#Charadriinae which includes the #lapwing, #dotterel and #plover. According to #Kivi, the street was named after the bird often seen on the former city commons and should have been #Kiivitaja. Why a relatively obscure dialect term was chosen is unclear. The word also translates as
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Nice reputation. Two species breed in #Estonia: #kiivitaja, northern lapwing, aka peewit, etc., #VanellusVanellus and #ValgesabaKiivitaja, white-tailed lapwing, #VLeucurus. Its rather loose translations sometimes give ‘#plover’ but this is a member of the not quite settled subfamily
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#Kiive (Kiive)
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Ülemiste
One of the numerous alternative or dialectal names for #kiivitaja, the #lapwing. Other local names include #hirmutaja (the ‘frightener’), kiivits, #PoolaKana (Polish chicken), sookajak (marsh gull), tillvitt, tüvitaja and #vaenulind (hostile bird).
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