单词 | winter wren |
例句 | The large swaths of park not fragmented by trails also allow space for wildlife to flourish, especially species such as winter wrens that forage in the shrubs and understory. In praise of winter buds 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The sounds included white noise, a contact call of a winter wren, or a female fairy-wren’s incubation call. Fairy-wrens, like humans, learn as embryos 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z "The winter wren is really with us during the summer too," said daddy. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z In winter wrens resort in numbers to old nests and to holes in walls for mutual warmth and shelter. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z It chirped at times so that its companions could hear it, and was answered by them, as well as by the nuthatches, a tree creeper, some sparrows, and a winter wren. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z The great distinction of the winter wren's melody is its marked rhythm and accent, which give it a martial, fife-like character. Birds in the Bush The next, straight in front, is the passage to the nest of the winter wren. Little Brothers of the Air What of the tiny winter wren which spends the zero weather with us? The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year There was some scant compensation in the presence of the winter wren one winter in the Sunflower state. Our Bird Comrades An old hemlock wood at the head waters of the Delaware is a chosen haunt of the winter wren. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs But the chief singers were the olive-backed thrushes and the winter wrens. Birds in the Bush One day, somewhat later, in the winter wren's quarter, where there were pools left by a heavy rain, we met them again. Little Brothers of the Air The day I saw the winter wren I saw two golden-crowned kinglets fly from one sycamore to another in an open field, uttering their fine call-notes. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers No more winter wrens were seen until January seventh, when one darted out of some bushes on the bank of a stream about two miles south of town. Our Bird Comrades The wild goose swam and screamed, and the winter wren caroled his bright song—loudest when there seemed least cause for rejoicing. A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. The winter wrens were less numerous than the thrushes, I think, but, like them, they sang at all hours of the day, and seemed to be well distributed throughout the woods. Birds in the Bush The brown thrush ranks high as a musician, the mockingbird leads the world, in the opinion of its lovers, and the winter wren thrills one to the heart. Little Brothers of the Air One of the events of the day was the sight of the winter wren, the first time he had been seen this winter. Some Winter Days in Iowa My next meeting with a winter wren occurred on the fifteenth of February, in the same hollow, but about an eighth of a mile nearer the river. Our Bird Comrades We saw numerous marks of both bears and deer; but no birds, save at long intervals the winter wren flitting here and there, and darting under logs and rubbish like a mouse. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs There is a piece of swampy woodland in Jefferson, New Hampshire, midway between the hotels and the railway station, which, for me, will always be associated with the song of the winter wren. Birds in the Bush From one side comes the chirp of the winter wren, from the other, low, excited calls of veeries, and nothing but absolute quiet seems necessary to capture some of the charming secrets of their lives. Little Brothers of the Air The only creatures in all God's world possessing the right to utter aloud a single syllable are the loon, far away, and the winter wren, near at hand. The Forest A query arises here: Did I see four different winter wrens during the winter, or only one in four different localities? Our Bird Comrades And in this connection I remember, and am not likely ever to forget, a winter wren who favored me with what I thought the most bewitching bit of vocalism to which I had ever listened. A Florida Sketch-Book Just then an unseen bird broke out into a song, and by the time he had finished I was saying to myself, A winter wren! Birds in the Bush We heard them singing cheerfully, their ringing melody having a certain suggestion of the winter wren's. American Big Game in Its Haunts There's the winter wren, too-saucy, inquisitive little imp!—he was here all winter, and has left us without vouchsafing a note. Nature's Serial Story That is not all about the winter wrens. Our Bird Comrades Our wren-songs, on the contrary, are gushing and lyrical, and more or less melodious,—that of the winter wren being preeminently so. Locusts and Wild Honey In the list of the lowly must be put the winter wrens also; one need never look skyward for them. Birds in the Bush The winter wren has just told me what it means. Friends and Helpers He is about as big as your thumb, and ordinary mortals are content to call him the winter wren. Nature's Serial Story My first winter in Kansas was the severest I experienced in that state; yet it was the only winter of the five I spent in Kansas that brought me the winter wren. Our Bird Comrades The more common species are the house wren, the marsh wren, the great Carolina wren, and the winter wren, the latter perhaps deriving its name from the fact that it breed in the North. Wake-Robin One of these—it is the common one, I think—ended quaintly with three or four short notes, like zip, zip, zip; while the other was not unlike a fraction of the winter wren's melody. Birds in the Bush The song of the wren interested me much, because it was not in the least like that of our house wren, but, on the contrary, like that of our winter wren. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography It may indeed have been the winter wren, but from my own observation I believe the ruby-crowned kinglet quite capable of such a performance. Wake-Robin While tramping about trying to get another view of the unconventional thrush, I frightened a winter wren from a cluster of weeds and bushes. Our Bird Comrades The winter wren is another marvelous songster, in speaking of whom it is difficult to avoid superlatives. Wake-Robin The theme is the same as the winter wren's, but the song did not seem to me to be as brilliantly musical as that of the tiny singer of the North Woods. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography |
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