| 单词 | corncrake |
| 例句 | And once they heard a corncrake calling as it crept among the long grass of a path verge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But he also searches for, and finds, hope – a bewildered corncrake, a verge of wildflowers. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare; Feral by George Monbiot – review 2013-06-03T07:00:04Z These grasslands also support an even more threatened species, a shy, partridge-like bird called the corncrake, which remained silent and unseen. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Rarities like the corncrake, with its distinctive rasping call, also arrive here to breed in the summer. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z In Ireland, efforts are underway to preserve the call of the corncrake — a small, shy bird related to the coot. Your Friday Briefing: Russia Sentences Brittney Griner to 9 Years 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z “Older people still talk about coming home from dances in summer nights and hearing the corncrakes calling from the fields all around them,” said Anita Donaghy, assistant head of conservation at Birdwatch Ireland. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Among those most at risk are corncrakes, turtle doves, cuckoos, skylarks and nightingales. RSPB releases birdsong charity track 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The job description, however, highlights it as an ideal location for nature lovers with bird species including corncrakes and puffins and other abundant wildlife such as otters and seals. New teacher found for tiny island school - BBC News 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Surveys for corncrakes recorded 1,289 males between May and July this year - the highest number since counts of the birds began. Best corncrake season 'in years' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z The corncrake is a bizarre bird of the , related to the more familiar and , but favouring dry land. The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z “You hear about them making special trips to places in the west where they are going to hear the corncrake again. It’s sad that many young people have never heard it.” Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In the report, Mr Housden said many landowners and their employees acted responsibly and helped in efforts to conserve species such as lapwing, corncrakes and capercaillie. Bird poisoning toll 'depressing' 2012-11-29T00:55:33Z Just as he was gloating over his pleasant scheme a queer sound was heard, like a corncrake coming nearer and nearer through a barley field. The Story of Peter Pan Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie 2012-05-22T15:16:50.277Z The corncrake's persistent note spoke rather of the hot hours that were past than of the evening air that cooled his cheek. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z As the sun finally sets towards midnight on the summer solstice, the standing stones of Callanish echo to a strange rasping sound: the repetitive, two-note call of the corncrake. The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z There, the grasses were long enough to provide cover from predators, but thin enough for the corncrakes to run through. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Before the lark his Lauds hath done And ere the corncrake's southward gone; Before the thrush good-night hath said And the young Summer's put to bed. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The corncrake is sounding his rattle in the hayfields—a veritable voice of the night is he—and not another sound is to be heard. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z The cuckoo and the early corncrake told of coming summer, and behind him the Welsh hills simmered in the first heat of the year. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z But, in the 200 years since Clare wrote those lines, the corncrake's fortunes have taken a massive downturn. The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z Though corncrakes are good fliers, and migrate each year from winter feeding grounds in Africa, their instinct, when threatened, is to run and hide. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The wild-fox lay down, with red tongue lolling idly: the stag rose from the fern, with dilated nostrils; the night-jar ceased, the corncrake ceased, the moon-wakeful thrushes made no single thrilling note. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z A score of blackbirds piped in Knockdane, and a corncrake rasped in the meadow. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z For ninety springs the corncrake’s monotonous cry had resounded in the mowing-grass. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z All birds have suffered, but the corncrake's decline began earlier and was more severe than the rest. The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z As agriculture modernized and industrial farming expanded, artificial fertilizer allowed farmers to mow their meadows earlier in the year, interfering with the corncrake’s mid- to late-summer breeding season. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Then there is the corncrake, of whose curious tricks in the mowing grass I have already written. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z From a field of young wheat hard by I heard the harsh, grating note of the corncrake. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Stormcock, nightingale, cuckoo, corncrake, woodpecker, robin redbreast, were all singing together, yet there was no discord in the concert. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z So how does the corncrake cling on in the Western Isles? The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z But in remote coastal areas like Belmullet, and a few other enclaves in England, Ireland, Scandinavia and Scotland, poor land and wet climate delayed the arrival of industrial farming, allowing corncrakes to hold out. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The grass in the meadow or home-field as it begins to grow tall in spring is soon visited by the corncrakes, who take up their residence there. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z Now and again there came, twining among the mellow notes of the water, from some far field the corncrake's brazen call, and made the gold ring stronger. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z Which is why Lee Cattermole has campaigned tirelessly for the preservation of wetlands and the return of the corncrake ever since. Hollywood knows how to show Darren Bent the love 2011-01-21T00:05:01Z This low intensity approach has allowed the corncrake to survive and thrive. The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z “We don’t reward farmers for having a corncrake on their land, we reward them for having the habitat,” Mr. Carey said. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z They were cheerful, but in a business-like matter-of-fact way, and as they promenaded twirled corncrakes, jingled tin cans, and tootled horns. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z The invisible industrious corncrake, whose persistent cry comes from nowhere and everywhere at once. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Breaking the silence of evening that crept over the outer world, a corncrake began his whirring chant. The Wonderful Visit Even so, by the 1990s the corncrake was facing oblivion as a British breeding bird, down to just 400 or so calling males. The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z But there is hope for the return of the corncrake’s call. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z It carried the buzzing of bees, the calls of corncrakes, in every tone the rich scents of the jungle, where undergrowth rots in black water—of perfumes that burn before the gods. A Bed of Roses The far-off grating sound of the corncrake can be heard; the cuckoo's tuneless note, incessant and unmusical, tires the early night. Faith and Unfaith The corncrake, a strenuous bard, discourses, The lofty cold waterfall sings A welcome to the warm pool— The talk of the rushes has come. Ancient Irish Poetry Until we can achieve a revolution in farming, to make room for wildlife as well as producing enough food for us to eat, the corncrake will always live on the margins. The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z In recent years, conservationists, government agencies and farmers have come together to try to reverse the decline in numbers of the corncrakes — and preserve the corncrake’s “kek kek” for new generations. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Like the rasp of a corncrake she heard the wheels of the barouche on the gravel. A Bed of Roses It is a favourite spot with the corncrake—almost the only place where you are nearly sure to hear him. The Hills and the Vale They walked over a damp meadow, then along a field of barley, where a corncrake rattled excitedly as if giving a signal. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 It is perhaps too early to know if this reintroduction scheme will lead to a long-term re-establishment of corncrakes in England. The corncrake's midsummer comeback 2013-06-20T23:50:56Z Efforts to rescue the corncrake in Ireland began in the 1990s and included the banning of early mowing of meadows where corncrakes might breed. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The owl sailed slowly past; the goatsucker hawked for moths about the oaks; the trout rose to the incautious flies; the corncrake babbled loudly in the long, lush meadow grass. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain On the 7th I heard a corncrake in the meadow over Thames, opposite the Promenade, a hundred yards below Messenger's Eyot. The Hills and the Vale What good was it that it was summer, that right till evening, when the corncrakes called, the larks would mount up into the light, to sing once more before nightfall. The Rainbow From somewhere across the moor we heard the melancholy cry of the corncrakes. The Master Mummer The 25 acres of Feargal Ó Cuinneagán, a veterinarian and corncrake enthusiast near Belmullet, once grew only grass, but now bristle with clumps of stinging nettles, cultivated on rotting bales of straw. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In this tight snuggery, at a time when the corncrake's nocturnal music was first heard in the meadow by the pool, five midget water-voles, naked and blind, were born. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain The return of the corncrake or landrail is quickly recognized by the noise he makes in the grass; he is the noisiest of all the spring-birds. The Hills and the Vale The voice of the corncrake, easily distinguished from that of any other bird of our fields, may be approximately reproduced by using a blunt saw against the grain on hard wood. Birds in the Calendar Phil and I always have had a hunt after the corncrakes since we read that; but we don’t get taken before the magistrates for it.” Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home “They’re a hard sell for farmers, but they are really good cover for corncrakes.” Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z And when I saw the two corncrakes I found them to be practically the same bird, though but half the size of the kili vao. The Call Of The South 1908 Our corncrake—I don't know what the usual standard may be—does ninety-eight to the minute. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 Another sees no romance in the gargling of doves, while comparatively few care for the piercing scream of the starling or the rasping note of the corncrake. Birds in the Calendar Only the sharp cry of the corncrake broke the solemnity of the night. The Northern Iron As if to back his point, a male corncrake started calling from a nettle bed nearby. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Then in the field behind, the last corncrake harshly called; a shepherd whistled on his dogs; a cart rumbled over the cobbles, making for the shed. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure But it had no effect on the corncrake. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 He heard his own heart beat loudly, and in the still night air he heard the sough of the sea, and the harsh call of the corncrake. By Berwen Banks I missed but two birds, the corncrake and the grasshopper lark, and found these another season. Nature Near London But in Western Europe, over thousands of years, the corncrake also adapted to the similar conditions that were created by traditional, low-intensity farming in grassland meadows and field margins. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Out in the fields, a corncrake raised its rasping vesper and a shepherd whistled on his dogs. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Then from the field beyond the wood I could hear the corncrakes sawing away in the yet unmown grass, and there were a great many wood-doves uttering their soft laments. The Story of Bawn To him there came an old crone, the "father and mother" of all corncrakes, who comforted him, cossetted him, and from a fund of deep experience offered him hints on voice production. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 From this roadside I have seldom heard the corncrake, and never once the grasshopper lark. Nature Near London “I remember in the 1970s, this area was full of corncrakes,” Mr. Mangan said. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z There was a corncrake rattling in the fields, and more than once they saw frogs hop out of the road as they drove by in the twilight. Old Peter's Russian Tales She told me once, in her poor, corncrake voice, that she'd never had an affair in her life, though she'd saved money. The Torch and Other Tales It is true that I had heard her voice like the low thrilling of a nightingale—following a full Handel chorus of corncrakes. The Jervaise Comedy The corncrake is speaking, a loud-voiced poet; the high lonely waterfall is singing a welcome to the warm pool, the talking of the rushes has begun. Gods and Fighting Men In corncrake habitats, farmers are asked to reverse their normal mowing practice, and to start cutting grass in the middle of their fields, and work their way out to the edge. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The choristers sing, the babies cry, the corncrakes call, the lark carols. The Duel and Other Stories Poems have been written in praise of the corncrake as a singer, but never of the cat. The Pleasures of Ignorance Then a corncrake flew up from the grass, alarmed by the hurricane and not knowing what was the matter. The Bishop and Other Stories On the field where then the rye was in flower and the corncrakes were calling, now there were cows and hobbled horses. The Darling and Other Stories Last month in Fanad, at the tip of County Donegal in the north, a farmer mowing his field uncovered a corncrake nest with 11 intact eggs. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Somewhere in the distance beyond the line a corncrake was calling. Love Even the watchman, paid to disturb the stillness of night, was silent; even the corncrake—the only wild creature of the feathered tribe that does not shun the proximity of summer visitors—was silent. The Schoolmaster She isn't going either, Matt says, but I'm thinking that you might as well try to keep a corncrake in the meadow for a whole winter, as to try to keep Ellen Douras in Aughnalee. Three Plays The skirmishers snapped at us as we came, and then away they bolted like corncrakes, their heads down, their backs rounded, and their muskets at the trail. The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales The park is also home to a small captive breeding population of corncrakes. Irish Farmers Help Save a Bird Whose Calls Used to Herald Summer 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z The corncrake uttered its clear note, and far away above a little tumulus, a sleepy kite floated, heavily flapping its wings, and no other living creature could be seen all over the steppe. Love Curiously enough I missed the corncrake's well-known call in the meadows by the river in the springtime of 1897; and not one was bagged in September by the partridge-shooters. A Cotswold Village It was like a water-meadow at home, such a place as I had often in boyhood searched for moss-cheepers' and corncrakes' eggs. Prester John And out of the silver-grey fog of darkness came sounds vague and hoarse: a corncrake not far off, sound of a train like a sigh, and distant shouts of men. Sons and Lovers Quails were in hundreds around; corncrakes were calling to one another in the thickets…. The Torrents of Spring Presently a hand-bellows foghorn jarred like a corncrake, and there rattled out of the mist a big ship literally above us. Traffics and Discoveries Then landrails or corncrakes, and last, but not least, an occasional quail, are usually included in the bag. A Cotswold Village Besides its own calls, whistles, and song, it reproduces the song of the blackbird and thrush absolutely correctly, and mimics with equal nicety the calls of the curlew, the corncrake, and the jackdaw. The Naturalist on the Thames Meantime the heat had somewhat abated; but my ill-success, or, as they say among us, my 'ill-luck,' continued, and I returned to the settlement with nothing but one corncrake and the new axle. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I "Come here, Watch," the shepherd called, and when Watch came he bent down and took a corncrake from his mouth. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs Yet by great patience and watchful skilfulness the corncrake is sometimes caught by hand. The Life of the Fields Quails were in hundreds around; corncrakes were calling to one another in the thickets. Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian I searched the Hollow from end to end, calling upon her name, but no sound reached me, save the hoot of an owl, and the far-off, dismal cry of a corncrake. The Broad Highway For a long time I did not come upon a single bird; at last a corncrake flew out of a thick clump of young oak across the wormwood springing up round it. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Only a distant corncrake broke the silence of the lonely channel, its note sounding more faintly as they left the land behind. Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell In the narrowest part of the wood between the hedge and the river a corncrake called his loudest "crake, crake," incessantly. The Life of the Fields At every turn I came on multitudes of rabbits feeding on the roadside, or on even shyer creatures—corncrakes, squirrels and snipe—close to villages where no one was awake. In Wicklow and West Kerry Pleasant to hear the corncrake by the hedge-side, or the moorhen in the water. Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn Three strange birds were eating out of the pot—a cuckoo, a corncrake and a swallow. The King of Ireland's Son An' where the stream was tricklin' by, half stifled by the grass, Heaped over thick with buttercups, I saw the corncrake pass. The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman Now and then a corncrake is caught in the same way by hand while sitting on her nest on the ground. The Life of the Fields Ah! strange were the dim, wide meadows, And strange was the cloud-strewn sky, And strange in the meadows the corncrakes, And they making cry! The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 The corncrake after awhile stopped quite suddenly with a jerk, and for quite five minutes there was silence. They and I Now he never goes across the sea at all, and do you see the corncrake? The King of Ireland's Son From the dark meadows by the brook came the cry of a corncrake, its harsh note softened by distance. A Damsel in Distress The sharp rattle of the mowing-machine disturbs the corncrake in the meadow. The Life of the Fields An old corncrake lived near to us, and the way he used to disturb all the other birds, and keep them from going to sleep, was shameful. Novel Notes And the larks trilled unceasingly, the corncrakes called to one another, and the landrail cried as though someone were really scraping at an old iron rail. The Witch and other stories He went into the house and found her making marks in the ashes of her fire while her cuckoo, her corncrake and her swallow were picking grains off the table. The King of Ireland's Son The corncrake began to call again out in the distance. A Damsel in Distress The corncrakes had ceased, all the sounds and stir of animal life had died away, the breeze had fallen. The Research Magnificent By this time the whole glade would be awake, expressing views concerning that corncrake that would have wounded a less callous nature. Novel Notes In the rye the quail would be calling, and, in the grass, the corncrake, and over them would be wheeling flocks of twittering linnets. Dead Souls I'm all alone here except for my swallow and cuckoo and corncrake. The King of Ireland's Son "Perhaps," interposed a person of neglected refinement, turning towards the maiden, "you would like to have a corncrake also, to remind you of Mr. Kong?" The Mirror of Kong Ho Save for a cry that echoes shrillFrom some lone bird disconsolate;A corncrake calling to its mate;The answer from the misty hill. Ballad of Reading Gaol "I do not know what a corncrake is like," replied the maiden with commendable dignity. The Mirror of Kong Ho |
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