Every Sunday that we went into the country we met numbers of Italians out shooting, and their bags seemed to consist wholly of small birds.
It feeds chiefly on small birds, dragon-flies, and beetles.
It feeds almost entirely on small birds, but varies this diet with beetles and dragon-flies.
This goes far beyond making up for the eggs of small birds, pheasants and partridges.
These acts are beneficial; but they are not to be compared with the amount of harm he does, as a cut-throat and robber among the useful small birds.
It lives on small birds, rodents, bats, fish, reptiles and large insects.
In December, when the Cachila Pipit rears its second brood, the Milvago chimango also has young, and feeds them almost exclusively on the young of various species of small birds.
Their general food consists of small birds, rodents, serpents, insects, and sometimes corn.
Lenz tells us that one Tree Falcon will destroy no fewer than 1,095 small birds annually.
Small birds of the sparrow tribe infested the newly-sown land in clouds, but worse than these enemies were the vast armies of great ants.
I set little boys to scream from daylight till sunset to scare the clouds of small birds; but the boys screamed themselves to sleep, and the sparrows quickly discovered the incapacity of the watchers.
The country was swarming with these small birds, which are no doubt delicacies; but if you have a good appetite they are a little too light on the stomach.
They permitted the natives to steal by night, and the swarms of small birds destroyed an incredible quantity by day.
One evening, while collecting specimens of small birds on the open marsh, the writer killed a pretty right-and-left at flamingoes with No 6.
The Phalanger lives amongst the branches of the trees, on which it climbs about at night with great agility; its food consists partly of fruits and partly of small birds, which it easily captures during its nocturnal excursions.
Its food consists principally of small birds; but it scruples not to attack the larger species, and sometimes gives battle even to the kite.
Small birds should be allowed to stand at least a week in a dry place before the bindings are removed.
Small birds, like warblers, will set perfectly hard in forty-eight hours in a moderate temperature with dry air.
Small birds, unless there are too many of them, may be kept in a refrigerator after you have drawn, washed, and wiped them.
This is the most delicious of small birds, and may be either roasted or broiled.
I say fortunately, not because I fear the extinction of small birds, but because of the miserable fate that awaits the captive.
Certainly, I have seldom seen such vast numbers of small birds.
Small birds swarmed, as I have already stated, in every ploughed field.
One autumn some correspondence appeared lamenting the scarcity of small birds (and again in the spring the same cry was raised); people said that they had walked along the roads or footpaths and there were none in the hedges.
Sometimes it sees a possible chance in a flock of small birdsabsorbed in searching for grass seeds.
Nunhead Cemetery is a favourite winter resort of a number of small birds--starlings, chaffinches, and greenfinches, and a few of other species.
The dear little wren, the lion of small birds, with his short, jerking little tail, I have known and admired from childhood.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small birds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
