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Definition of Goatsuckers
1. goatsucker [n] - See also: goatsucker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goatsuckers
Literary usage of Goatsuckers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"goatsuckers. SWIFTS. AND HUMMINGBIRDS. Order XVI. ... goatsuckers are long winged
birds, with small bills, but with an extraordinarily large mouth, ..."
2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"goatsuckers are found in most parts of the world, but are more numerously
represented in the tropics. Some eighty-five species are known, of which about one ..."
3. The Bird Book: Illustrating in Natural Colors More Than Seven Hundred North by Chester Albert Reed (1914)
"goatsuckers, SWIFTS, AND HUMMINGBIRDS. Order XVI. ... goatsuckers are long winged
birds, with small bills, but with an extraordinarily large mouth, ..."
4. Report on the Birds of Pennsylvania: With Special Reference to the Food by Pennsylvania Ornithologist, Benjamin Harry Warren (1890)
"goatsuckers. THE WHIP-POOR-WILL AND NIGHTHAWK. The name of "Goatsucker" given to
members of this family originated from a silly notion that the European ..."
5. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1879)
"Ant Thrushes.—Parrot of the Sun. —Aras, or Macaws.—Bitterns.—Egret,-Herons,
etc.—goatsuckers.— Whip-poor-Will.—Superstitions.—Tinamous. ..."
6. Argentine Ornithology: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Birds of the Argentine by Philip Lutley Sclater, William Henry Hudson (1889)
"Nearly fifty different species of the singular nocturnal birds commonly known
as " goatsuckers " are found in the Neotropical Region. ..."
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