sand martin

Noun

 * 1) A migratory passerine bird of the swallow family,.
 * 2) * 1668,, An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, London: Sa. Gellibrand and John Martyn, Part2, Chapter5, p.151,
 * SAND-MARTIN, Shore-bird.
 * 1) * 1774,, Letter20 in The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, London: B. White & Son, 1789, p.175,
 * The only instance I ever remember where this species haunts any building is at the town of Bishop’s Waltham, in this county, where many sand-martins nestle and breed in the scaffold-holes of the back-wall of William of Wykeham’s stables:

Translations

 * Catalan: oreneta de ribera, culblanc de ribera
 * Cherokee: ᏦᏯᎦ
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: kaldapääsuke
 * Finnish:
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 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: liivapääskö, savipääskö
 * Irish: gabhlán gainimh
 * Italian:
 * Old English: stæ︀︀þswealwe
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, берегова́я ла́сточка
 * Scottish Gaelic: gobhlan-gainmhich
 * Spanish: avión zapador, golondrina zapadora
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 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: gwennol y glennydd