bird of passage

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A migratory bird, especially a passage migrant (“a bird that stops somewhere for a short time during a seasonal migration”).

   “There is a wonderful conformity between the vegetation of ſome plants, and the arrival of certain birds of paſſage. [Carl] Linnaeus obſerves that the wood anemone blows in Sweden on the arrival of the ſwallow; and the marſh mary-gold, Caltha, when the cuckoo ſings.”

2. isim Someone passing through a place and only staying for a short time; an itinerant.

   “The muſick and entertainments of Bath are over for this ſeason; and all our gay birds of paſſage have taken their flight to Briſtol-vvell, Tunbridge, Brighthelmſtone, Scarborough, Harrovvgate, &c.”