| 单词 | grackle |
| 例句 | They had their own words for things, a jargon of obscure origin: for reasons even they had forgotten, they referred to butter as cheese; they called the grackles that perched in the treetops icklebirds. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The grackles seemed to study what they had done and decided there was another ingredient, or perhaps a further dynamic that threatened to upset the order. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was too clearly a waste, and the grackles set out at once to remedy the situation. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And everybody ran everywhere, yelling and screaming as the bees continued their attack, and the grackles—joined by other birds—kept trying to herd them. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z No gulls or grackles, no birds at all, not even a parrot. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In the apple groves at the edge of town, flocks of grackles settled into the branches for the night, squawking. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The grackles became furious because traffic to and from the vehicles wasn’t moving right, and so they lined up to begin dive-bombing just about everybody. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z These birds were scraggly-looking black birds—we used to call them “grackles.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “There’s a disconnect between the house that’s built and the birds,” Mr. Marshall said of the crow and grackle. Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z A recurrent image of grackles lined up on a wire as if on the lookout haunts “Two Step,” a creepy indie thriller set in the seedier environs of Austin, Tex. Review: ‘Two Step’ Scuffles Around With Petty Criminals 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Daily he was out amid the moss and grackles and the zucchini vines and the roadkill. Adding Up a Prolific Poet’s Charming Weather Reports 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z The crow and the grackle in the “Black and part Black” pictures are particularly nuanced. Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z The grackles chirp and warble in the bare trees overhead. Work Songs of the Cowboy Poets 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z When Scarlett, a red-shouldered hawk, took off into the sky, she was immediately harassed by Bronx grackles that resented her invading their turf. Getting Personal With Raptors and Cockatoos at the Bronx Zoo 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The cardinal and grosbeak are both flying in different directions, giving them a sense of being at cross purposes with the grackle. Kerry James Marshall’s Black Birds Take Flight in a New Series 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z Like the Puerto Rican long-nosed bat or the slender-billed grackle, Ms. Anderson seemed to warn, humans as a species are doomed. Kronos Quartet Plays Laurie Anderson’s ‘Landfall’ at BAM 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Researchers investigating the great-tailed grackle, a bird that has been establishing new populations across North America in the past few decades, reveal that behavior might play a key role in their success. Behavior is the secret to success for a range expansion 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z There are the sleek black grackles that attack the birds and destroy their nests, as well as constant construction projects that replace flower gardens with concrete. A woman in Mexico City heals hummingbirds, and gets healing in return 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Even the common birds around here, like the grackles and house sparrows — they’re so fun to watch. How to Start Birding 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Light blue sloping streaks, lower left and lower middle, rising above the cormorants’ calls depict the calls of the great-tailed grackle. What does a hoot look like? What about a croak? Or a howl? Bruce said he doesn’t have much love for the grackles, starlings and blackbirds that vacuum up all the seed he puts out in the winter. Perspective | Some people are irritated by the weirdest things. 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z They compared the rapidly expanding great-tailed grackle with their closest relative, the boat-tailed grackle, who are not rapidly expanding their range. Behavior is the secret to success for a range expansion 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Nearby, a cuckoo sang perched on the branches of a juniper tree, and two Tristram’s grackles cried noisily, looking for food. In Jordan, a quest for the country’s resilient national flower 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z In the video, the young grackle takes a few wobbly steps along a sidewalk, pauses and then wobbles some more. Perspective | Birds are going blind in the Washington region, and wildlife experts don’t know why 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z The grackles are a federally protected migratory bird species, and the city is legally prohibited from moving or destroying their active nests. Miami Beach pays falcon handler to keep birds from attacking 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Forest Service, found that populations of red-bellied woodpeckers, brown-headed cowbirds, blue jays and common grackles increased significantly one to three years after cicada emergences and that their populations then dropped back down to normal. Brood X Cicadas Could Cause a Bird Baby Boom 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z For example, grackles on the edge might be successful because they keep trying new solutions, rather than giving up quickly or persisting in trying the same solution over and over again. Behavior is the secret to success for a range expansion 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z From gulls to grouse to grackles, more than 10,000 bird species live on this planet. Hundreds of new genomes help fill the bird ‘tree of life’ 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z In March, a man was arrested and accused of incinerating a statue of a grackle that stood outside the building, burning the art installation to the ground. Austin City Hall vandalized as Texas readies for slow reboot 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Some 90% of the total loss came from just 12 bird families and 19 widespread bird species such as the dark-eyed junco, common grackle and house sparrows. Bird numbers plunge in U.S. and Canada with people to blame 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z On my last day in Austin, while walking through a park, I encountered a common grackle hunting for insects in the grass. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z "Discovering how great-tailed grackles solve challenges differently from boat-tailed grackles and other species could reveal ways to help declining species adapt to the changes in their environment," says Logan. Behavior is the secret to success for a range expansion 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z He put off going back to his room until the black grackle birds began to shriek, signaling that the sun was setting and the thugs would soon come out. How a Crackdown on MS-13 Caught Up Innocent High School Students 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z There are typo-prone words like “Fujiyama” on Page 29, “querulous grackle” on Page 34 and “steatopygy” on Page 24, which, two lines later, McCarthy explains is “excessive development of the rump.” Typing a Novel About Vassar, Word for Word, as Art 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Great-tailed grackles, for instance, belong to the same family as blackbirds and orioles—a group not often considered particularly smart. Why Ravens and Crows Are Earth’s Smartest Birds 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Over the years nonnative visitors have included the mourning gecko, domestic ducks, cattle egrets, parakeets, peafowls and grackles. Could Genetic Engineering Save the Galápagos? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z The outside was covered in birds: a grackle, a cardinal and a half-dozen sparrows. Perspective | ‘The Taking of Bird Feeder 123’: The new heist film starring an all-squirrel cast 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The grackle sat atop a chain-link fence, gazing at the empty bird feeder. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Walking through the Locust Grove, he spied a tufted titmouse, and from the ramparts of Belvedere Castle he spotted through his binoculars a common grackle and a palm warbler. Rare Find in New York: A Teenage Birder 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Yet when presented with classic tests given to crows and ravens, great-tailed grackles passed with flying colors. Why Ravens and Crows Are Earth’s Smartest Birds 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z City officials have sent the dead grackles, which are a type of songbird that travels in flocks, to Tufts University to help determine the cause of death. Dozens of birds fall from sky in Boston, dead from unknown cause 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z City officials say 47 grackles were found Thursday in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood. Dozens of birds fall from sky; officials want to know why 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z “Well, what is he then?” said the grackle. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Barbados bullfinches and grackles join a growing list of animals that demonstrate complex problem-solving skills, a new study says. Brainy Birds Know How to Reel in Food With String What’s more, each grackle approached the puzzle in a different way, demonstrating individual styles of thinking—a quality they share with us humans. Why Ravens and Crows Are Earth’s Smartest Birds 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z A total of 47 grackles rained down upon the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston on Thursday. Dozens of birds fall from sky in Boston, dead from unknown cause 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Santa Barbara, wanted to see if the grackles were as innovative as they were flexible. The Grackle’s Secret to Success 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “Get a branch, you two,” said the grackle. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Our urbanized environments favor bird species that are flexible in their eating and foraging habits, and willing to do bold, innovative things, like blackbirds or grackles or sparrows. Here's Why 'Birdbrain' Should Be a Compliment A bird not previously known to be brainy, the great-tailed grackle, is extremely nimble at solving new puzzles, a new study shows. Watch Clever Birds Solve a Challenge From Aesop's Fables 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z An officer found a grackle stuck in a tree and entangled by string. D.C. Animal Watch 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The great-tailed grackles did not show a capacity for innovation, despite their flexibility. The Grackle’s Secret to Success 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The grackle looked over to see a goldfinch perched atop a patio chair. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Sooner than later this will be grackle country. The Verge Review of Animals: the great-tailed grackle 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z One, inspired by Aesop’s fables, teased grackles with food floating on water just outside of the bird’s reach, forcing the birds to throw large pebbles into the container to raise the water level. Watch Clever Birds Solve a Challenge From Aesop's Fables 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Each evening in late summer, numerous purple martins and a lesser number of grackles and starlings swirl around the trees located along a street at the Nebraska Medical Center to eventually settle for the night. Swarm of birds in Omaha draws in spectators 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The grackles are doing pretty well without it. The Grackle’s Secret to Success 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z He was irritated — grackles always are — and he didn’t care who knew it. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z There's an argument to be made that we already are one nation under grackle. The Verge Review of Animals: the great-tailed grackle 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z When presented with puzzles that contain food as a prize, grackles deploy different learning strategies to solve the problem. Watch Clever Birds Solve a Challenge From Aesop's Fables 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z 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 birds are also quite happy in urban areas, like Santa Barbara, Calif., where Corina J. Logan captured and later released some grackle for recent experiments. The Grackle’s Secret to Success 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The grackle erupted in a stream of gravelly invective. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Like a true Manhattan bête noire, grackle got its own Gawker kill-piece. The Verge Review of Animals: the great-tailed grackle 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z The grackles sailed through the problems, successfully finding the food—but then Logan threw the birds two curveballs. Watch Clever Birds Solve a Challenge From Aesop's Fables 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Senate, once the perch of eagles, has begun to resemble an aviary of grackles. Inexcusable wackiness in the Senate 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Great-tailed grackles first caught the attention of Dr. Logan, now at Cambridge University, in 2004 when she was doing undergraduate research in Costa Rica. The Grackle’s Secret to Success 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z “Oh, and God forbid you should lose your girlish figure,” said the grackle. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z And like the great Bono himself, the grackle measures its legitimacy by its volume. The Verge Review of Animals: the great-tailed grackle 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z But surprisingly, an individual grackle’s nimbleness didn’t have much bearing on their problem-solving skill or speed, implying that behavioral flexibility is an entirely separate skill. Watch Clever Birds Solve a Challenge From Aesop's Fables 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z They even hired a bird consultant to devise ways of keeping grackles from nesting in the openings of the veil. San Antonio’s Municipal Auditorium reborn 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z People who work around the airport reported seeing grackles and pigeons fall to the ground and spin around as they died. United defends bird kill at Houston airport 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z “Suet!” screamed a large bird as it flashed past the grackle and goldfinch. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Love, hate, fear, courage, joy, sadness, and anger: the grackle knows them all, which makes it such an empathic bird. The Verge Review of Animals: the great-tailed grackle 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z Logan, who conducted the research while at the University of California, Santa Barbara, first encountered grackles in Costa Rica, part of the birds’ native range. Watch Clever Birds Solve a Challenge From Aesop's Fables 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z Flocks of blackbirds and grackle are moving through. City Room: New York Today: Dawn of Spring 2014-03-20T10:00:10Z “We used to never get an emergence of the common grackle in the winter,” Mr. DiCostanzo said. Green Blog: The Hummingbird on West 81st Street 2012-03-26T11:26:06Z “I don’t mind telling you, that guy looks freaky,” said the grackle. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Empathy is perhaps why the grackle feels the need to approach humans with the aggression of a petulant and hungry child. The Verge Review of Animals: the great-tailed grackle 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z They often fairly hum with the varied notes of the red-winged blackbird, the rusty grackle, and our American robin, while whistling plovers are seen upon the mud-spits, snapping up the choicest of the snails. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z With almost sinister significance a sleek bronze grackle, plump and round, his eyes standing out with fatness, emerged leisurely from among the currant bushes and gobbled up a worm. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z “Now, there’s flocks of grackles around Central Park all winter.” Green Blog: The Hummingbird on West 81st Street 2012-03-26T11:26:06Z “Every bird for himself!” the grackle screamed as the feathered hordes descended and starting pecking at the holes. Perspective | On a wing and a prayer: What do backyard birds talk about? 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z And so I thank the grackle on this day for its benevolence in sparing the heads of myself and loved ones from its bottomless bottom. The Verge Review of Animals: the great-tailed grackle 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z The bobolink is a rollicking, jolly fellow; the grackle is solemn, even morose. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z There is also Brewer’s or the blue-headed grackle, S. cyanocephalus, which has a more western range, not occurring to the eastward of Kansas and Minnesota. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z The plumage of this grackle has iridescent bars. Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes 2011-10-14T02:00:28.840Z And the grackle moans High above the pot, He is sick with herbs ... A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle 2011-07-25T02:00:12.380Z You are unprepared to do battle with the great-tailed grackle, my friend. The Verge Review of Animals: the great-tailed grackle 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z You might mistake them for grackles in the spring, but never for male red-wings then with their bright epaulettes. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z In Murray County, Kentucky, several hundred grackles, red-winged blackbirds and starlings were found within several blocks near Murray State University last week. Arkansas bird deaths blamed on fireworks 2011-01-06T22:14:28Z In Murray County, Kentucky, several hundred grackles, red-winged blackbirds and starlings were found within several blocks near Murray State University last week, said Mark Marraccini, spokesman for the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources. Arkansas bird deaths blamed on fireworks, more cases found 2011-01-06T17:37:03Z Poets to men a curious sight afford; Still they will sing, though all around are bored; But this wise grackle does a kinder thing; Silent he's bored, while all around him sing! A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle 2011-07-25T02:00:12.380Z King-birds chased the big grackles and the numerous small fish-crows—not so very much bigger than the grackles—which uttered queer, hoarse croakings. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open Most of the males are dressed quite differently from their mates, although the female grackles are merely duller. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z So he talked, and Hertha, looking out over the lake to the tall trees, watched the purple grackles flying back and forth and wished that she did not have to decide so many things. The Shadow Within these limits flourish the pine and the palm, the wheat and the cane, the grackle and the skylark, the mountain wolf and the gazelle. The Bible Story And dead with me were all the improper things I'd got out of the servants about their employers Bringing in the laundry; But the grackle sings on. A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle 2011-07-25T02:00:12.380Z Great piles of cloud full of wind drag frozen shadows across us, and through them flying low, black grackles. Rosinante to the Road Again At Four O'Clock in the Morning 95 Purple grackle. A Bird-Lover in the West And through the outcry of the robins, the dry cackle of the purple grackles, and the cat-bird’s whine floated earthward the melody of the golden orioles. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories Already they are invading the haunts of our grackles and redwings. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Green grackle, I remember now, Back in the lost days, back in the eighties The cat ate you. A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle 2011-07-25T02:00:12.380Z The western larks do not utter alarums of that kind, but a harsh "chack" instead, very similar to the call of the grackles. Birds of the Rockies The most destructive pest with which I have had to contend has been the large black-bird or purple grackle. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 The man's glance rested upon the close-cropped lawn where the grackles and robins were industriously picking up their evening meal. Prairie Flowers In the early spring the great flocks of grackles and redwings return, among the first to arrive as they were the last to leave for the South. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year I bend and watch the grackles billing, And fight with tears as I float by; O be a fowl for my heart's filling! A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle 2011-07-25T02:00:12.380Z Magpie and Western Robins "They were hot on his trail" The nests are set in low bushes and even on the ground, while those of the grackles are built in trees and sometimes in cavities. Birds of the Rockies Magpies, grackles, cat birds, and many other of the winged tribe, appeared in considerable numbers among the trees, or disporting themselves on the lake or river. The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America Flocks of grackles spend their days in the cornfields which run down to the creek bottom and their nights amid the wild rice and the rushes and willows in the swamp. Some Summer Days in Iowa Dark hordes of clacking grackles pass 250 by, scores of red-winged blackbirds and cowbirds mingle amicably together, both of dark hue but of such unlike matrimonial habits. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year So I threw a stone at the grackle And my throbbing heart had rest. A Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary american poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle 2011-07-25T02:00:12.380Z The grackle is a tame and familiar bird, and will sometimes build its nest close to the habitation of man. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 And from every shrub and tree came the mildly unpleasant calling of the grackle, and the blackbirds along the lagoon answered with their own unmusical "Co-ca-chee!—Co-ca-chee-e!" The Firing Line This huge nest of the fish-hawks was more than a nest; it was a castle in very truth, in the sheltering crevices of whose uneven walls a small community of purple grackles lived. Roof and Meadow In the name of mystery, who is there in South Carolina who desires to kill grackles? Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation There are flocks of blackbirds, grackles, and crows. The Song of the Cardinal The third warm day, and, behold, all the principal performers come rushing in,—song sparrows, cow blackbirds, grackles, the meadowlark, cedar-birds, the phbe-bird, and, hark! what bird laughter was that? the robins, hurrah! the robins! The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton For at least half an hour the old mill was forgotten, while I chased the grackle about, as he flew hither and thither, sometimes with a loggerhead shrike in furious pursuit. A Florida Sketch-Book The purple grackles are a garrulous, gossipy set, as every one knows. Roof and Meadow If the purple grackle does not like the sunflower seeds in my garden, lo! he is up and away across the Sound to Oyster Bay, Long Island, where his luck may be better. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations The plumage of this grackle has iridescent bars. Bird Neighbors A flock of grackles settled in a tall cypress, and for a time made the place loud. A Florida Sketch-Book Noisy boat-tailed grackles, or "jackdaws," were plentiful about the lakeside, monstrously long in the tail, and almost as large as the fish crows, which were often there with them. A Florida Sketch-Book |
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