单词 | ouzel |
例句 | Crossing creeks, Patla suggested keeping close watch for American dippers, also known as water ouzels, and sure enough, they spotted several. People, birds meet for annual Christmas tally 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Among birds particularly interesting because of curious and unusual habits are the broadtailed hummingbird, water ouzel, campbird, nuthatch, nighthawk, and the ptarmigan, pipit, and rosy finch of the high peaks. Rocky Mountain [Colorado] National Park 2011-11-05T02:00:11.333Z It is totally impossible to follow our author through any thing like his range of subjects, extending from the hart to the seal and otter, from the eagle and wild swan to the ouzel. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z This gorge is the home of the water ouzel, which is often seen flying back and forth in the spray. Glacier National Park [Montana] 2011-06-21T02:00:29.217Z Meanwhile, a research programme radio-tagging 16 ring ouzel chicks lost almost half of its subjects due to bad weather. Wild bird breeding hit by storm 2011-05-28T15:34:26Z The ouzel and the kingfisher start from under one’s feet, and bright fish move out lazily from their sunny bay into the deeper pool. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Here I find the little water ouzel as much at home as any linnet in a leafy grove, seeming to take the greater delight the more boisterous the stream. My First Summer in the Sierra The ouzel is akin to the thrushes, and yet it lives along and in the water. Ways of Nature Our ouzel was quietly feeding on the edge of the brook, when Harriet said good-bye as our ponies started up the trail. Wild Life on the Rockies Down that sheer rock, perhaps into the water at its foot, had been the first flight of the ouzel baby. A Bird-Lover in the West “Still, since you have mentioned the drawings, I’d like your opinion about this ouzel.” The Long Portage As he rocked he watched the water ouzel teetering on a rock in the river, joyously shaking from its back the spray which deluged it at intervals. The Man from the Bitter Roots The ouzels proved no exception to the rule. Birds of the Indian Hills The ouzel, too, is self-poised, indifferent to all the world but his brook, and 159 showing an appreciation for water greater, I think, than that of any other landsman. Wild Life on the Rockies The movement was "dipping," of course, and he was the dipper, or ouzel baby, that had been cradled in that fountain-dashed nest by the fall. A Bird-Lover in the West Although they were the first of the kind that I had ever seen alive, I at once recognized the feathered visitors to be water ouzels. The Black Wolf Pack Later, he was to know this little slate-colored bird as the water ouzel, a bird that was neither wader nor swimmer, yet took his subsistence from the foam and spray. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story The grey-winged ouzel is a near relative of the English blackbird. Birds of the Indian Hills I had told Harriet that ouzels lived 101 by this brook; she was eager to see one, and we stopped at a promising place by the brook to watch. Wild Life on the Rockies One American bird, and one only, chooses perpetual dampness for his environment,—the American dipper, or water ouzel. A Bird-Lover in the West Two or three times, there was a vague rustle in the leaves that she couldn't localize—water ouzel in moss covert, or hawk babies in hiding, or—or what? The Freebooters of the Wilderness Some birds belong more properly to America, such as the Canada woodcock and the water ouzel; and there are several birds common to the east and west coasts of the Pacific. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life The nesting operations of this species are described in the essay near the end of Part I. Two other species allied to the grey-winged ouzel demand our attention. Birds of the Indian Hills On the way down she said good-bye to the little trees at timber-line, the squirrels, and the ouzel. Wild Life on the Rockies During the time I had been so absorbed in my delightful study of domestic life in the ouzel family, the other interesting resident of the cañon—the elusive cañon wren—had been forgotten. A Bird-Lover in the West Who can hear the wild song of the ouzel and not feel an answering thrill? The California Birthday Book Sir," said she, speaking, as he did, in the guttural Gaelic tongue, "come, I beseech you, to the help of two poor ouzels, whose nest is far in under the roots of yonder birch tree. The Thirsty Sword Many ouzels' nests are placed on the stumps of pollard trees, and in such cases the shoots which grow out of the stump often serve to hide the nest from view. Birds of the Indian Hills There is much in the life of the ouzel that is refreshing and inspiring. Wild Life on the Rockies Water ouzel, or American dipper: baby, 80, 85. cry, 79. "dipping," 80. feats in the water, 83. manners, 80, 81. nest, 77. song, 79, 81. the mother, 82. A Bird-Lover in the West And all the fields thereof, Where daffodils flaunt everywhere And ouzels chant of love,— Lest we attain the Middle-Land, Whence clouded well-springs rise, And vipers from a slimy strand Lift glittering cold eyes. Chivalry "It was a stoat that harried an ouzel's nest and slew the birds," replied Kenric. The Thirsty Sword The young ouzels kept very still; occasionally one of them would half raise its head. Birds of the Indian Hills One bird, the ouzel, loves this gorge and flies through it merrily, or cheerily, rather, stopping to sing on foam-washed bosses where other birds could find no rest for their feet. The Yosemite Another bird I love among the Alps is the dipper or water ouzel. Ski-running But the love-songs of the ouzels and the love-looks of the daisies gradually reassure us, and manifest the warm fountain humanity that pervades the coldest and most solitary of them all. The Mountains of California But Ailsa was again weeping over the fate of her water ouzels and did not answer him. The Thirsty Sword The rain put a final end to my observations on that nest, as I had to leave Naini Tal on the following day—an event which caused more sorrow to me than to the ouzels! Birds of the Indian Hills The blessed ouzels have built their mossy huts and are now singing their best songs with the streams. The Yosemite "Nay, then, he must be a black ouzel, indeed!—Does he understand languages?" The Surgeon's Daughter I found no great difficulty, however, in making my way to a certain ripple on the river where one of my ouzels lived. The Mountains of California "To hunt coneys, and to hawk at ouzels!" said the Regent, smiling; "for such are the sports of ladies and their followers." The Abbot The merry lark her matins sings aloft; The thrush replies; the mavis descant plays; The ouzel shrills; the ruddock warbles soft; So goodly all agree, with sweet consent, To this day's merriment. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Their cowering, joyless endurance offered striking contrasts to the spontaneous, irrepressible gladness of the ouzel, who could no more help giving out sweet song than a rose sweet fragrance. The Yosemite Store of ouzel dainties choice To those white swinging bars it brings; And with a low consoling voice It talks between its fluttering wings. Poems — Volume 1 The ouzels pass it by, and so do the ducks; they could hardly get into it if they would, without plumping straight down inside the circling trees. The Mountains of California I have never yet met ducks in any of the lakes of this kind, but the ouzel is never wanting where the feeding-streams are perennial. The Mountains of California Yet daily with its flattering voice, Talking amid its fluttering wings, Store of ouzel dainties choice With busy bill the poor bird brings. Poems — Volume 1 It was impossible to go very far without the aid of snow-shoes, but I found no great difficulty in making my way to a part of the river where one of my ouzels lived. The Yosemite Tho' the nightingale broods—'sweet-chuck-sweet' - And the ouzel flutes so chill, Tho' the throstle gives but one shrilly trill To the nightingale's 'sweet-sweet.' Poems — Volume 1 |
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