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Example sentences for "these birds"

  • These birds in their natural state never descend from the tops of the loftiest trees, where they live in small flocks and build their nests.

  • In an instant, as if by magic, the shady nook seemed alive with these birds, although there was certainly none visible when I entered the jungle.

  • He used to sleep on the top of a box in a corner of the room, in the usual position of these birds, namely, with the long tail laid right over on the back, and the beak thrust underneath the wing.

  • It is possible that the hooked and twisted jaws of the large-headed class may be effective weapons of annoyance when in the gizzards or stomachs of these birds, but I unfortunately omitted to ascertain whether this was really the fact.

  • It has been mentioned before, that the feathers of these birds are in great request, being much used in making their cloaks and other ornamental parts of their dress.

  • These birds in many respects resemble in their habits the Carranchas.

  • These birds, although thus commonly feeding together, are far from being friends.

  • These birds do not go in coveys, nor do they conceal themselves like the English kind.

  • These birds are, moreover, quarrelsome and very passionate; tearing up the grass with their bills from rage.

  • The first victims were a flock of black ducks, which with the usual readiness to decoy of these birds, had flown in and lit among the decoys before La Salle could warn his boys, who had their backs turned at the time.

  • All that afternoon their passage was incessant, but no open pool offered rest and food to that weary host, and in that fine, still atmosphere it was useless to attempt to deceive by crude imitations of the calls of these birds.

  • I dressed one of these birds, and found it juicy and well-flavoured.

  • These birds, from the observations of three springs and two autumns, are most punctual in their return; and exhibit a new migration unnoticed by the writers, who supposed they never were to be seen in any of the southern counties.

  • This was easily told, for there is as much difference between the male and female of these birds, as between the brilliant peacock and his dingy spouse.

  • You will imagine there could be no doubt, since the male and female of these birds are so very unlike in the colour of their plumage.

  • The whole scene puzzled Congo, who was not from an ostrich country, and was but indifferently acquainted with the habits of these birds.

  • Yet the structure of each of these birds is good for it, under the conditions of life to which it is exposed, for each has to live by a struggle; but it is not necessarily the best possible under all possible conditions.

  • These birds nest by thousands on Bird Rock and on the cliffs of Labrador.

  • This odor is always noticeable about an island inhabited by Petrels and is always retained by the eggs or skins of these birds.

  • These birds have a plumage of bluish gray, the wings being darker and the underparts lightest.

  • These birds nest in numbers on the island of San Pedro Martir in the Gulf of California.

  • These birds, as do the other Gannets, have great powers of flight and without apparent effort dart about with the speed of an arrow.

  • There seems to be only a slight difference between the eastern and western forms of these birds, so slight, indeed, that they can be distinguished only by having the birds in hand.

  • A mountain chickadee's nest was also found, and here I heard for the first time one of these birds sing.

  • Perhaps the reader will care to know something about the winter habits of these birds.

  • Sconce has bred back upon his farm about 400 of these birds.

  • Two men killed $300 worth of these birds at that time.

  • The plumage of these birds has so much commercial value, for fishermen's flies as well as for women's hats, that the birds will be killed as long as their feathers can be sold and any birds remain alive.

  • By 1908, the plume-hunters had so far won the fight for the egrets that Florida had been swept almost as bare of these birds as the Colorado desert.

  • About 1872," says Mr. Forbush, "there was a great flight of these birds on Cape Cod and Nantucket.

  • We saw of these Birds in our Passage to the Northward, after doubling Cape Horn.

  • We saw 2 of these Birds in Latitude 19 degrees before we Arrived at George's Island.

  • We first saw some of these birds in the Latitude of 40 degrees South, after our first coming into those Seas.

  • These birds are of a dark brown or Chocolate Colour, with some white feathers under their wings, and are as big as Ravens.

  • It was a difficult task, but we at last made Ebo understand that we must shoot some of these birds, when by his way he seemed to indicate that if we had only told him sooner we might have had as many as we liked.

  • I daresay there is, Nat; but not on account of these birds, my lad.

  • These birds, which rank among Nature's wonders, are almost confined to the Australian region.

  • Though Storm-Petrels and Petrels of various kinds may be seen in the Northern Hemisphere, yet the Southern Hemisphere, with its enormous expanse of water, is the headquarters of these birds.

  • The lovely Fruit-Pigeons of East Australian scrubs are, perhaps, the most beautiful of all, so it will readily be seen how fortunate we are with regard to these birds.

  • As these birds do not fly, they have no big wing-muscles, and so do not need the ridge of bone down the breast.

  • Large numbers of these birds rest in the fields of ripening grain in the course of their long migratory flight.

  • One of these birds is usually to be seen engaged in its craft above the bare slope of the hill on which Mussoorie is built.

  • These birds are so different from most of their brethren that they are held to constitute a sub-family.

  • I have seen one of these birds fly to a branch in a tree, uttering its curious call, and then hop on to another branch in the same tree.

  • Goldsmith considered one of these birds worthy of introduction into his "Deserted Village," as contributing to the poetic conception of desolation.

  • These birds do not confine their singing to the night, like the true nocturnal birds, and are most vocal when inspired by the light of the moon.


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