ミヤコドリ

noun

Eurasian oystercatcher

A wading bird with black-and-white plumage and a long orange bill. In modern Japanese, the katakana name ミヤコドリ is standard.

• 海かい岸がんでミヤコドリが貝かいをついばんでいた。

  An oystercatcher was pecking at shellfish on the shore.

noun

black-headed gull (archaic)

Archaic name for the black-headed gull, now called ユリカモメ. Found in classical literature; not used in modern ornithology.

See also: ユリカモメ

• 古こ典てんでは、都みやこ鳥どりは今いまのユリカモメを指さすことがある。

  In classical texts, 都鳥 sometimes refers to what is now called ユリカモメ (black-headed gull).

noun

Cinnalepeta pulchella (spiral-shelled gastropod)

A small marine snail with a spiraled shell. The Japanese name is usually written in katakana as ミヤコドリ; also called ミヤコドリガイ.

See also: ミヤコドリガイ

• ミヤコドリは潮ちょう間かん帯たいの岩いわの上うえで見みられる小ちいさな巻まき貝がいだ。

  The ミヤコドリ is a small spiral-shelled snail found on rocks in the intertidal zone.