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1. a heron, usually smaller with long feather plumes during breeding season
[See Heron, page 11]
Old French (aigrette, from Provençal aigreta--silver heron, or brush). German (heigaro, heron). Old Occitan (aigreta, aigron, or heron”). Latin (hairo). Frankish (haigro, or heron).
Egret (Casmerodius, Egretta or Ardea): wading birds with long necks and legs. The term Egret is applied based on appearance, inconsistently with other herons. Known for long feather plumes during breeding--a feature that was almost the death of them, with over-hunting for the feather to be used in fashion designs.
Species: Intermediate egret (Mesophoyx intermedia), Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis), Little egret (Egretta garzetta), (Eastern reef egret or Pacific reef heron (Egretta sacra), Western reef egret or Western reef heron (Egretta gularis), Snowy egret (Egretta thula), Reddish egret (Egretta rufescens), Slaty egret (Egretta vinaceigula), Black egret (Egretta ardesiaca), Chinese egret (Egretta eulophotes).
Intermediate egret
Cattle egret
Little egret
Eastern reef egret or Pacific reef heron, white and gray variations
Western reef egret or Western reef heron, white and gray variations
Snowy egret
Reddish egret
Slaty egret
Black egret
Chinese egret
spyplane....
There is the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET), as installed with the NASA Compton Gamma Ray Observatory satellite. To better detect lower energy gamma rays from space. Interesting, but not very threatening. Didn't involve diamonds, either.
Shrike / SHrīk / noun
1. a songbird with a strong sharply hooked bill, plus a surprising carnivorous proclivity to impale its prey
Old English (Scrīc, thrush, also for its shrieking call). Middle Low German (Schrīk).
Shrike (Laniidae): The Butcher Bird, and a sort of wolf in sheep’s clothing. A passerine (perching bird), with the appearance of an innocuous songbird. On closer inspection, its downward-curved beak reveals predatory behavior. The Shrike's nickname is well-earned: it is known for preying on small animals, lizards, insects--and impaling them on thorns or barbed wire to either assist in carving off parts, or to store for eating later, or both. Predatory, displaying themselves on a perch to simultaneously protect a territory from competition and sight dinner.
Many times monogamous. Sometimes cooperative breeders--wherein one generation assists raising the next. Males attract mates with a cache of food or colorful items, courtship dances imitate the impaling of prey.
Genus Lanius: Tiger shrike (Lanius tigrinus), Souza's shrike (Lanius souzae), Bull-headed shrike (Lanius bucephalus), Brown shrike (Lanius cristatus), Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio), Isabelline shrike (Lanius isabellinus), Red-tailed shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides), Burmese shrike (Lanius collurioides), Emin's shrike (Lanius gubernator), Bay-backed shrike (Lanius vittatus), Long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach), Grey-backed shrike (Lanius tephronotus), Mountain shrike or Grey-capped shrike, Lanius validirostris[/i]), Mackinnon's shrike (Lanius mackinnoni), Lesser grey shrike (Lanius minor), Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus), Northern shrike (Lanius borealis), Great grey shrike or Northern shrike (Lanius excubitor), Southern grey shrike (Lanius meridionalis), [/i]), Steppe grey shrike (Lanius pallidirostris), Chinese grey shrike (Lanius sphenocercus), Grey-backed fiscal (Lanius excubitoroides), Long-tailed fiscal (Lanius cabanisi), Taita fiscal, (Lanius dorsalis), Somali fiscal (Lanius somalicus), Northern fiscal (Lanius humeralis), Southern fiscal (Lanius collaris), Uhehe fiscal (Lanius collaris marwitzi), São Tomé fiscal (Lanius newtoni), Woodchat shrike (Lanius senator), Masked shrike (Lanius nubicus).
Genus Corvinella: Yellow-billed shrike (Corvinella corvina).
Genus Urolestes: Magpie shrike (Urolestes melanoleucus).
Genus Eurocephalus: Northern white-crowned shrike (Eurocephalus ruppelli), Southern white-crowned shrike (Eurocephalus anguitimens).
Tiger shrike
Red-backed shrike
Bull-headed shrike
Loggerhead shrike
Northern shrike
Southern grey shrike
Chinese grey shrike
São Tomé fiscal
Masked shrike
Other birds carry the Shrike name: Helmetshrikes (Prionopidae); , Puffback shrikes, Bush shrikes, Tchagras and Boubous (Malaconotidae).
Even less related: Cuckoo-shrikes (Campephagidae).
Australasian Butcherbirds are not Shrikes, they are so named for the shared behavior.
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter plane was also called Würger - after the bird, not the kind of killer which might have been even more fitting.
"Plus half our shiny objects???"
"Under an exclusive marketing agreement, with me."
Curtiss A12 Shrike
Curtiss A 18 Shrike :
The Aero COmmander 500S Shrike Commander
And if you find you're followed by radar, send in an AGM-45 Shrike
but be aware you might get a Bell X9 shrike in return..
The A18 is an interesting beast, as it is one of the few front-line fighter aircraft at the beginning of WW2 that never saw combat.
"I discovered it had a thrush on me."
1. a brown, medium-sized wading bird
2. a made-up creature used in assigning a mischievously impossible task (a snipe hunt).
3. in Navy slang, an engineering staff member (anonymous poem: "The Snipe's Lament”).
1. to shoot at a target while hidden from view.
(Origins in British India, 1770s, a measure of skill to become a sniper: to hunt and kill a snipe.)
2. to perpetrate a verbal attack.
Middle English (Snipe). Scandinavian, Icelandic (Mýrisnípa). Old Norse (Snípa). Dutch (Snip). German (Schnepfe).
Snipe (Scolopacidae ; Rostratulidae): a wading bird known for brown camouflage and elusive behavior. Its long, thin bill traps food even when closed: insect larvae, also some bugs, worms, invertebrates. Found in wetlands. In courtship, feathers produce a drumming sound during a power dive.
Coenocorypha:
Chatham snipe (C. pusilla ), Subantarctic snipe (C. aucklandica), Auckland snipe (C. a. aucklandica), Antipodes snipe (C. a. meinertzhagenae), Campbell snipe (C. a. perseverance), Snares snipe (C. huegeli), North Island snipe or Little Barrier Snipe (C. barrierensis), South Island snipe or Stewart Island Snipe (C. iredalei Rothschild), Forbes's snipe (C. chathamica), Viti Levu snipe (C. miratropica), New Caledonian snipe (Coenocorypha neocaledonica), Norfolk snipe (Coenocorypha sp.).
Gallinago:
Solitary snipe (Gallinago solitaria), Latham's snipe (Gallinago hardwickii), Wood snipe (Gallinago nemoricola), Pin-tailed snipe (Gallinago stenura), Swinhoe's snipe (Gallinago megala), African snipe (Gallinago nigripennis), Madagascar snipe (Gallinago macrodactyla), Great snipe (Gallinago media), Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago), Wilson's snipe (Gallinago delicata), South American snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae), Puna snipe (Gallinago andina), Noble snipe (Gallinago nobilis), Giant snipe (Gallinago undulata), Fuegian snipe (Gallinago stricklandii), Jameson's snipe (Gallinago jamesoni), Imperial snipe (Gallinago imperialis.
Lymnocryptes:
Jack snipe (Lymnocryptes minimus).
Campbell snipe
Solitary snipe
Snares snipe
Wood snipe
Madagascar snipe
South American snipe
Noble snipe
Giant snipe
Jack snipe
So with the films and going by the meaning "to shoot from a hidden place", sniping includes:
That's what immediately came to mind. Any more?
https://baesystems.com/en-uk/heritage/sopwith-snipe#
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