verb. To quell is to stop or quiet something. An example of quell is to soothe someoneâs anger.
Overview. Black-backed Woodpecker: Small woodpecker with black back, black wings with white spots on flight feathers, barred flanks, white underparts. Head has a conspicuous white cheek mark and yellow crown. Tail is black with white outer tail feathers. Black bill is long and stout. Legs and feet are gray.
This little bird has had three names, dunnock, hedge sparrow and hedge accentor. Dunnocks often go unnoticed as they are dull coloured little birds. They spend a lot of time on the ground or on fences, flying in a jerky way and usually at low level. remember reading bird books back in the 1960âs and they listed the dunnock as hedge sparrow with dunnock in brackets, then some yearâs later they changed it to dunnock with hedge sparrow in brackets,is this because it is considered not a true sparrow but a sub species.