moorfowl

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From moor + fowl.

The only living things there were the wild birds, the moorfowl in the heather, hawks that built in the rock face, and pigeons that made their nest in hollow places. — Paul the minstrel, and other stories, Arthur Christopher Benson
Never a word passed between us; each set his mouth and kept his eyes in front of him, and lifted up his foot and set it down again, like people lifting weights at a country play;[27] all the while, with the moorfowl crying “peep!” in the heather, and the light coming slowly clearer in the east. — Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson

red grouse, moorbird, moor-bird, moorgame, Lagopus scoticus

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