| 单词 | gallinule |
| 例句 | Those who live in or near high-rises often find birds that flew into the buildings at night, and two birds — a peregrine falcon and a common gallinule — were among the most noteworthy donations. Behind taxidermy display halls are lots of donors of (unsolicited) dead animals 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Elaine, who visited the Everglades occasionally when she lived in Miami, knows a purple gallinule when she sees one. Our Plan to Attract a Flock of Birders 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z There are more than 360 species of birds, including the great blue heron and the diminutive green variety, purple gallinules and roseate spoonbills, the white ibis and the black skimmer. To save Everglades, guardians fight time – and climate 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The fall hunting seasons for squirrel, dove, rail, snipe and gallinule in Ohio also open that day. State’s fall hunting seasons to begin next month 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z I really want to emphasise what an incredible creature a 6-foot-tall, white gallinule would be. The Enigma of Leguatia, 6-Foot-Tall Mauritian Super-Rail 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z Among the cat victims were mourning doves, blue jays, cottontail rabbits, southern flying squirrels and rarer animals, such as purple gallinules, a kind of water bird. A wildlife rehab center confirms that cats are killers 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Hunting season also begins Thursday for other migratory species, including early goose, Virginia and sora rails, common snipe and common gallinules, also known as moorhens. Early teal hunting season begins Thursday in Michigan 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z The daily bag limit for common and purple gallinules is 15 singly or in aggregate, and possession limit is 45 singly or in aggregate. Wildlife agency sets waterfowl hunting dates 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Sultan, sul′tan, n. a Mohammedan sovereign, esp. the supreme head of the Ottoman empire: a purple or hyacinthine gallinule, or porphyrio: a small white variety of the domestic hen:—fem. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Coots, swamphens, moorhens, gallinules and a great many others belong to this group. The Enigma of Leguatia, 6-Foot-Tall Mauritian Super-Rail 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z As I looked, a small crocodile rose, splashed, and sank, sending terror among the gallinules, but arousing the spur-wing jacana to a high pitch of anger. Edge of the Jungle Pelicans, with their pouched throats and scythe-like bills, stood in melancholy attitudes, and beside them were the white and scarlet ibis, and the purple gallinule. The Boy Hunters That man of foolish understanding who steals ghee has to take birth as a gallinule. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Thus, the streams are fished by herons, grebes, and kingfishers, while the rushy margins are worked by coots and gallinules, and, above the surface, reed and sedge-warblers, with other kinds, inhabit the reed-beds. Birds in Town and Village Ducks of various sorts were here in thousands, and the water-hens, or gallinules, which visited the settlements on the Swan some years ago, were plentiful. The Bushman — Life in a New Country The jacana invariably lays four eggs, and the gallinule, at this latitude, six or eight, yet only a fraction of the young had survived even to this tender age. Edge of the Jungle First he rowed me up the "creek," under promise to show me alligators, moccasins, and no lack of birds, including the especially desired purple gallinule. A Florida Sketch-Book In one place he had the good-luck to raise a flock of water birds, which he took for purple gallinule and spur-wing plover, although they were unlike any he had ever seen. The Ne'er-Do-Well He took my reproof in good part, protesting that he had had only a glimpse of the bird, and had taken it for a possible gallinule. A Florida Sketch-Book Nearly every such place contained at least one Florida gallinule; but where were the "purples," about which we kept talking,—the "royal purples," concerning whose beauty my boy was so eloquent? A Florida Sketch-Book Going back to my chair, I found that neither jacana, nor gallinules, nor herons had been disturbed by my shot. Edge of the Jungle He was loaded for gallinules, and I, being no sportsman, and never having seen an alligator before, was some shades less confident. A Florida Sketch-Book A fork-tailed kite! and purple gallinules were for the time forgotten. A Florida Sketch-Book Out of the dense vegetation of a swamp came the cries of Florida gallinules, and then, of a sudden, I caught, or seemed to catch, the sweet kurwee whistle of a Carolina rail. A Florida Sketch-Book A good many of my jaunts took me past the gallinule swamp before mentioned, and almost always I stopped and went near. A Florida Sketch-Book With them were gallinules and small green herons, and across the pink mist of lotos blossoms just beyond, three egrets drew three lines of purest white—and vanished. Edge of the Jungle The Florida gallinule is in general pretty silent, I think; but he has a noisy season; then he is indeed noisy enough. A Florida Sketch-Book It was worth while to hear the poultry cries of the gallinules if nothing more; and often several of the birds would be seen swimming about among the big white lilies and the green tussocks. A Florida Sketch-Book |
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