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Sentence Examples In Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Romania populations are large, and it is a common bird to see in forested regions. It may assist in the detection of prey near the sea surface as a bird flies low over it. In a common technique, a snare is tied near the base of the bird's throat, which allows the bird only to swallow small fish. Roasting originally meant turning meat or a bird on a spit in front of a fire. Their subject matter includes representations of animals including bison and, arguably, several different bird species. The pages of ornamentation have motifs familiar from metalwork and jewellery that pair alongside bird and animal decoration. The Liverpool badge is based on the city's liver bird, which in the past had been placed inside a shield. The Olympic Park was planned to incorporate 45 hectares of wildlife habitat, with a total of 525 bird boxes, and 150 bat boxes. Approximately 400 bird species inhabit Denmark and about 160 of those breed in the country. The United States is home to 428 mammal species, 784 bird species, 311 reptile species, and 295 amphibian species. The bald eagle is both the national bird and national animal of the United States, and is an enduring symbol of the country itself. It is relatively tame and drawn to human activities, and is frequently voted Britain's national bird in polls. The English North Sea coast is an important area of bird life and is a habitat for many shore and wading birds. There are numerous areas set aside to protect the local fauna and flora, including a number of important sea bird nesting sites. Over 200 species of bird have been recorded on Arran including black guillemot, eider, peregrine falcon and the golden eagle. Other commonly known fauna of Bermuda include its national bird, the Bermuda petrel or cahow. Many bird species, including seven species of penguin breed in the British Antarctic Territories. They are home to large bird populations, although many no longer breed on the main islands because of competition from introduced species. The total bird list for the Chagos Archipelago, including Diego Garcia, consists of 91 species, with large breeding populations of 16 species. The CAP has furthermore been criticised due to its effect on farmland bird populations. Show More Sentences His wallpapers and textiles, featuring stylised bird and plant forms in bold outlines with flat colors, were used widely. It consists of a small bird perched on a tall bronze pole, and is designed so that the bird seems to disappear when viewed from the front. Kuwait is situated at the crossroads of several major bird migration routes and between 2 and 3 million birds pass each year. These tend to attract bird populations, which can pose a hazard to aircraft in the form of bird strikes. To date more than 856 bird species have been recorded in Ethiopia, twenty of which are endemic to the country. To the east of the Sierra Nevada are Owens Valley and Mono Lake, an essential migratory bird habitat. While the Sierra rosy finch is the only bird native to the high Arctic region, other bird species such as the hummingbird and Clark's nutcracker. The hornero, living across most of the national territory, was chosen as the national bird in 1928 after a lower school survey. The nene is a handsome bird that almost became extinct in the wild but was reintroduced successfully from ones bred in captivity. The baby bird may snuggle with its nestmates for warmth but when food is offered they are strict competitors. These sacs are connected to the lungs and are filled with air when the bird breathes in. Just as it is going to hit the water a bird will fold its wings against its body. Should one of the pair die the other bird will leave the breeding ground and pair up with another single bird. The oldest known wild golden eagle was a bird banded in Sweden which was recovered 32 years later. However, there are no confirmed accounts of predation by other bird species on golden eagle nests. It is the official bird of Gifu, Nagano, and Toyama Prefectures and is a protected species nationwide. The Scottish crossbill was confirmed as a unique species in August 2006, on the basis of having a distinctive bird song. The genus name is derived from the Latin name of a game bird, probably the black grouse. When he pauses to shoot a male western capercaillie taking advantage of his apparent numbness, she scares away the bird. This was the first time the bird has bred in the Netherlands in living memory. Show More Sentences It is an elegant bird, soaring on long wings held at a dihedral, and long forked tail, twisting as it changes direction. In 1989, six Swedish birds were released at a site in north Scotland and four Swedish and a Welsh bird in Buckinghamshire. The red kite is the landscape bird of Scania, and the coat of arms of the municipality of Tomelilla. The bird apparently realized that the alarm call was no longer appropriate and switched to the nonalarm call in mid-vocalization. To begin with, bird watchers are often more eager to hit the road than their nonbirding colleagues. The spring, Oswald's Well, is supposed to have originated where the bird dropped the arm from the tree. From the tower rises a red kite, a bird almost extinct elsewhere in Britain but thriving here. The bird catches food off the surface or by pursuit diving, and forages alone or in small flocks. The Atlantic puffin is the provincial bird of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In fact, the earliest known modern bird, Gansus yumenensis, had essentially the same structure. When the bird captures and tries to swallow a large fish, the fish is caught in the bird's throat. When the bird returns to the fisherman's raft, the fisherman helps the bird to remove the fish from its throat. The symbolic liver bird of Liverpool is commonly thought to be a cross between an eagle and a cormorant. Bird of prey or predatory bird, also known as raptors, refers to several species of birds that hunt and feed on rodents and other small animals. Birds of prey generally prey on vertebrates, which are usually quite large relative to the size of the bird. The genus name Circus is derived from Ancient Greek kirkos, meaning 'circle', referring to a bird of prey named for its circling flight. In winter, the hen harrier is a bird of open country, and will then roost communally, often with merlins and marsh harriers. This harrier tends to be a very vocal bird while it glides over its hunting ground. The hen harrier is a bird of open habitats such as heather moorland and extensive agriculture. It is presented to an individual in recognition of wild bird protection and countryside conservation. Show More Sentences It lives in crevices, burrows at the base of trees, holes in tree trunks, hollow logs and bird nesting boxes and sometimes enters buildings. Likewise he gives a good description of an osprey fishing, but adds the mythical detail that the bird has one webbed foot. The Ospreys part of the team's name was inspired by the use of the bird as Swansea RFC's centenary badge. The Oilbird is one of the few bird species to use batlike echolocation to help navigate the night and cave darkness. In reality, the Air Force was never able to place a bird in orbit that quickly. Then she raised both hands above her shoulders and flipped him the bird with each one. A McGill University commerce student named Seymour Schulich was looking for a bird course to bolster his grades. The public has the impression that students are just taking a bunch of bird courses. The lifeguard said he would call animal control and I went back to stand watch over the broken bird. He threw off his helmet, released himself from the belts, straps, hoses and wires and climbed down from the broken bird. He was shunned by the entire community, and died shortly after, a broken bird. The park is one of Australia's chief refuges for several bird species, including the Burdekin duck and magpie goose. The dwarf plucked the bird from its cachette, throttled it with a twist of his knotty hands, and held it up for the gunman to admire. The cat bird had a forlorn cry, like a whimpering child or the animal it is named for. Falco chicquera, the chiquera falcon. This small bird of prey has the lower mandible formed like the two preceding. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass along its gullet and down into its crop. My informant seemed to look upon the swift as an uncanny bird, and called it by a name I had never heard before, devil-screecher. After striking the bird, the pilot feathered the left, damaged engine's propeller. Breeding pairs will frequently hunt cooperatively, with one bird flushing the prey toward its mate. A stall seller, Bernie Rayner, infamously sold bird seed to tourists at inflated prices. Show More Sentences America has its bald eagle and New Zealand has its kiwi, a flightless brown bird. We perceive the bird and frog views simultaneously, although what hybrid monstrosity we become in the process is not clear. As a bird escaping an unwholesome cage to the grandsome freedom of the invigorating air. Delgard got out the handkerchief again and blew his nose loud enough to alert any bird or groundling within several hundred yards. It was a bird, a small hawkling. A baby. And as she watched, it began to stretch its wet, feeble wings. In total, more than 200 different species of bird have been seen at the RSPB reserve at Conwy, including seasonal visitors. If an extremely rare bird turns up, the island will see a significant increase in numbers of birders. The Lake District is home to a range of bird species, and the RSPB maintain a reserve in Haweswater. Other bird species resident to the Lake District include the buzzard, dipper, peregrine and raven. Several hippoboscid flies have been identified as vectors of Haemoproteus species,haemosporidian blood parasites that cause bird malarias. The slant-eyed man was small, but the great hippocephalic bird was there to see he was obeyed. Among the 290 bird species identified on the Farne Islands, is the rare seabird the roseate tern. The hoatzin is a very colorful bird with a blue head, a tuft of feathers standing up on the head, and an orange iris in the eye. It's an ill bird that fouls his own nest, and we are all Scots folk and all Hieland. Not a bird in sight until I almost stepped on a solitary bleary eyed jimmy woodser pigeon staring or drinking at an oily puddle. I guess, he is trying to ketch mebut it won't du. I'm tu old a bird to be ketch'd with chaff. The king parrot is a magnificent bird, and the clear blue of a Melbourne spring day sets them off perfectly. On the same day, he presented his mammal and bird specimens to the Zoological Society. While they stood there close to the old linhay a bird came flying round them in wide circles, uttering shrill cries. Around 668 bird species are found there, including crows, sparrows, mynas, hawks, falcons, and eagles. Show More Sentences The structure is separated into four white concrete parabolic vaults, which together resemble a bird on the ground perched for flight. The alectryomancer sometimes wishes to know the name of a person and allows a bird to pick corn grains from letters drawn in a circle on the ground. All you could see of the alligator were its two eyes above the water, and suddenly it snatched up and caught the poor bird with its strong jaws full of sharp teeth. Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all. On a bird, apteric skin is found on the face, abdomen, and feet. The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States. Plus the bird is endangered. So, yeah, I'd probably have a problem with sitting down to a plate of baldie for dinner. You can recognize this species of bird by the banding on the wing. The bird has not been hunted in Scotland or Germany for over 30 years. Taken literally, the term bird of prey has a wide meaning that includes many birds that hunt and feed on animals and also birds that eat very small insects. As a rule, mallophagans are host-specific, each species being restricted and adapted to a single bird species or groups of closely related bird species. This allows them to take longer foraging trips, since they can come back with more food energy for their chick than a bird that can only carry one fish at a time. Fireworks can also be used in an agricultural capacity as bird scarers. He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast. Dens in rocks or burrows are lined with dry grasses and bird feathers. More rarely, red squirrels may also eat bird eggs or nestlings. Other activities include sailing, fishing, cycling, and bird watching. Puss, who seemed in a great measure recovered from her illness, now made a hearty meal of the dead bird, and then went to sleep with much apparent satisfaction. In February 2001, the sale of bird seed in the square was stopped and other measures were introduced to discourage the pigeons including the use of birds of prey. The RSPB does not run bird hospitals nor offer animal rescue services. Surely no young chippy was ever so stout and so emphatic as this bird. Show More Sentences Papua was part of the Australian landmass, and is home to a unique fauna and flora closely related to that of Australia, including over 600 bird species. Because I have over 300 photos and no longer a limit of 24-27 shots on this new camera, I was able to snap a couple of pictures of this coccineous bird. They have relatively short wings due to their need for economical movement underwater, and consequently have the highest flight costs of any bird. In nature, dermestids can be found on old, dry carcasses, in bird and mammal nests, while the adults of some species visit flowers, where they feed on pollen and nectar. Nobody had flown beside an osprey, painted by Audubon as if seen aloft by a companion bird, gripping a fish in its talons and opening its beak in midcry. Aunt Zena and Uncle Bill Druss are the coolest eightysomethings I know of, and I will gladly eat the early bird special or visit Sawgrass Mills with them anytime. Artificial tests, then, can hardly err on the side of supplying too many opportunities for one bird to see another perform the act which is the model. My first thought was that it would make a fine accompaniment to my evening meal, for your puffin is a fatsome bird and fries nicely in its own juices. Numerous events take place throughout including festivals such as Rose Week and special activities such as bird watching evenings and great beast hunts. The grass is kept short by cattle and sheep, which also add trample and add texture to the sward, forming tussocks that favour a number of bird species. The reserves often have bird hides provided for birdwatchers and many provide visitor centres, which include information about the wildlife that can be seen there. On 10 November 1951 he became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, and realised that it was impossible to confirm in reference books. He held his right hand up in front of his face and flipped the bird. The Merlin has for centuries been well regarded as a falconry bird. She had a bottle of, well, bird spit each day. It was the stuff birds gob up as glue when they're making a nest, apparently, and it was supposed to be good for the skin. If an apparently empty nest has an owner the immature bird will abandon it without putting up a struggle when the owner arrives to claim the nest. The current guess is that it was the wonderfully named dull-coloured grassquit, because this is the bird with the closest genetic code to the Galapagos finches. The English Irish Sea coast is an important area of estuaries and bird life, with Wirral being a peninsula bounded by two rivers, the River Dee and the River Mersey. The introduction of alien stoats just prior to 2015, a natural predator of the common vole and thus of the Orkney vole, may be harming native bird populations. And folks laughed at Santos Dumont, at the Wrights, and at all the other fellows, who said they could take a heavier-than-air machine, and skim above the clouds like a bird. Show More Sentences The bird family, Corvidae is the primary distributor of the conifer seeds. These locations provide breeding habitat for dozens of bird species. Until 1999, a pair of golden eagles were still known to nest in Maine but they are now believed to be absent as a breeding bird from the Eastern United States. Lough Neagh attracts bird watchers from many nations due to the number and variety of birds which winter and summer in the boglands and shores around the lough. Another bird species which has had recolonisation attempts is the red kite which, as of 2012, have a population of approximately 90 in the dense forest areas near Grizedale. The single surviving altarpiece from Melchior Broederlam, completed for Champmol in 1399, has a gold sky populated not only by God and angels, but also a flying bird. This is a typical harrier, which hunts on long wings held in a shallow V in its low flight during which the bird closely hugs the contours of the land below it. Can clearcuts increase bird species richness in managed forests? In the late 19th century, stoats were introduced into New Zealand to control rabbits, where they have had a devastating effect on native bird populations. This project has been pronounced as one of the best places to view birds by Bill Oddie, the celebrity bird watcher and former host of the BBC's Spring Watch Programme. Stoats were introduced into New Zealand during the late 19th century to control rabbits and hares, but are now a major threat to native bird populations. On the winding road to Petropolis, they did not speak, not about modernism or the construction of houses or antique bird jails or fine how-do-you-dos. The remaining insects included larvae of midges, soldier-flies, horse-flies, may-flies, a hymenopteron, and a bird louse, of a species known to infest the Shoveller. The name James Bond came from that of the American ornithologist James Bond, a Caribbean bird expert and author of the definitive field guide Birds of the West Indies. The warnings were ignored and stoats began to be introduced from Britain in the 1880s, resulting in a noticeable decline in bird populations within six years. A youth or females hold a bird, supposed to be the iynx, in their hands. For the odd and curious of us, to fly like a bird is a not an easy thing. Over 200 species of bird reside permanently and another 200 migrate. It was dedicated to her father, creating the bird house as a tiny home for my dad and Emin thought of the works' title from the idea of nature and nurture. Nevertheless, it does appear that many of the processes of mate choice and sexual selection described for bird and mammal leks also apply to anuran choruses. Show More Sentences It is one of the most sexually dimorphic in size of living bird species, only exceeded by the larger types of bustards and a select few members of the pheasant family. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of bird? Words that rhyme with bird What is the past tense of bird? What is the plural of bird? What is the adverb for bird? What is the adjective for bird? What is the noun for bird? Translations for bird Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words birchwood birching Birches birches Bircher bircher Bird birdbath birdbox birdbrain birdbrained birdcage 4-letter Words Starting With b bi bir