| 单词 | lek |
| 例句 | When they were done, they followed us on the path, singing one of S. E. Rogie’s songs, “Nor look me bad eye, nor weigh me lek dat...” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z You can time your visit to coincide with the arrival of your favorite migrator or with the deer lek. Returned to the wild: A 3,500-acre estate outside London is ruled by nature 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z This ensures sparkling conversations when different kinds of them get together the way male birds gather at “leks” to display splendid plumage for visiting females. Militant atheism has become a religion 2013-03-25T01:00:00Z In ornithology, a lek is a pocket of forest where male birds put on curious sexual displays. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z On your own: The Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes a guide to do-it-yourself lek-watching with locations of sage-grouse leks across the state. Birders and Naturalists Ponder the Fate of the Greater Sage Grouse 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z I made a mental vow to come back in early spring next time so that I could experience the lek. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways The loud “singing” is primarily from males that gather in groups, called “leks,” where they sing to attract the best females. How to survive a plague 2013-05-14T12:11:00Z The lek where Mr. Obercian, the birding guide, takes his clients is on Bureau of Land Management land in Colorado. Birders and Naturalists Ponder the Fate of the Greater Sage Grouse 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z These wild chickens are figuratively as well as literally colorful: When the males decide to court females, they gather in an area of either bare ground or short foliage called a "booming groundor lek." EPA announces new pesticide protection measure applied to 27 animal species: Report 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z A third type of polygyny is a lek system. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z The chosen plan, for example, results in 25% fewer sage grouse leks within the fuel breaks. Wildfire fighting plan eyes 1,000 miles of new fuel breaks 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Some leks in Wyoming draw hundreds of birds. Federal auction sells leasing rights on thousands of acres of prime sage-grouse habitat 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In some species, males assemble in areas called leks, away from the flowers that they feed on. The Hummingbird as Warrior: Evolution of a Fierce and Furious Beak 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z The males are known for their strutting courtship ritual on breeding grounds called leks. Forest Service advances changes to sage grouse protections 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z The Jackson Hole News & Guide reports that park officials and volunteer members of the Upper Snake River Basin Sage Grouse Working Group monitored nine leks this spring, including seven in Grand Teton National Park. Jackson Hole sage grouse show decline 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z After spending the winter huddled in sage brush, a twiggy shrub that carpets the plains and is the backdrop to a thousand Westerns, male grouse gather on patches of open ground known as leks. The parable of the sage grouse 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “A single well is not a huge impact on a lek if it is sufficient distance away,” Christiansen said. Federal auction sells leasing rights on thousands of acres of prime sage-grouse habitat 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z In a lek, each male has a territory, and the females shop around. The Hummingbird as Warrior: Evolution of a Fierce and Furious Beak 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z A male sage grouse struts his stuff in what’s known as a lek, a group of males trying to attract females. These Animals Are Winning Valentine’s Day 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The biggest decline in male sage grouse was at the area’s largest lek where this year’s highest count was 28 male birds, compared with 76 last year. Jackson Hole sage grouse show decline 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z In fact, if you see a single frog surrounded by a bunch of serenading croakers, called a “lek,” it’s most likely a lucky male being courted by a chorus of females. These female frogs are the first of their kind to croon to their guys 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z The males are known for their strutting courtship ritual on breeding grounds called leks, and they produce a bubble-type sound from a pair of inflated air sacks on their necks. U.S. cattle grazing plan for Idaho’s Craters of the Moon monument draws criticism 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z But when biologists visited nesting sites in December, they measured what Christiansen described as "poor chick production" — a sure sign that "we are looking at a decrease in our lek counts this spring." Will Trump revamp complex plan to save endangered sage grouse? 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The lads gather in bachelor groups called leks, flapping their wings when the females arrive. A Frog Whose Babies Pop Out of Its Back and More Freaky Animals The state’s sage grouse management plan allows reopening the season if the survey shows more than 250 male sage grouse on all leks. Sage grouse hunting season to open in September 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The following spring, Kintigh said, the annual lek count showed fewer than 250 male grouse, which, according to the department’s sage grouse management plan, dictated the season be closed. South Dakota offers more tags as deer population rebounds 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Much of the answer is based on the phenomenon known as the spectator lek. The Scientific Reason Men Like Sports More Than Women 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Colorado, Utah and Wyoming want federal plans to more closely align with state grouse strategies on issues like mitigation and oil and gas leasing near sensitive grouse breeding grounds, called leks. Will Trump revamp complex plan to save endangered sage grouse? 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z “A lek is one of the greatest spectacles on the Great Plains,” said Kelly Corman of Bassett, the coordinating wildlife biologist for the Northern Prairies Land Trust and the Nebraska Game Fish and Parks biologist. Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Tracks attributed to the species resemble dinosaur prints found near the leks. Dinosaurs performed dances to woo mates, according to new evidence 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Grouse counts jumped from an average of 17 males to 25 per lek. Sage grouse surge at Jackson Hole leks 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z That's when the males puff their chests and flare their feathers in courtship displays at special areas called leks. Q&A: What is a greater sage grouse and why is the ground-dwelling bird of the West imperiled? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z But he said Colorado wants to see some changes, including allowing oil and gas development in some cases closer to leks than the federal plans allow. Will Trump revamp complex plan to save endangered sage grouse? 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z The three-note booms are designed to attract the hens to the lek. Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z That’s when the males puff their chests and flare their feathers in courtship displays at special areas called leks. Q&A: What is a sage grouse and why is the bird imperiled? 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z When male birds emerge each spring in clearings called leks, they strut and cluck and puff their strange chests. Unlikely allies are joining the quest to save the imperiled sage grouse 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The Buck Ranch is located on or near migration corridors for moose, mule deer and pronghorn and there is one sage grouse lek on the property. Lincoln County ranch preserved for ag, wildlife 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z “The males display on the leks, and the females choose which male is best looking or fittest or whatever weird thing Attwater’s prairie hens find attractive.” The Fight to Save a Prairie Chicken 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The most dominate males are located in the center of the lek with lesser males and younger birds getting the edges. Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Never mind that most males never actually attract a mate, and that many wind up tangled in vicious fights over turf in flat, grassy plains called leks that serve as a kind of stage. Sage grouse won’t get federal protection in Nevada, California 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Fortunately, not every breeding pair needs its own lek. Greater sage-grouse buffer zones may ruffle feathers in Western states 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z "When it comes to oil and gas, those have been found to immediately drive out leks if they're too close." Report: Grouse needs 3-mile buffer from drilling 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z For example, it would limit surface disturbance to 5 percent a square mile and ban activity within 0.6 miles of the leks. Frack Quietly, Please: Sage Grouse Is Nesting 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z The males are separated on the lek by previously selected or earned imaginary “boxes.” Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z It would keep development at least 1,000 yards away from a known breeding ground, or lek, and minimize noise and seasonal development during prime breading times. Wyoming, BLM reach first agreement on sage grouse habitat Even so, carving out a 3-mile radius around the species’ breeding grounds, or “leks,” could prove tricky. Greater sage-grouse buffer zones may ruffle feathers in Western states 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z He said the birds should be gathered in Wyoming in the middle of the night and flown and released onto a lek within 10 hours. Ranchers, agencies work to help sage grouse 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z “Development within six miles of a lek really hurts the bird,” said Randi Spivak, public lands program director at the Center for Biological Diversity. Frack Quietly, Please: Sage Grouse Is Nesting 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z A male prairie chicken will return to the same lek its entire life. Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z The team found that the urban tree frogs used open concrete drains along roads as lek sites — drastically different from those in their natural habitats, where they gather at ponds to warble. Urban frogs use drains as mating megaphones 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z In animals it’s called a lek, in humans it’s called a rock band, and these words basically mean the same thing. Discover the Secret of the 17-Year Cicada, But It Won t Get You Tenure 2013-05-22T20:45:02.253Z Biologists, however, say that destruction of sagebrush ecosystems, in which the sage grouse builds nests known as leks, is the direst threat to the bird. Green Blog: Ouster Sharpens Debate on the Sage Grouse 2013-02-05T23:22:46Z Ulex, ū′leks, n. a genus of shrubs of the Bean family, including the furze, gorse, or whin. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z “With dwindling pasture ground and grassland, it is unusual to see a lot of leks in this area.” Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Lection, lek′shun, n. a reading: a variety in a manuscript or book: a portion of Scripture read in divine service.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z She doesn't like Shm�lek, she says, she never liked him, she didn't want him from the very first. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z The sample indicates an abrupt inception to laying of eggs, and this may be a reflection of timing characteristic of behavior at leks, or booming grounds. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z The lek of the Capercailzie lasts from the end of March to the middle or even end of May. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z For the greater prairie chicken to select a site for a lek, it must be on higher ground with short vegetation. Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z An’ I had pity on the cratur, for her face was the size o’ a muckle pot, an’ lek nothin’ under the sun. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z A subsidy, a one-time payment, of 280 leks was provided for each child. Area Handbook for Albania But I didn't do nothin', no, and he came up to me lek a besom, and went past me same as a flood, who-o-o! The Little Manx Nation - 1891 "If all of 'em was only lek you, seh—" Uncle Billy suddenly turned and looked up at the house, his mouth open in consternation. The Littlest Rebel A hen may travel to the lek for several days before selecting a suitable suitor. Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z And for the backsliders, the "weak brethren, the outcasts—aw! let's feel for the lek, and 'keep a houl' o' their ban.'" The Bed-Book of Happiness Upon the death of a family head or his spouse, 300 leks were provided for funeral expenses. Area Handbook for Albania "A choke's a choke, ma'am," said Duncan, rising with dignity; "put for a laty to make a choke of a man's pare leks is not ta propriety!" Malcolm Morocco is not lek the rest of Africa. Captain Brassbound's Conversion The entire time on the lek, the males are marching back-and-forth in their boxes, booming, whining or cackling and quickly stomping their feet on occasion to protect its territory from the other males. Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Certain strictly monogamous species likewise hold nuptial assemblages; this seems to be the case in Scandinavia with one of the ptarmigans, and their leks last from the middle of March to the middle of May. The Descent of Man Skilled workers were paid 400 to 1,500 leks, and senior officials received up to 1,500 leks per month. Area Handbook for Albania During the following four years trade with the West and Yugoslavia increased 2-1/2 times to 160 million leks in 1968, and the share of this trade in the total turnover doubled. Area Handbook for Albania Ye are extraordinair lek an auld college friend of mine, whose face I said not ten minutes gone that I could no longer bring to mind. Captain Brassbound's Conversion To Corman’s trained eye, he did witness one nuptial bow during the group’s visit, but the female turned the poor fellow down and continued through the lek. Wynot residents travel to watch prairie chicken breed 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z The lek of the capercailzie lasts from the end of March to the middle or even end of May. The Descent of Man A rate of 7.55 leks per US$1 applies to the exchange by Communist country residents of their national currencies and to support and other noncommercial payments transferred by them from Albania to Communist states. Area Handbook for Albania Under the 1970 trade agreement the trade volume is scheduled to reach 50 million leks. Area Handbook for Albania FINANCE: Currency: The lek is standard unit; lacks solid backing. Area Handbook for Albania The basic official rate since August 10, 1965, has been 5 leks for 1 United States dollar, a rate that has no applicability in practice. Area Handbook for Albania There are two types of so-called tourist or support leks. Area Handbook for Albania Loans for housing construction and repair declined drastically from 17 million leks in 1960 to only 7 million leks in 1964. Area Handbook for Albania Following Czechoslovakia in order of importance were Poland, East Germany, and Bulgaria, with trade volumes ranging from 69 million to 53 million leks. Area Handbook for Albania Trade with Hungary and Romania amounted to about 40 million leks and 32 million leks, respectively. Area Handbook for Albania Italy continued to be the major Western trade partner, with a turnover of 66 million leks in 1968, but the largest advance was made in the trade with Yugoslavia. Area Handbook for Albania In 1967, for example, a typical head of family worker earned about 7,200 leks per year. Area Handbook for Albania The excess of exports over imports during this period totaled about 65 million leks. Area Handbook for Albania Devalued in August 1965 by exchanging 1 new lek for 10 old leks. Area Handbook for Albania |
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