| 单词 | tanager |
| 例句 | They circle over the Beauty Minister like tanager birds looking for their nest. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “It’s from a scarlet tanager. Tia Rosario found it in the Dominican Republic and just brought it back for me. Isn’t it beautiful?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Here we learn how night factors into the September migrations of orioles, warblers, sparrows, and tanagers; other recent episodes explore bee hummingbirds, in Cuba; Vivaldi’s inspiration by goldfinches; and the difference between ravens and crows. Three Podcasts to Listen to in September 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Dvorak quotes the scarlet tanager in his “American” Quartet. At Mostly Mozart, a Menagerie of Bird-Related Works 2012-08-03T18:26:47Z The main activity was also identical: Participants released colorful powder that flew into the air like a flock of liberated paradise tanagers. Painting Colombia red, blue and green 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The chirp of summer tanagers and warblers, the rare bloop of fish jumping in the stream and the strokes of our paddles were the only sounds to break the quiet. Among the Majestic Trees in Congaree, Slipping Into Silence 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “I see an American redstart. No, it’s a bay-breasted warbler and there’s a summer tanager, a female because it’s yellow-orange.” Birders find an oasis awaits in Manhattan’s concrete jungle 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In Indiana, Matt Igleski, a birding guide, said his spring showstopper is the flashy scarlet tanager. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Each day brings platoons of warblers, vireos, thrushes, tanagers and other migrants. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z After high winds or a storm, they will descend in flocks — primary-colored tanagers and buntings, among others — known as a “fallout” after flying nonstop more than 500 miles. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z A chalkboard at the entrance indicated that recent sightings included scarlet tanagers and white-eyed vireos, not to mention Florida panthers and alligators. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z You’ll want to bring binoculars, which will help you spot ospreys, warblers and tanagers, as well as longer-term residents like robins, finches and chickadees. Keeping a Distance, From Everything but Nature 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Exactly why the area attracts as many as 13,000 tanagers, orioles, buntings, grosbeaks and warblers on a single day is not entirely understood. This dirt parking lot in the San Gabriel Mountains is a magnet for migrating birds 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Female tanagers are generally much duller than their male counterparts, an observation that the researchers confirmed with a spectrophotometer, which measures how much light reflects off a surface. Some Male Birds Fly Under False Colors to Attract Mates, Study Suggests 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Similarly, most populations of the Western-breeding Western tanager overwinter in Mexico. The Trump administration is cutting back protection for migratory birds 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z At the least, he said, he spotted the scarlet tanagers. A birdwatcher. A dog. Another viral racial incident in America 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z David Ringer, chief network officer of the National Audubon Society, advised New Yorkers to look for scarlet tanagers, birds so brightly colored they “look like they’re emitting their own light.” Opinion | How to Save Summer 2020 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z "You can see a wave of tanagers coming through." Now’s a great time to become a backyard naturalist — here’s how 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z That means that the microstructures may have evolved as a “cheap way” for male tanagers to enhance their appearance, Ms. McCoy said. Some Male Birds Fly Under False Colors to Attract Mates, Study Suggests 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Year-round abundance map for the Western tanager based on computer models using eBird data. The Trump administration is cutting back protection for migratory birds 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Among them were two toucanets and 16 tanagers - small, brightly-coloured birds that are commonly targeted by traffickers for their vivid plumage. Man held at airport with 20 birds in suitcase 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Leaves remembering, sudden as a name Recalled from nowhere, remembering morning, Fresh wind in high grass, cricket on plowshare, Whisper of stream in the green-shadowed place, Thrush and tanager keeping season. W.S. Merwin, Poet of Life’s Evanescence, Dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Tanagers are, for some reason, referred to as scarlet tanager songbird and western tanager songbird. Red Dead Redemption 2's surprising joy: its vast array of … birds 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Male tanagers have microstructures in their feathers that enhance their colors, researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Scientific Reports. Some Male Birds Fly Under False Colors to Attract Mates, Study Suggests 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z He carried the colorful headband that he had been wearing all week—made from toucan and tanager feathers—in a plastic food container. How Carbon Trading Became a Way of Life for California’s Yurok Tribe 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Painted buntings and summer tanagers flash among cabbage palms. The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Migrating birds, particularly songbirds including warblers, thrushes, sparrows and tanagers, are distracted by the lights while flying at night, she said. Group wants Bend internationally recognized for darkness 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z “Warblers, thrushes, tanagers, they’re down in Central and South America,” he said. ‘Bomb Cyclone’: Rare Snow in South as North Braces for Bitter Cold 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z She serves bananas and papayas to a dozen species of brightly coloured tanagers, and massive lunches of soup and empanadas to birders. Ornithology: All eyes on the 10,000 species : Nature : Nature Research 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z It is home to some 15 species, including a pygmy owl, a mountain tanager and a foliage gleaner, which are found nowhere else. Colombia’s future involves fewer terrorists and more ecotourists 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z A news release from Tucker County Convention and Visitors Bureau said species likely to be seen include bobolinks, scarlet tanagers and Baltimore and orchard orioles. Birding festival set for next month at Canaan Valley Resort 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Warblers, vireos, tanagers and gnatcatchers are tiny bundles of nerves, flitting through treetops in near perpetual motion, their gorgeous colors a blessing both for the eyes and for identification. When Caterpillars Move In, the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo Feasts 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Take tanagers and wrens, which mostly mate for life. Why Do Small Birds Have Sweeter Songs? 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z The Tucker County Convention and Visitors Bureau says in a news release that species likely to be seen during the walks include bobolinks, scarlet tanagers and northern waterthrush. Bird watchers to flock to Canaan Valley for annual festival 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Although some tanager species do emphasize oration over attire, like the aptly named drab hemispingus, some, like the mountain tanager, are both dashing and melodious. Colorful Birds Can Also Belt Tunes 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z On previous days, the researchers scooped up more brilliant spring migrants, including a scarlet tanager and a Baltimore oriole. Researchers Hope Bird-Friendly Glass Can Help Reduce Migration Deaths 2014-05-13T14:46:54Z Birds that live both in our area and on Ometepe Island include Baltimore orioles, indigo buntings, yellow warblers, ovenbirds, summer tanagers and ruby-throated hummingbirds. Migratory birds teach kids in Fairfax County and Central America about their cultures 2012-06-01T14:02:22Z And my eye was caught by a flash of scarlet near some trees by my wall, and there was a tanager. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z Red-breasted nuthatch, spotted towhee, varied thrush, northern saw-whet owl, American robin, cedar waxwing, common yellowthroat, American goldfinch and western tanager — I see them all here in the Fraser River estuary. Scientist at Work Blog: Three Mallards, a Merganser and a Bufflehead 2012-03-30T20:25:13Z Willow fronds are startled by the glinting blue of the kingfisher, scarlet of the tanager. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z After the nesting season, the tanager begins to moult and then he is a queer looking object indeed in his motley coat. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z She picked up a palm tanager, a drab olive-green bird at first glance devoid of charm. Nation?s Oldest Birding Group Serves as a Collective Memory 2011-11-28T22:11:18Z It is some years since I have seen a tanager. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z Though I go back to days before the sparrows had driven away not only the worms but all others of their own race, I recall no orioles and scarlet tanagers, no yellow and blue birds. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z For example, on the coast of Texas there are great expanses of terrain unattractive to such birds as warblers, vireos, tanagers, and thrushes. A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 2011-11-02T02:00:14.587Z Although not afflicted with "the fatal gift of beauty," at least not the gaudy kind, like the cardinal's and scarlet tanager's, the mocking-bird's wonderful voice has brought upon him an equal quantity of troubles. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The gorgeous coloring of the scarlet tanager has been its snare and destruction. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z I have heard that tanagers have been seen this spring in places where they have never been seen before. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z And now the flow of legal reiteration and alliteration ceased for a moment, and I listened to the buzzing of a marabunta wasp and the warbling of a blue tanager among the fronds. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Most bird-watching enthusiasts spend their days looking up in the hope of seeing the flash of a yellow warbler or a scarlet tanager. Making New York?s Glass Buildings Safer for Birds 2011-09-15T01:20:04Z The cedar waxwing The gorgeous scarlet tanager who sang in this tree was killed by a sling-shot. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z A tanager would dart a ray of metallic sheen in the wreckage of timber and dead branches about us, or some creature would call briefly, melancholy wise, in the woods. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z I found our little red hope banging the balls about on the billiard table, carefree as a scarlet tanager. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z And he seemed the only wholly normal tropic thing there—he and the wasp and the tanager and the drooping motionless palm shading the window. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z The male tanager, with his glory of jet black and flaming scarlet, is in curious contrast with his mate, with whose personal appearance, nevertheless, he seems to be abundantly satisfied. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z People who are now living can remember when scarlet tanagers were as common as robins. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z His keen eye helped them spot a summer tanager. | Bird-Watching: Flocking to a Park to Stalk Prey 2011-05-07T21:15:54Z His keen eye helped them to locate a summer tanager, as well. | A Species Settles In, Notice the Long Lenses 2011-05-05T11:15:05Z All the flycatchers forgot their usual diet and took to berrying as ardently as the tanagers themselves. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Now and then a bobolink, an oriole, or a scarlet tanager would be seen. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Thousands of tanagers have been slaughtered to be worn on the unthinking heads of vain girls and women. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z With me, the cuckoo does not arrive till June; and often the goldfinch, the king-bird, the scarlet tanager delay their coming till then. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z He chose the call of the summer tanager. | A Species Settles In, Notice the Long Lenses 2011-05-05T11:15:05Z The scarlet tanagers also blossomed like gorgeous flowers all over the wide green fields. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z Against a dark pine gleamed the fiery flash of a tanager’s plumage. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z It is a rather shabby, poorly made affair which very lively tanager youngster might easily tumble apart. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z This is the character of the orchard starlings; also of the tanagers and the various grossbeaks. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z The bird he had carried in his bosom he found to be a Southwestern tanager. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Unfortunately, not much is fruiting right now, and I haven’t seen a good fruiting tree full of tanagers, toucans, barbets and so on. Scientist at Work: Of Birds and Insects (and a Coral Snake) 2010-10-27T21:55:00Z It seemed in particular that fruit-eating birds were scarce today — not many trogons, few parrots and few tanagers. Scientist at Work: The Inventory Begins, With Birds, Rain and More Rain 2010-10-21T19:33:00Z Moreover he wears a pointed crest by which you may always know him, while the tanager, whose head is smooth, may be certainly named by his black wings and tail. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z I saw a Louisiana tanager; the pinyon jays were everywhere; ravens, true birds of the wilderness, croaked hoarsely. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open They went to the conservatory to see the tanager and presently brought it back with them, telling Miss Dent that they were going to set it free. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Canopy flocks are more variable, but the lack of tanagers has made them unimpressive here. Scientist at Work: Of Birds and Insects (and a Coral Snake) 2010-10-27T21:55:00Z He states further that the cardueline finches arise without disjunction from the tanagers. Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study If she, too, wore scarlet, I fear the tanager tribe would have disappeared years ago. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z There were red cardinal-birds; and we saw another red bird also, a summer tanager. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open But, do you know—” she hesitated as she stopped in front of the cage that held the tanager Curtis had brought for her care. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Passing through an orchard one morning, I caught a young tanager that had apparently just left the nest. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom He suggests, therefore, that the two groups of "tanager-finches" be made subfamilies of the Thraupidae and that a third subfamily be maintained for the more typical tanagers. Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study In the Southern States, one of the most familiar birds in the orange groves, orchards, and woods of pine and oak, is the summer tanager, another smooth-headed redbird, but without a black feather on him. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z There was something tropical about her, she always suggested the scarlet tanager, the jeweled dragon-fly, the pomegranate flower, or the scentless splendor of our wild marshmallow. Life on the Stage The tiny warblers fill summer trees With their exquisite lesser litanies; The tanager in his scarlet coat In the hemlock pours from a vibrant throat His canticle of the sun. Later Poems But the poor orphan was neglected, till at last a tanager, probably its own parent, was seen fluttering round the cage, and endeavoring to get in. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom On looking it up in Ridgway the stranger proved to be the Louisiana tanager, a high mountain bird. A-Birding on a Bronco Of the three hundred and fifty species of tanagers in the tropics, only two think it worth while to visit the Eastern United States and one of these frequently suffers because he starts too early. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The tall oaks are sought out by the orioles, tanagers and grosbeaks,—a brilliant and tuneful company. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road Of course I thought of our scarlet tanager, which was then just arriving. Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt She had fastened a scarlet tanager’s wing to her breast, now covered by a bright-hued cotton gown once sent her from the Fort, and for which she had discarded her dingy blanket. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn A Louisiana tanager in his coat of many colors stopped one day, and another time, when looking up for dull green vireos, my eye was startled by a flaming golden oriole. A-Birding on a Bronco Don't you wish all the members of the family were as adventurous as the scarlet tanager? Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Bullock's oriole and the Louisiana tanager are here also, with many warblers and other little mountain troubadours, most of them now busy about their nests. My First Summer in the Sierra Of course he had seen a tanager, but in the shade of the bushes the black of the wings and tail had escaped him. Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt The pewees began their pitiful cry of "Lost! lost!" a scarlet tanager sat like a sentinel on a dead branch and challenged them with a sharp single note. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. I said, hoping to arrest the tireless steps; "on that tree I saw yesterday a scarlet tanager." Upon The Tree-Tops The male tanager, in his wedding garment, is sometimes mistaken for a cardinal by people who only half see any object they look at. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Kirby, therefore, after a glance at the blue trousers and tunic of tanager scarlet which the girls had made for him, opened the door of his cell, and stepped out. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 Occasionally the scarlet tanager lights it up with his vivid color. Under the Maples For a time he gained prestige with Irene Straley, especially as he gave her bright feathers now and then, an oriole's gilded mourning, or a tanager's scarlet vesture. In a Little Town We trust that the tanager will improve as time goes on; but in any case we are largely in his debt. Birds in the Bush There sang the scarlet tanager every morning through July, gleaming among the leaves of the tallest trees, his olive-clad spouse nowhere to be seen, presumably occupied with domestic affairs. A Bird-Lover in the West It may be remarked that the arrows aforesaid were iron-tipped instead of being simply fire-hardened, and in the feathering of each a single plume of the scarlet tanager had been carefully inserted. The Doomsman To reach the tanager's nest we took that, and came, a little further on, to a big log half covered with growing fungi and laid squarely across the passage. Little Brothers of the Air Bluebirds are the little children among birds, as robins are the men, house-wrens the women, scarlet tanagers the unrealities and humming-birds the fairies. Friendship Village A tanager called excitedly, Chip-cherr, moving from tree to tree meanwhile, once to a birch in full sight, and then into the pine over my head. Birds in the Bush A plain personage she was, clad in modest, dull yellow,—the female tanager. A Bird-Lover in the West In the chipping sparrow we may notice a hint of the spring change of dress which warblers and tanagers carry to such an extreme. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Just in the middle of this exquisite bow, five feet above the ground, is the tanager's nest, well shielded by leaves. Little Brothers of the Air This second ramble quite exhausted us, without producing any prey but a tanager, far too small to afford food for so many. Adventures of a Young Naturalist A party of chimney swifts were shooting hither and thither over the trees, a single wood thrush was chanting not far away, and in another direction a tanager was rehearsing his chip-cherr with characteristic assiduity. Birds in the Bush If his eye found a feather it was on the back of the scarlet tanager or the blue jay. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" During this transition time some of our friends are hardly recognisable; we may surprise the scarlet tanager in a plumage which seems more befitting a nonpareil bunting,—a regular “Joseph’s coat.” The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Away went the tanager family, and, laughing at the absurd accident, away we went too, happy at having discovered the nest, and planning to come the next day. Little Brothers of the Air I was wakened up by the cries of the tanagers—a beautiful species of bird which lives in flocks. Adventures of a Young Naturalist I must mention also a scarlet tanager, who, all afire as he was, one day alighted in a bush of flowering dogwood, which was completely covered with its large white blossoms. Birds in the Bush There was a flash of flame against the green, but it was only a scarlet tanager that shot past, then a flash of blue, but it was only a blue jay. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" The tanagers were seen far up in the mountains, as well as among the foothills, and also at Red Cliff and Glenwood on the western side of the Divide. Birds of the Rockies With many wary approaches, he dropped at last into the scanty undergrowth, and there, a foot above the ground, we saw the young tanager. Little Brothers of the Air Close behind him came a pair of tanagers. The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest But he, plainly enough, felt that in escorting her back and forth he was doing all that ought to be expected of any well-bred, scarlet-coated tanager. Birds in the Bush Little streams flashing in silver or gold in the sunlight, flowed down to the greater rivers, and on a bush a scarlet tanager fluttered like a flash of flame. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods They saw yellow warblers flicker away, a king-bird swoop, a scarlet tanager glisten in flight. The Job An American Novel One of the prettiest memory-pictures of my delightful June on the banks of the Black River is the nest of a scarlet tanager, placed as the keystone of one of Nature's exquisite living arches. Little Brothers of the Air Now, too, she went on to extend her acquaintance by entering the cage of another neighbor, a scarlet tanager, a shy, unobtrusive fellow, who asked nothing but to be let alone. In Nesting Time In fact, it seems not unlikely that the male tanager may abstain on principle from taking any active part in constructing the nest, lest his fiery color should betray its whereabouts. Birds in the Bush His eye fell upon the tanager, and the deep, intense scarlet of its plumage gave him pleasure. The Keepers of the Trail A Story of the Great Woods A small gray bird, far less brilliant in plumage than the tanager, alighted even nearer, and poured forth a flood of song to which Henry listened without moving. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness The big dog, protector and constant companion of my fellow-student, overcome by the torment of mosquitoes, and having no curiosity about tanagers to make him endure them, had yielded to his emotions and sneezed. Little Brothers of the Air The tanager, as perhaps every one knows, is one of our most brilliant birds, bright scarlet with black wings and tail. In Nesting Time All at once the tanager broke forth in a strangely excited way, blurting out his phrase two or three times and subsiding as abruptly as he had commenced. Birds in the Bush Among the winter inhabitants of Mexico, one of the handsomest is the scarlet tanager—a small bird, being only six or seven inches in length. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The spot of flame on the glossy brown that marked the presence of the tanager was gone, and the sober brown bird ceased to sing. The Eyes of the Woods A story of the Ancient Wilderness We had been making a visit to our veery nests, and on our way back noticed that the tanager was more than usually interested in our doings. Little Brothers of the Air Hence whenever I saw a tanager in a New York bird store I brought it home, though dealers always warned me that it would not live in confinement. In Nesting Time Only fancy, I have just seen a scarlet tanager!’ and you know they haven’t, and they wouldn’t care anyway, and their mother may be dying.” Jewel Weed Among the smaller birds are bright tanagers, and a species resembling the canary. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Appropriate varieties of small birds are the blue birds for Spring; gold finches, Autumn; yellow birds or tanagers, Summer; snow birds, Winter. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration The bird, a scarlet tanager, aware of the presence of the intruders and eager to attract attention to himself and safeguard his hidden mate, flew to an exposed branch of an oak tree. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' This did not go on long, however, for very soon the tanager deliberately gave up the world of the bird-room, and insisted on remaining in his cage. In Nesting Time I stood with a tanager in one hand, a lovely manakin in the other, thinking. Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas Late in April, with other kinds a pair of scarlet tanagers and a pair of rose-breasted grosbeaks visited the trees. Bird Day; How to prepare for it Parrots and trogons, and tanagers flashed around our heads; and the great-billed and silly-looking toucans sat silent in the branches above. The Rifle Rangers But your voice, Phœbe, like the scarlet tanager's, is right as God made it. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' The tanager was always a very shy bird; he did not like to be looked at. In Nesting Time She had thrust in her hair a tiny plume of the scarlet tanager, and it lay there, like a flash of flame, against the dark brown of her soft curls. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky To the great delight of their neighbors, the house-dwellers, they built their nests, the grosbeaks in a tree near one side of the porch, the tanagers in one near the opposite side. Bird Day; How to prepare for it Justine laughed, tilting her head back to catch a last glimpse of the tanager. The Fruit of the Tree Phœbe's lips parted in pleasure as she saw the tanager again take up his place on the oak and burst into song. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' He soon learned that near the tanager he was not often molested, and he began first to frequent the perch that ran out of the cage—the doorstep in fact. In Nesting Time The scarlet tanager’s nest is on the horizontal limb of a big white oak. Some Spring Days in Iowa They became so friendly that sometimes when the boy came out upon the porch and played softly on a mouth organ, the grosbeak's silvery warble and the tanager's loud, clear voice joined him. Bird Day; How to prepare for it Winifred looked at the tanager, at the housekeeper, and round her at the happy morning. What Necessity Knows I am anxious to see whether it's a tanager or a cardinal. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Most birds quickly resent the intrusion of another into their cage, but the tanager never did. In Nesting Time We follow the scarlet tanager up a wide glen where wholesome smelling brake grows almost shoulder high. Some Spring Days in Iowa Birds that feed upon the potato beetle.—The grosbeaks and the tanagers. Bird Day; How to prepare for it There was no turning back then; even Sophia would have neglected her morning task to see a tanager! What Necessity Knows The scarlet tanager made a streak of vivid color across the sky as he flew off over the corn. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' This boundary made by the tanager was never changed, but in the rest of the cage the goldfinch made himself at home, and at once assumed the position of protector. In Nesting Time Page 467From the hemlock overhead a tanager suddenly flashed up into the air with a shrill peal of song. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 The scarlet tanager looks like a living ruby in a green tree; but—I speak bluntly—it looks like a chunk of gore on a woman's bonnet. Bird Day; How to prepare for it It was very trying, for any one knows that it is something to be able to say that you have come to close quarters with a scarlet tanager. What Necessity Knows A clanging trolley car woke me and I remembered that I had been dreaming of Phares and the tanager's nest. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' The tanager looked on all this with some interest, but expressed no more gratitude at being protected than he had resentment at being driven from the bath. In Nesting Time In May the principal birds of our neighbourhood will return—thrushes, vireos, tanagers, grosbeaks, bobolinks, orioles. Outdoor Sports and Games Fastened on sidewise, head downward, on one was a magnificent scarlet tanager, his body half concealed by folds of tulle, his fixed eye staring into vacancy. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird Winifred's eye reverted to the tanager of which, on the whole, her mind was more full. What Necessity Knows The Butterfly Man looked out, waved gaily to the passing children, who waved back a joyous response, nodded to their smiling parents, followed the flight of a tanager's sober spouse, and sniffed the air luxuriously. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man It was very low but almost continuous, and was plainly addressed to the tanager. In Nesting Time Here and there a crimson cardinal, crest lifted, sat singing deliciously on some green bough; now and then a summer tanager dropped like a live coal into the deeper jungle. The Firing Line Birds of passage—song-sparrows, tanagers, bluebirds, and orioles—even a pair of cardinals—stopped wherever they could find a tree or bush from which to pipe a friendly greeting. The Primrose Ring The scarlet tanager rose and flew from tree to tree like a darting flame, but Winifred had forgotten him. What Necessity Knows The somber garb in which he was dressed, and the brilliant colors of her apparel, afforded a contrast like that between a pheasant and a scarlet tanager. The Redemption of David Corson If the tanager went to a perch the goldfinch at once alighted on the same, about a foot away, and sidled up as near as he was allowed. In Nesting Time The glorious blues and purples, the pure whites and intense crimsons of the male chatterers are represented in the females by olive-greens or dull browns, as are the infinitely varied tints of the male tanagers. Darwinism (1889) So the golden-wing, the tanager, and the orioles would bear their colors harmoniously into any successful tulip design. Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 It is the robin, catbird, thrush, bluebird, dove, woodpecker, chickadee, phoebe, tanager and other birds of the lawn, the garden and orchard that afford good hunting for sly and savage old Thomas. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation They are rather rare, as are also the Louisiana tanager, most gorgeous of all the Tahoe birds, and the black-headed grosbeak. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter In particular a Brazilian cardinal, a bold saucy fellow with a scarlet pointed crest and a loud voice, evidently considered the tanager cage common ground, open to everybody, until the goldfinch undertook its defense. In Nesting Time The most gorgeously coloured birds known are the birds of paradise, the chatterers, the tanagers, the humming-birds, and the pheasant-tribe, including the peacocks. Darwinism (1889) In their hair they braided eagle plumes, hawk wings, or the brilliant plumage of the tanager and redbird. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 He cheerfully invades your fields, and even your lawn; and he shoots robins, bluebirds, thrushes, catbirds, grosbeaks, tanagers, orioles, woodpeckers, quail, snipe, ducks, crows, and herons. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Now and then little troops of birds of many kinds passed—wood-hewers, ant-thrushes, tanagers, flycatchers; as in the spring and fall similar troops of warblers, chickadees, and nuthatches pass through our northern woods. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Next door to the tanager lived a robin, a big, rollicking, fun-loving fellow who considered such a retiring personage fair game. In Nesting Time Bambi fluttered about like a scarlet tanager, tantalizing Jarvis with a desire to catch her in his hand and hold her still. Bambi In her loose nutria coat, seal toque, virginal cheeks unmarked by lines of village jealousies, she was as out of place on this dreary hillside as a scarlet tanager on an ice-floe. Main Street Orioles swing their pendent purses from the branches, and with the tanagers picnic on mulberries and insects. The Song of the Cardinal There were magnificent hyacinth macaws; green parrots with red splashes; toucans with varied plumage, black, white, red, yellow; green jacmars; flaming orioles and both blue and dark-red tanagers. Through the Brazilian Wilderness His pleasure was to see that the tanager went out every day, and he made it his business to enforce the regulation he had set up. In Nesting Time Ahead, that brilliant bit of color that flashed across their path was a tanager. Just David Once in a while the species was plainly distinguishable; I could make out the bobolink, tanager, Wilson's thrush, white-crown'd sparrow, and occasionally from high in the air came the notes of the plover. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy It was a bird, a beautiful specimen of the scarlet tanagers, which I remembered the early explorers had found inhabiting the Teton canyons, their brilliant plumage borrowing splendor from contrast with the gloomy surroundings. The Moon Metal Parakeets and red-headed tanagers lit in the trees over our heads. Through the Brazilian Wilderness He pranced across it in glee, making a great noise, and when the violence of his movements pushed it aside, he peered down on the tanager, who stood panting. In Nesting Time The larger girls and young women were arrayed in showy calico, and wore jaunty straw hats, gorgeously ribboned, and glowed among the blackened and blanketed old crones like scarlet tanagers in a flock of blackbirds. Travels in Alaska Under them was a neglected orange grove, and in one of the orange-trees, amid the glossy foliage, appeared my first summer tanager. A Florida Sketch-Book You surely haven’t forgotten the scarlet tanager that gave you such a surprise the day before yesterday.” The Moon Metal This tanager was a female; I can hardly imagine that the male is more brilliantly colored. Through the Brazilian Wilderness The approach of spring made a change in the tanager. In Nesting Time "Is it a cardinal, or a tanager, or something still different?" The American Child Among tanagers, as among negroes, red and yellow are esteemed a pretty good match. A Florida Sketch-Book At the time I did not notice the singularity of his remark, my attention being absorbed in contemplating the unfortunate tanager. The Moon Metal Beautiful red cardinal birds and tanagers flit about in the woods, and the flowers are lovely. Letters to His Children But the tanager grew more and more belligerent. In Nesting Time The scarlet tanager is red, too, but it has black wings, and it isn't called a redbird; and the crossbill is red, with a few white feathers, and it isn't called a redbird either. The American Child I had recognized my first tanager from afar, ten days before, his voice and theme were so like his Northern relative's; but this time I was too hasty. A Florida Sketch-Book There is pride in the song of the tanager, and vanity in that of the catbird. Locusts and Wild Honey Screaming macaws, in their gorgeous livery of blue, yellow, and scarlet, occasionally flew overhead, and tanagers and toucans were not uncommon. The Naturalist in Nicaragua So fond was she of this delicacy that she once played a saucy trick upon a scarlet tanager. In Nesting Time I know less about the tanager And its hopes and fears and aims Than a busy Broadway manager Does of James. Tobogganing on Parnassus I think it was the song of one of the honey-suckers, a red bird with black wings that in flight looked like our scarlet tanager. Time and Change And as true as I live there's a scarlet tanager on that bush! Marjorie's Vacation With me the cuckoo does not arrive till June; and often the goldfinch, the kingbird, the scarlet tanager delay their coming till then. Wake-Robin The singing of birds came from the bushes on the banks, and a sudden flash of flame told where a scarlet tanager had crossed. The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve Vireos and tanagers vied with each other in persistent singing. See America First In the woods were reddish cardinal birds, much less brilliant in plumage than the true cardinals and the scarlet tanagers; and yellow-headed titmice which had already built large domed nests. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches There were mocking-birds, the most attractive of all birds, and blue grosbeaks, and cardinals and summer redbirds, instead of scarlet tanagers, and those wonderful singers the Bewick's wrens, and Carolina wrens. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography This is the character of the orchard starlings, also the tanagers and the various grosbeaks. Wake-Robin Numbers of tanagers frequented the fruit and other trees in our garden. The Naturalist on the River Amazons The vireo sang more constantly but the notes of the tanager were more wild and possessed greater resonance of tone. See America First Then followed Horatio Turpin and Kitty Poythress; and then Erskine and his betrothed, he with fresh feathers of the hawk and the scarlet tanager gleaming in his cap above his swart, stern aquiline face. The Choir Invisible After a year, and at the beginning of the normal breeding season, "individual tanagers and bobolinks were gradually brought under normal conditions and activities," and in every case moulted from nuptial plumage to nuptial plumage. Darwin and Modern Science Summer resident The gorgeous coloring of the scarlet tanager has been its snare and destruction. Bird Neighbors In their habits they both resemble the common house- sparrow of Europe, which does not exist in South America, its place being in some measure filled by these familiar tanagers. The Naturalist on the River Amazons But the glory of the summer were the orioles and the scarlet tanagers; the orioles with their marvellous notes, and the tanagers in their scarlet golfing coats glinting here and there in the sunshine. Tattine A sudden alteration of temperature, either higher or lower, caused the birds nearly to stop feeding, and one tanager lost weight rapidly and in two weeks moulted into the olive-green winter plumage. Darwin and Modern Science |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。