| 单词 | turnstone |
| 例句 | Ruddy turnstones called sleepily from their scattered roosts, and sandpipers whistled. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Bingo: They were ruddy turnstones, sandpipers whose tricolor markings are sometimes compared to those of a calico cat. For These Bird Flu Researchers, Work Is a Day at the Very ‘Icky’ Beach 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Alderfer takes a slightly more impressionistic approach in ink, pencil or crayon drawings, one of which depicts turnstones in profusion among oyster shells on the Eastern Shore. Review | In the galleries: Colorful shapes, dazzling drama 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z And a bird I want to add as a caveat: the ruddy turnstone. Black Birders Call Out Racism, Say Nature Should Be For Everyone 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Too big, and it’s likely not from the species that carries the most flu here, the calico-patterned ruddy turnstone. Migrating birds create flu bonanza for scientists to study 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Biologists need to be just as concerned about them before ruddy turnstones and semi-palmated sandpipers join the red knot on the brink, he said. NJ plants, animals get attention before they’re endangered 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Not any droppings would do; it had to be fresh excrement, ideally from ruddy turnstones and red knots, another sandpiper species. For These Bird Flu Researchers, Work Is a Day at the Very ‘Icky’ Beach 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Almost half of all shorebird species, such as ruddy turnstones, red knots and piping plovers, are either endangered or at risk of becoming endangered. A third of US birds 'in decline' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z A red knot, center, among ruddy turnstones and sanderlings on the Delaware Bay shore in Middle Township, N.J. Green Blog: A Shorebird, a Crab and a Call to Action 2012-03-23T17:56:19Z Down the road, he spots a better target, a crowd of ruddy turnstones with their distinctive black, white and brown plumage. Migrating birds create flu bonanza for scientists to study 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z A flock of friendly sandpipers and turnstones in wading. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z In a paper to be published in the Wader Study Group Bulletin, a team of ornithologists describe attaching geolocators to four ruddy turnstones. Birds That Migrate Thousands of Miles With Nary a Stop 2010-05-24T22:56:00Z The gulls and petrels form another association—the order Gaviæ; while the plovers, snipes, curlews, peewits, turnstones, &c., constitute the order Limicolæ. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Their nesting habits are in no wise different from those of the common turnstone. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Even now I think with pity of one particular turnstone. The Foot-path Way These busy, cheerful, sprightly little peepers are always ready to welcome to their flocks other birds—ring-necked plovers, turnstones, snipe and phalaropes. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z There were thousands of sandpipers in enormous flocks, mixed with king plovers, dunlins, and turnstones, which followed the ebb tides, and returned again in whirling clouds before the oncoming floods. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Close to us a couple of turnstones, smart little birds in brown, with bright-red legs and beaks, were busy on a heap of kelp. The Pilots of Pomona The turnstone, when surrounded by comrades belonging to more energetic species, is a rather timorous bird; but it undertakes to keep watch for the security of the commonwealth when surrounded by smaller birds. Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution |
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