Dacelo Gigas (Noun)
Meaning
Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- The loud, cackling cry of the Dacelo gigas echoes through the Australian rainforest.
- While out for a bushwalk, the tourists caught sight of a brightly coloured Dacelo gigas perched on a low branch.
- Identified by its oversized beak, the Dacelo gigas was the talk of the ornithology community in Sydney that month.
- Just outside our cottage was a sprawling old eucalypt, popular amongst visitors hoping for a glimpse of a local Dacelo gigas in the afternoons.
- Elliott quietly unfolded the local species field guide as she motioned at her bird-watching husband; across from their view deck there fluttered one dazzling male Dacelo gigas.scalablytyped