Definitions
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- noun (Zoöl.) A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
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- noun A
bird from southernAfrica ,Scopus umbretta , of theScopidae family and related to theherons .
Etymologies
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Afrikaans for "hammer head".
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Examples
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
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Wadi Turabah in Saudi Arabia is the last place in the Arabian Peninsula where the hammerkop (Scopus umbretta) can be found nesting, and the isolated and distinctive endemic race Pica pica ssp. asirensis is pressent on Shalla ad-Dhana.
reesetee commented on the word hammerkop
Thanks--I almost forgot about this one!
February 23, 2007