red-throated diver
Meanings
noun
- Gavia stellata, the smallest member of the loon or diver family, breeding in northern Eurasia and Arctic Canada, with grey head, red throat, white underparts and dark mantle.
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Etymology
From the fact that the species is a diver with a red throat.
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