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Example sentences for "common bird"

  • In the past it must always have been a common bird, as it is one of the few quite easily identified birds used in hieroglyphics (in spite of which, to my astonishment, in a recent work on Egypt this owl is called the Horned Owl).

  • I have seen it sitting in a cleft of the wall of the Ramaseum and other temples, but it is by no means a common bird.

  • This is a common bird, and though nearly all migrate, I believe a few remain to breed in exceptionally favourable places, as I have heard that it has been observed throughout the summer months on certain waters.

  • The Micronesia Broadbill at Guam is not a common bird, and like its relative Rhipidura rufifrons is an inhabitant of forested areas, especially those containing brushy undercover.

  • He writes (field notes) that the fantail is a common bird and is found in forest and brush lands.

  • Coultas (field notes) writes that the starling is a common bird at Ponape.

  • Coultas (field notes) notes that the reed-warbler at Ponape is a "common bird of the small bush and grasslands.

  • This was a common bird in the lowlands away from forest.

  • This was a common bird at Quoin Hill but was not seen elsewhere by me.

  • This is a common bird of the coconut groves around Tawau and on Siamil Island.

  • A common bird in pine groves in northern United States, or during migrations in birch woods.

  • A common bird on the dry, rocky foothills of the Rockies and westward.

  • A common bird of the southeastern states and north to Connecticut, frequenting open woods, thickets and gardens.

  • Now, however, with the spread of cultivation, it has reappeared, and is once more becoming a common bird in the more thickly-settled districts.

  • The Little Blue Heron, though widely distributed, is not anywhere a common bird.

  • On the pampas of Buenos Ayres this Duck is not a common bird.

  • The Wryneck is a common bird in the south-eastern counties of England and to the west as far as Somersetshire; but I have never heard its note in Devon or Cornwall; it is rare also in the northern counties.

  • The Tree Creeper, though a common bird, is less familiarly known than many others of much rarer occurrence, yet, if once observed, can be confounded with no other.

  • The Cole Tit is in many districts a common bird, inhabiting woods and hedgerows, and feeding on insects, for which it hunts with unceasing activity among the branches and twigs of trees.

  • It is not a common bird, and was until within the last few years considered to be migratory; but so many instances have occurred in which its nest has been found, that no doubt is now entertained of its being a constant resident.


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