Meaning of lapwing in English
(Definition of lapwing from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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The provision relates to imports of quail, lapwing and game birds.
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It is also known as the green-crested lapwing.
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I do not offer any observations about the lapwing except that there seems to be a hiatus of fourteen days which is not accounted for.
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It is a great thing to have got a proposal to prohibit entirely the sale of lapwings' eggs in this country.
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I know of one case where a dealer in birds' eggs sold between 20,000 and 25,000 lapwings eggs in one year.
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Who will be responsible for collecting the information about what is happening to the lapwing?
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That obviously takes the lapwing out of the protection.
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The lapwing is a bird by which some county councils set such store that they protect it altogether—eggs, birds, and everything—in their own counties.
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However, left as it is, it does provide a valuable habitat that is ideal for breeding birds such as redshanks and lapwing.
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An environmental appraisal is being carried out to minimise the effect of development on the lapwing population.
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Despite that, lapwings do not increase, they have seriously declined.
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The schemes include valuable incentives to encourage farmland birds such as the lapwing.
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I remember that in 1954 and 1967 we had endless discussions about the taking of lapwings' eggs.
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The hiatus which he complained of about the lapwing's eggs occurs for this reason.
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What has struck me in the last few years is the enormous number of lapwings hanging up in poulterers' shops.
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