Translation of merel in Dutch–English dictionary
(Translation of merel from the PASSWORD Dutch–English Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)
Examples in english of blackbird
blackbird
The maximum fine is £5 for each egg—say £20 for a blackbird's nest and £40 for a water hen's nest—and a little boy is made a criminal.
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It would be rather dreadful if every small boy who took a thrush's or blackbird's egg could be hauled before the police court and fined.
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One is reminded of the five and twenty blackbirds, who sang before the king.
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Despite its name and colouration, it is in the same genus as the meadowlarks, and is less closely related to the red-winged blackbird group.
The number of birds reported as taken are: blackbird 59, skylark 278, black-headed gull 1, song thrush 2, redwing 8 and fieldfare 10.
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Nothing could be commoner than a blackbird, a thrush or a chaffinch, depending on where you live.
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In both panels the line indicated by squares corresponds to parameters found in humans, whereas the three additional lines correspond to possible values of parameters for blackbirds.
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Blackbirds, thrushes, greenfinches, owls, hawks and falcons are particularly mentioned as birds affected.
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