The car often frightened golden plover from their dust baths in the road, and crestedlapwings flashed across the prairie like sudden storms of autumn leaves.
Lapwings live together in communities, except in the breeding season, when they separate into pairs, to devote themselves to hatching and rearing their young.
But they do not follow out the resemblance with the Lapwings so far as to imitate them in behaving as good fathers of families, and in living as good citizens with one wife chosen once for all.
We remember on one occasion--we have a note recording the fact--seeing a pair of Lapwings drop quietly to the ground just behind a stone wall that separated the moor from the highway.
Large numbers of Lapwings breed on the North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire moorlands, as well as on the rough grounds in their vicinity.
The first indication of our summer birds of passage is given by some venturesome Chiffchaff or Wheatear; the flocks of Lapwings are dispersing to their breeding-places; so too are the Mallards.
Plan of the water meadow showing the territories occupied byLapwings in the year 1916.
Plan of the water meadow showing the territories occupied byLapwings in the year 1915.
For there in the distance, coming down with the wind in scattered flight and as if labouring heavily to keep themselves up, appeared a flock of lapwings pretty well a hundred strong.
That pie, in spite of the rough surroundings, was delicious; and Dick forgot to pity the poor rabbits, and he did not refuse to take his dozen lapwings home for a welcome addition to the next day's dinner.
The lapwings wheeled and cried as ever between the low clouds and the earth, and some ran beautifully among the furrows, too graceful and glistening for the rough field.
Then I heard the lapwings in the meadow crying, crying.
As they sauntered on along the edge of Isla Water the lapwings rose into flight ahead.
Soon after the lapwings have done breeding they congregate, and, leaving the moors and marshes, betake themselves to downs and sheep-walks.
But every day the wild ducks rise from it in fright--clouds of them--and the curlew and lapwings fill the sky with their clamour.
The angry hectoring cries of the Lapwings instantly changed to piercing screams of terror, which in a very short time brought a crowd numbering between two and three hundred birds to the rescue.
Hundreds of Lapwings are perhaps visible running busily about on all sides; near each one a Gull is quietly stationed, watching the movements of its intended dupe with the closest attention.
But the continued slaughter of Lapwings is altogether at variance with--nay, is in direct opposition to--the main provisions of the Convention.
Already in poulterers’ shops, not of the first class, may be seen strings of Lapwings exposed for sale, and this will continue till far on in next spring.
People whose palates are so gross as to be gratified by the flesh of carnivorous birds eat Lapwings greedily enough.
On the hill the lapwings are calling, their plaintive voices softened by the distance, and at times their dark figures show against the pale blue sky, as they rise and fall above the limestone cliffs that skirt the hill.
In eastern Cheshire I have seen parties of lapwings passing over westward just in advance of snow, which when it reached the East Cheshire fields, started the local lapwingsafter their relatives from farther east.
The frequent westward migration of lapwings during exceptionally severe winter weather has led to the supposition that these birds fly for refuge, under these circumstances, to Ireland.
On the other hand golden plovers and lapwings are remarkably local in their winter habits, and so long as the weather remains open will frequent the same fields throughout the winter.
It is said that home-bred lapwings are somewhat sedentary, and that the large winter flocks are composed of Continental immigrants.
And then immediately beneath him arose an outburst of the most awful cries and shrieks, such as could have been wrung only from a human being undergoing the extremity of anguish and bodily torture.
If I don't say she's perfect, you'll go away and tell everybody I'm jealous.
Two Lapwings were given to a clergyman, who put them into his garden; one of them soon died, but the other continued to pick up such food as the place afforded, till winter deprived it of its usual supply.
From their hereditary home the lapwings cannot be entirely driven away.
So long as there is a crop, the lapwings keep away, but as soon as the ploughs turn up the ground in autumn they return.
The flower-growing day lengthens out beyond the sunset, and till the hedges are dim the lapwings do not cease.
The wood-doves which flew back toward the forest winged their way at a lower level than usual, the clamour of their pinions beating the atmosphere as with oars: on the moorland the lapwings rose and fell incessantly with wailing cries.
Once or twice, within these last few cloudless days and nights, she knew that Sorcha, when at length the restless lapwings had ceased their querulous crying in the moonlight, had slipped quietly from the house.
There, too, the lapwingsleave their eggs on the ground among the rushes, and rise, and complainingly call.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lapwings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
