单词 | brown thrasher |
例句 | I stretched back in the sun and hummed the song of the brown thrasher and of Barometer, the nuthatch. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z A brown thrasher sits on a twig imitating all the birds in his area. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the small town of Donovan the robins had been wiped out, as had the grackles, starlings, and brown thrashers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Keeping a written list of the visiting birds — goldfinches, yellow warblers, brown thrashers — made him feel connected to the memory of his birdwatching father, who died 11 years ago. Here are some good things about this year 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z Granted, you and 9,999 other worms are honored guests each week at a banquet given by cardinals, wrens, nuthatches, and brown thrashers at Wing Haven Gardens and Bird Sanctuary. Beauty Takes Flight 2011-03-03T20:50:12.373Z From outside would come the resolute tapping of woodpeckers and the morning calls of gray catbirds, brown thrashers, and mockingbirds, all singing their hearts out. Father's Day, every day, with my disabled son 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Populations of American crows, tufted titmice, gray catbirds and brown thrashers dropped below normal during the cicada emergence year—and then increased the following year, after which they stabilized. Brood X Cicadas Could Cause a Bird Baby Boom 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Georgia picked the brown thrasher, a fiercely territorial bird with a repertoire of more than 1,000 song types. These State Birds May Be Forced Out of Their States as the World Warms 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z This was a brown thrasher, he told me, describing its attributes with a mix of precision and fondness — “rufous brown, speckled on the breast, yellow eye, curved beak, long tail.” How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Previous research suggests that gray catbirds and brown thrashers may also suppress West Nile transmission. When It Comes to West Nile, Robins Do It, Cardinals Don't 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z He said the understory plants cleared for fairways are important habitat for wood thrushes, brown thrashers and other birds. Proposed disc golf course ruffles feathers of birders 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Like his cousin, the catbird, the brown thrasher likes to live in bushy thickets overgrown with vines. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z It was alive with birds; the brown thrasher, the robin, the blue-jay, poured forth their music to the very top of their lungs. The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West 2011-07-12T02:00:33.027Z Not many rods from the vireos' cedar-tree was a brown thrasher's nest in a barberry bush. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z But the king of the chaparral was the great brown thrasher. A-Birding on a Bronco Here the brown thrashers hide, The chat and cat-bird chide; The blue kingfisher houses Above the stream, And here the heron drowses Lost in his dream; The vireo's flitting note Haunts all the wild remote. Weeds by the Wall Verses Do you think the brown thrasher looks any more like a cuckoo than he does like a thrush? Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z I have also heard a robin that sang to perfection the song of the brown thrasher; it had, no doubt, caught it by imitation. Ways of Nature We love the mellow notes of the woodthrush, and of the veery, the clear, rollicking outpourings of the bobolink, the musical love song of the brown thrasher, the cheerful scolding of the wren. The Meaning of Evolution I can hear a brown thrasher warbling to me how much we love you! Sunlight Patch The long-tailed brown thrashers, lovers of the undergrowth, are still more thrush-like in look, but in our classifications they hold the position of giant cousins to the wrens. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year From his restlessness alone you might know he is the cousin of the catbird and brown thrasher and is closely related to the wrens. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z But I have yet to hear of a robin building a nest like a brown thrasher, or of an oriole building a nest like a robin, or of kingfishers drilling for grubs in a tree. Ways of Nature Considering the size of the birds, their nests are quite small, not so large as those of the brown thrashers, though the cup is deeper and the architecture more compact and elaborate. Our Bird Comrades It is not a bird that skulks and hides, like the catbird, the brown thrasher, the chat, or the chewink, and its nest is not concealed with the same art as theirs. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs One day my attention was arrested by the angry notes of a pair of brown thrashers that were flitting from bush to bush along an old stone wall in a remote field. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers The brown thrasher is considerably larger than a thrush and his habits are quite different. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z In this part of the thicket the catbirds congregate, but over yonder the brown thrashers are calling to each other. Some Summer Days in Iowa It sounded very like the song of the brown thrasher, much modulated and partly uttered under its breath—a sort of flowing, rythmical melody. Our Bird Comrades Suddenly a brown thrasher breaks into a melody from the top of a wild cherry, and then it is as if a famous operatic coloratura soprano had joined the village choir. Some Spring Days in Iowa A daring brown thrasher, his wings a fair match for the ruddy-golden glow in the girl's eyes, hopped into her haunt, and twittered his counsel of courage. The Clarion In April look for the brown thrasher, catbird, wren, barn, eave and tree swallows, martins, king birds and chipping sparrows. Outdoor Sports and Games Nesting done, the brown thrasher ceased his long and brilliant solos from the treetops after the first week of July. Some Summer Days in Iowa First, and most gifted of all, were a couple of brown thrashers, whose tones were as strong and sweet as those of a silver cornet, making the echoes ring across the hollow. Our Bird Comrades "That's a red bird, and if thee listens thee can hear a brown thrasher over there in the woods." The Redemption of David Corson They could not have bought even the heap of brush back of my wood-pile, where the brown thrashers build. A Kentucky Cardinal Reading the poem one seems to hear the brown thrasher on a twig of the wild-apple tree, pouring his heart out over the thicket which his mate has just chosen for a nesting place. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Even the brown thrasher, whose ordinary performance, is so full-voiced, not to say boisterous, will sometimes soliloquize, or seem to soliloquize, in the faintest of undertones. A Florida Sketch-Book From a tree-top near the roadside a brown thrasher will sing a song of rejoicing. Friends and Helpers The moment I heard it I was reminded of our brown thrasher, though the song, or whistle, was much finer and richer in tone than that of our bird. Time and Change The two songs have about as much in common as those of the hermit thrush and the brown thrasher, or those of the song sparrow and the chipper. A Florida Sketch-Book |
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