单词 | dunlin |
例句 | A cloud of tiny dunlin, more compact than starlings, turned in the air with the noise of a train. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His gaze alights on a dunlin, a wading bird picking for worms in the flooded plain around the Minsmere river in Suffolk. Turned Out Nice by Marek Kohn ? review 2011-07-07T08:16:00Z Reynolds said he will always remember the call he got that first year from a biologist reporting on a flooded field filled with 5,000 small wading birds called dunlin. A new effort to save birds pinpoints in amazing detail where they fly 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z I’m gaping at thousands of western sandpipers and dunlins twisting and turning against the sky creating an undulating kaleidoscope of color. How the Bay Area Is Restoring Nature's Delicate Balance Some sandpiper groups sound like fancy Victorian musical instruments or board games: whimbrels and willets, dowitchers, dunlins, shanks, and tattlers. In honor of Pixar's adorable "Piper," here's The Verge's review of sandpipers 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z They saw cinnamon teal and hummingbirds near the coast rather than inland, and western sandpipers and dunlins were switching to kelp flies on the beach instead of insects in a flooded meadow. Birds Are Dying As Drought Ravages Avian Highways 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The birds include surf scoters, dunlins, Western sandpipers and eared grebes. Mystery goo: Scientists closer to solving deadly puzzle 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z On a recent rainy day here, thousands of soaring dunlins wheeled across the gunmetal sky in the cohesive flock choreography known as a murmuration before they set down in a soggy rice field. Paying Farmers to Welcome Birds 2014-04-14T16:12:25Z The red-backed sandpiper, or American dunlin, is one of the larger members of the genus and quite plentiful on the Coast marshes, but it is seldom seen in the interior valleys except during its migrations. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z The best way to approach them is to drive from Leenane Inn to the Deel River, due north, and then strike west over a wet bog, full of dunlins, plover, and curlew. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z He would tell of immense flocks of widgeon, of banks of brent geese, and clouds of dunlin. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z At this spring moult a special “nuptial” plumage is often assumed, as for example in many of the Limicolae, e.g. god-wits, knots, dunlin, ruff. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 2011-06-19T02:00:16.580Z Here I see Arctic tern from Antarctica, dunlin from Asia, bar-tailed godwits from Australia, yellow wagtails from Africa, and so on. Mating Bears and a Wolverine Sighting 2010-06-22T20:59:00Z The first warning was a sudden eruption from it, a flock of dunlin, a flock which then passed seawards in a regimented flight that was an alternate flash of light and a swift shadow. Waiting for Daylight The bird’s captured by net were dunlins, knots, ruffs, reeves, red-shanks, lapwings, golden plovers, curlews, godwits, etc. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter It is true that it brought down quite a wisp of dunlins, but then there was almost a cloud of them to fire at. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z A name for the dunlin, Tringa alpina, a species of sand-piper frequenting our shores and the banks of rivers in winter. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. 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 |
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