dunnock

[prettygoodword]

dunnock (DUHN-uhk) - n., a small Eurasian passerine bird (Prunella modularis), also called hedge sparrow or hedge warbler.



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About the size of a sparrow, only even more drab-colored and with a thrust-like beak. In Middle English it was spelled donek/dunok/dunoke, from dun, brownish grey +‎ -ock, diminutive suffix -- so little grey-brown one. Sounds about right.

---L.

Comments

[oracne]

I love that picture. Such a tidy bird.

[prettygoodword]

Cheep!