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Meanings of night raven in English

Spanish
martinete

Nocturnal or crepuscular herons.

        martinete
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        Examples for "night heron"
        Examples for "night heron"
        1
        We phoned the Zoo, and were told that it was a night heron.
        The new yorker
        2
        Yellow crowned night heron Piracy has been going on for centuries.
        Wired
        3
        Outside it was dead still until I heard the distinct, guttural "kwock" of a night heron.
        Shadow men
        4
        An aged and sickly wood ibis was killed by a whooping crane; and a night heron killed its mate.
        The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observ...
        5
        At this moment a night heron lit on a branch near Dick, who raised his gun and shot it.
        Dick in the Everglades
        Usage of night raven in English
        1
        I had as live have heard the night raven, come what plague could have come after it.
        Much Ado about Nothing
        2
        I am become like to a pelican of the wilderness: I am like a night raven in the house.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 2
        3
        Swan Day, or, as he might better have been called, Night Raven, kept the country-store in Walton.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 / A Maga...
        4
        "Nothing," said the Jewess, "all about him is as black as the wing of the night raven.
        McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader
        Translations for night raven
        Spanish
        martinete