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Example sentences for "great flocks"

  • By the end of December the young have flown out and are capable of providing for themselves; they then collect in great flocks, that fly about in company with the old birds.

  • They wander much about the country, and appear unexpectedly in great flocks in certain places, which they leave as suddenly when food becomes scarce.

  • There will be great flocks of Wild Geese coming down from the North, and they often rest on the mill pond; or a Loon may chance down the river, and a Grebe or two.

  • The best way to kill these Fowl is, to burn a Piece of Marsh, or Savanna, and as soon as it is burnt, they will come in great Flocks to get the Roots, where you kill what you please of them.

  • Also in the River we saw great Store of Ducks, Teal, Widgeon; and in the Woods, great Flocks of Parrakeeto's.

  • There were found here on a small island the eggs of a species of goose--rotgansen[139] which comes yearly to Holland in great flocks, but whose breeding place was before unknown.

  • And before white men light their fires, when the days begin to grow cold, the swifts have assembled in great flocks on the Gulf of Mexico, whence they go to spend the winter in Central and South America.

  • In the last-mentioned district it was very abundant, occurring in great flocks.

  • Common on the hills back of the town of Sulu, and very abundant in Tawi Tawi where it occurs in great flocks, but very wild and extremely difficult to approach.

  • It hawks after insects during the day, and may sometimes be seen hunting in great flocks just at sundown.


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