sand martin

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sand martin

a small brown European songbird, Riparia riparia, with white underparts: it nests in tunnels bored in sand, river banks, etc.: family Hirundinidae (swallows and martins)

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If the bank swallow his insults to Scotland, the steady trickle of customers closing their accounts deserves to become a Biblical flood.