonly confounded in the United States with the large goatsucker which we observe here.
The Goatsucker is pretty common throughout the whole of England, but more so in the south than the north; it is a migratory bird, arriving towards the middle or end of May and departing in September.
When night reigns over these immeasurable wilds, whilst lying in your hammock, you will hear this goatsucker lamenting like one in deep distress.
Four other species of the goatsucker articulate some words so distinctly, that they have received their names from the sentences they utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts.
If the largest goatsuckerchance to cry near the white man's door, sorrow and grief will soon be inside; and they expect to see the master waste away with a slow consuming sickness.
This remarkable Goatsucker was often observed by Durnford in the province of Buenos Ayres in spring and autumn.
In Entrerios, Mr. Barrows tells us, thisGoatsucker is an abundant summer resident, arriving early in September, and departing again in April.
The specific name of this Goatsucker is from the Guarani word Nacunda, which Azara tells us is the Indian nickname for any person with a very large mouth.
The name of Goatsucker originated in an absurd idea that this bird sucked the goat’s milk, from its habit of lying on the ground near cows or she goats, and catching the flies that torment them by fixing on their udders.
The name goatsucker the bird has from a superstitious notion that it sucks goats and cows--a myth founded probably upon the fact of its wide gape.
About the mouth the goatsucker is very swallow-like.
The goatsucker makes no nest, but lays its eggs among burning bits of limestone on the sides of the fells; and that of the golden plover is equally non-existent.
The owl sailed slowly past; the goatsucker hawked for moths about the oaks; the trout rose to the incautious flies; the corncrake babbled loudly in the long, lush meadow grass.
We also killed a large bat or goatsucker of which there are many in this neighbourhood, resembling in every respect those of the same species in the United States.
The most of these they capture on the wing, somewhat after the fashion of the Goatsuckerand Swallow.
Tonight for the first time this season I heard the small whippoorwill or goatsucker of the Missouri cry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goatsucker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
