| 单词 | cliff swallow |
| 例句 | Designed by Texas artist Margie Crisp, the poster features cliff swallows flying over the Colorado River. Laura Bush announces Texas Book Festival lineup 2012-09-12T21:49:09Z The famous cliff swallows of Mission San Juan Capistrano are moving up in the world. Capistrano Swallows Start Country Club Life 2010-06-07T17:17:00Z The mouth of the cave is “guarded” by the nests of cliff swallows, who dart above the river collecting insects to feed their young. Cave-In-Rock has evolved from pirate hideout to picnic spot 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z The wings of cliff swallows are becoming shorter, enabling them to avoid being killed by cars. Humans causing shrinking of nature as larger animals die off 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Brown’s research into cliff swallows has shown similar shifts in body shape and even behavior. Cold snap makes lizards evolve in just a few months 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z In 2012, the mission enlisted Charles Brown, a Tulsa University professor and ornithologist who began broadcasting tape-recorded calls of cliff swallows at the mission in hopes of attracting nesters. Swallows at San Juan Capistrano were driven away by development. But the birds are slowly coming back 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Four birds have been elusive: the hairy woodpecker, bank swallow, cliff swallow and northern rough-winged swallow. Idaho’s Treasure Valley is a paradise for birders 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z Canada geese, cliff swallows, a snowy egret, cedar waxwings, mallards, ruddy ducks, coots, black phoebes and grackles swoop and splash with abandon. Bird L.A. Day to showcase Los Angeles County's avian abundance 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The cliff swallow, as its name suggests, likes to build its hardened-mud nests on cliff faces. Evolution: Road-kill stew 2013-03-21T16:02:17Z I'm happy as a cliff swallow on my little shelf. The Blue Ghost Mystery “We feel like new mothers. It’s ridiculous we’re so excited,” Lawrence Adams said in a Facebook Live video from the Great Stone Church, where there is a nest of cliff swallows. Swallows at San Juan Capistrano were driven away by development. But the birds are slowly coming back 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Take the cliff swallow, for instance; it has largely left the cliffs for the eaves of our buildings. Ways of Nature The old nest appeared to be in perfect condition, but there was evidently no thought with the birds of using it again, as the robins sometimes do, and as bluebirds and cliff swallows always do. Under the Maples The rock nuthatch is as expert a mixer of mortar as the well-known cliff swallows of our own country, and his adobe dwellings bear a close resemblance to theirs. Our Bird Comrades It was the one hundredth anniversary of the year when a man named Long visited cliff swallows among the Rocky Mountains. Bird Stories The swallows that traditionally return to the city are cliff swallows, which have flat tails, but much of the swallows imagery in San Juan Capistrano show fork tails, which belong to the barn swallow. Swallows at San Juan Capistrano were driven away by development. But the birds are slowly coming back 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The cliff swallow will stick her mud nest under the eaves of a barn where the boards are planed so smooth that the nest sooner or later is bound to fall. Ways of Nature The cliff swallow seems less a child of the sky and sun, probably because its sheen and glow are less, and its shape and motions less arrowy. Under the Maples The cliff swallows dipped almost to the grass; and the flowers were hanging their heads in miniature umbrellas. The Freebooters of the Wilderness Of course they found it as all cliff swallows must, for cliff-hunting is a part of their springtime work. Bird Stories They are solitary birds who nest in walls and crevices, Brown said, but their presence could have attracted the mission’s traditional cliff swallows. Swallows at San Juan Capistrano were driven away by development. But the birds are slowly coming back 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But if an oriole should build a nest like a robin, or a robin build like a cliff swallow, that would be a departure from instinct to take note of. Ways of Nature The white-bellied, or tree swallow, nests only in the North, and by far the greater number of cliff swallows nest in the North and West. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation The cliff swallow and the barn swallow always reoccupy their old nests, when they are found intact; so do some other birds. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton Now Eve and Petro were gone, and no more sketches could be made near enough to show how little cliff swallows looked in their nest. Bird Stories Nevertheless, we will go on, like those Chinese cliff swallows, feathering our nests with the froth, which may one day be bread of life to such as dwell by the sea-shore. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The barn swallow is heard first, followed in a day or two by the squeaking of the cliff swallow. Wake-Robin While some eat them only sparingly others eat them freely, and no fewer than forty-seven adult weevils have been found in the stomach of a single cliff swallow. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation But those of our swallows that correspond to the British species, the barn swallow, the cliff swallow, and the bank swallow, subsist upon very small insects. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton |
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