quawk

Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (protonym, Ardea Nycticorax), also known as the American/common night heron, the quawk or quark (an onomatopoeic term) or simply as the night heron, photographed at Texas City Dike, Texas (USA).

Mystery bird: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax 2011

Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (protonym, Ardea Nycticorax), also known as the American/common night heron, the quawk or quark (an onomatopoeic term) or simply as the night heron, photographed at Texas City Dike, Texas (USA).

Mystery bird: black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax 2011

"The gate is open, the brown colt's gone, the brindle calf's going and we are thinking about it; quawk! quawk!" said the three geese, Mrs. Waddle, Mrs. Gabble, and Mrs. Dabble.

Mother Stories Maud Lindsay

Even their distant quawk made her quake, though she feared her end was near.

Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

Quackalina knew the haughty quawk of the proud white ducks of Pekin.

Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

Directly after there came from a distance the scuttering noise made by a duck dabbling its bill in the ooze, and this was followed by a low _quawk_ uttered by some nocturnal bird, perhaps by one of the butterbumps whose hoarse booming cry had come so strangely in the earlier part of the night.

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870

Quoak! 'the rooks as they went by were so contented enjoying the sunshine, they took out the harsh' c 'or' k 'and substituted the softer' q '--' quawk! quowk! '

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

[Illustration: "The gate is open, the brown colt's gone, the brindle calf's going, and we are thinking about it, quawk! quawk!"] "Oh!" thought he, as he tore his glossy coat on the sharp barbs of the wire fence and cut his feet as he leaped awkwardly over, "Oh! how I wish

Mother Stories Maud Lindsay

Princess, "a sort of sublimated" shivaree "in which oboes quawk, muted trumpets bray, pizzicato strings flutter, and mandolins (loved of

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914