| 单词 | avocet |
| 例句 | Along the way, we saw a multitude of birds — avocets, oystercatchers, white spoonbills and plenty of seagulls, in the air and expertly walking on the mud, leaving their tiny tracks. In the Netherlands, exploring the Wadden Sea — on foot 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z One day, Mariano saw “a Bonaparte’s gull mixed in with probably forty American avocets,” he said. “Richest Hill,” a Must-Listen Podcast About Butte, Montana 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s also the location of 6,000 acres of marsh, meadow, ponds and woods full of roe deer, bee orchids, avocet, reed buntings and other threatened species. In northeast England, learning about birds of prey and their high-flying ways "When I noticed this Egyptian goose flying to this small island, I immediately focused on the avocet, knowing that it was going to charge in and see off the goose." Bears, birds and kangaroos: Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z The island hosts 2,200 breeding couples of common terns, 15 breeding pairs of the rarer little terns and 250 breeding pairs of avocets. Marker Wadden, the manmade Dutch archipelago where wild birds reign supreme 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z When seasonal rains come to the lake it becomes a haven for birds such as Australian pelicans, red-necked avocets, and other water birds. Satellite Eye on Earth: November 2015 - in pictures 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Some birds are also set to thrive including the avocet and the little egret. Growing threat to England's curlews from climate change - BBC News 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z There are egrets, ibis, ducks and geese, stilts, dowitchers, and avocets; at one point, three and a half million eared grebes were counted. California Runs Dry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Cameras will be carefully positioned in and around the nests of avocets, terns, oystercatchers and lapwings, allowing constant, real-time updates as they keep watch for predators and strive to raise their young. Springwatch migrates to new location 2014-05-07T05:19:40Z Species on the marsh include marsh harriers, bitterns, avocets and spoonbills. Video: Falling star captured on camera 2013-09-14T09:09:54Z Shorebirds are a rather loosely defined group that includes familiar species like sandpipers, plovers and killdeers as well as the more exotic avocets, stilts and whimbrels. City Room: A Quiet Beauty Flying By 2013-08-30T18:30:41Z The grey heron is the collateral damage here: it joins the avocet, little grebe and ringed plover among the birds that would be endangered by a four-runway behemoth appearing off the Isle of Sheppey. BAA traffic figures back Boris Johnson's estuary airport plans 2012-02-13T11:02:19Z The boat zipped past a line of avocets, marbled godwits, and white pelicans, standing knee-deep and staring out to sea. California Runs Dry 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z I saw at a glance he was right, and jumping up, espied among the clamorous crowd of marsh-terns, avocets, stilts, pratincoles, and other birds overhead, a single pair of strangers—small, very long-necked gulls. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Dainty avocets, sandpipers and other wading birds were to be seen here and there in the shallows, while ashore the francolins were calling sharply to one another. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z The American avocet breeds from Washington southward and spends its winters from central California south. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z Extreme dates within which avocets have been recorded are April 2 to November 21. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z It is a site now padded over by deer and badgers and a few feral camels, nested on by herons and avocets, and overlooked by Spain’s massive expanses of factory-farmed strawberry fields. Swallowed By the Sea 2011-03-20T14:00:00Z What more exquisite examples of bright, spotless beauty amidst strongly contrasted surroundings than the stilts and avocets, the lovely southern herons, egrets and spoonbills, the gulls and marsh-terns? Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The web-footed birds are either long-legged, as the flamingo and avocet, or furnished with short legs. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History Stints and sandpipers whirl hither and thither, and graceful black-and-white avocets, with their singular, upturned, slender bills, and long, red-legged stilt-plovers, haunt the shallows. Tales of South Africa Ruddy sheldrakes, mallards, shoveler ducks, and teal were in even the smallest ponds and avocets with sky-blue legs and slender recurved bills ran along the shores of a lake at which we stopped for tiffin. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Other birds shot by the fowlers were mallard, teal, widgeon, whimbrells, grebes of several kinds, and the “yelping” avocet. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter A pack of avocets swept by in chattering flight: ruffs and redshanks, green sandpipers, and others of that class, with whole troops of plovers, splashed and preened in the shallows. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Common tern, knot, American white pelican, Hudsonian godwit, trumpeter swan, long-billed curlew, snowy heron, Hudsonian curlew, American avocet, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, dowitcher, passenger pigeon. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation They are eaten by the Wilson phalarope, avocet, black-necked stilt, pectoral sandpiper, killdeer, and upland plover. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation |
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