corncrake
Britishnoun
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The call of the corncrake is a “lovely noise to hear out in the washes,” says Emilie Fox-Teece of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust reserve at Welney, Norfolk.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024
But in Western Europe, over thousands of years, the corncrake also adapted to the similar conditions that were created by traditional, low-intensity farming in grassland meadows and field margins.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
Efforts to rescue the corncrake in Ireland began in the 1990s and included the banning of early mowing of meadows where corncrakes might breed.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
Rarities like the corncrake, with its distinctive rasping call, also arrive here to breed in the summer.
From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2017
And once they heard a corncrake calling as it crept among the long grass of a path verge.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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