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Meanings of weka in English
Spanish
gallirallus australis Synonyms
Examples for "maori hen"
Examples for "maori hen"
1
Here and there on the beach and on the grass wandered bright-coloured Maori hens.
2
The wekas or Maori hens are small, flightless birds, averaging when full grown about two and three-quarter pounds.
3
Hamilton and Sandell went along the coast on the 6th and brought home a dozen Maori hens for the pot.
4
Though we saw and caught innumerable young ones of all sizes, we were never able to find the nests of these Maori hens.
1
The wood hen is a bird rather resembling the pheasant tribe in plumage, but not so handsome.
2
There are wood hens also on the plains; but, though very abundant, they are not much seen.
3
From fat wood hens a good deal of oil can be got, and this oil is very valuable for almost anything where oil is wanted.
Usage of weka in English
1
I really believe the great desire of Brisk's life was to catch a weka.
2
Carpenter said not everyone was likely to be happy and gave the weka as an example.
3
Six kiwis, two little blue penguins, a seal pup and 23 weka were among the casualties.
4
We had some North Island weka enclosures.
5
I looked round, and there was a weka bent on thoroughly investigating the intruder into its domain.
6
Soon there will be a rustle, then a rush, and another furious weka will attack the decoy.
7
Six kiwi, two little blue penguins, a seal pup and 23 weka were killed by dogs over summer.
8
We arose at 7 A.M. next day and breakfasted on porridge, weka, fried heart, "hard-tack" and cocoa.
9
The quail and weka were roadkill, but the other birds and mice had been collected from a 1080 drop-zone, he said.
10
A compromise is close in the stand-off over what to do with inbred weka on the Open Bay Islands in south-Westland.
11
DOC said it spoke to one of the protestors, but it hadn't been able to establish how or when the weka was shot.
12
In what could be seen as a comedy of errors, it turned out that the weta was a prey item of the weka.
13
He now had a collection of eggs of all birds which nest on the island, with the exception of the weka and the tern.
14
Just last week anti-1080 activists put dead birds, including kererū and weka on the steps of Parliament, claiming they were poisoned by the toxin.
15
Brisk, too, blundered after them, but I had no fear of his destroying the charm of the day by taking even a weka's life.
16
He needs to distance himself from this latest criminal act and tell the police what he knows about who killed this weka, Mr Hague said.
About this term
Frequent collocations
Weka through the time