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Example sentences for "rare bird"

  • Its migration extends south to Buenos Ayres, where it is seen in woods and thickets in pairs or singly; but it is a rare bird, and I have been unable to find out anything about its nesting-habits.

  • It visits Buenos Ayres in small flocks in spring, but is a rare bird with us.

  • I have met with it in the marshy woods and reed-beds along the shores of the Plata, but it is a shy, rare bird in Buenos Ayres.

  • Azara describing it under the name of Tordo pardo roxiso, says it is a rare bird, so that it has probably greatly increased since his time, as it is now quite common in the Plata district.

  • It is a rare bird in most countries of Europe, but is common in several parts of Asia and the whole of the known regions of Africa.

  • Though not a rare bird, it is sparingly distributed.

  • It seems to be a rare bird in the interior Provinces of Canada; my Manitoba correspondents have no fall records, and Professor Rowan has only one for Alberta.

  • The marbled godwit is a rare bird in Florida to-day; I saw only one during the five months of my last winter on the west coast.

  • It is a rare bird in the localities where most of my work on shorebirds has been done and it does not seem to be very common anywhere.

  • He was a rare bird; this American going on a big drunk on water.

  • Skutch writes to me: "Unrecorded from Guatemala, the prothonotary warbler is a rare bird of passage and very rare winter resident in the more southerly portions of Central America.

  • A rare bird of this Province, but is found on Vancouver Island and east to the Rocky Mountains.

  • A rare bird in this Province, found east of the Coast Range.

  • A rare bird in this Province; it has been taken at Vernon and Stewart's Lake.

  • There it may indeed be termed a "rare bird.

  • Years ago we wrote in our wrath, moved thereto by the constant misuse of the term, that such a thing as a "rare bird" does not exist, save only in a relative sense.

  • Should some lost wanderer straggle a few hundred miles thence, it is proclaimed a "rare bird.


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