| 单词 | secretary bird |
| 例句 | In the bird kingdom, the Andean condor, secretary bird, bateleur and martial eagle are now at high risk of extinction. Extinction: Conservation success set against 31 lost species 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z Lead author of the study, physiologist Dr Steve Portugal, said he often describes the secretary birds as "ninja eagles on stilts". 'Ninja eagle' kicks like a mule - BBC News 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Picture a sea of chest-high elephant grass, swirling brown rivers, ribbons of papyrus and the occasional black-and-white secretary bird swooping elegantly through rose-colored skies. Africa’s Elephants Are Being Slaughtered in Poaching Frenzy 2012-09-04T02:48:18Z Well," continued daddy, "during the race all the secretary birds shrieked in their cackling voices: 'Go it; go it! Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z Monkeys grin and gibber at him among the branches, and a large secretary bird floats away from its nest of sticks hard by. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z "Suppose, for example, that a great flight of secretary birds had arrived; they might have cleared the island of rattlesnakes." The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z A team from the Royal Veterinary College and Royal Holloway, University of London, studied a male secretary bird housed at the Hawk Conservancy Trust in Hampshire. 'Ninja eagle' kicks like a mule - BBC News 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z A secretary bird stalking along looks as big as a man, and an ostrich attains the altitude of a church-steeple. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z The secretary birds had planned to have some field races," began daddy, "and the afternoon of the races had come. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z Flamingo, parrots, and tall secretary birds followed the giant gastornis, the ancestor of wading birds and ostriches, which stood ten feet high, but had wings as small and useless as the auk of later times. Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place In this order is included the long-legged secretary bird, which looks like a cross between a hawk and heron. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Adjutant, the nickname of the solemn Indian stork, is clearly due to Mr Atkins, and the secretary bird is so named because some of his head feathers suggest a quill pen behind an ear. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The secretary bird is so called on account of that crest at the back of his head, which looks something like a pen stuck behind the ear. In the Wilds of Africa You know, the secretary birds have very, very long thin legs. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z Here they saw large numbers of secretary birds and bustards and maramots and springbok antelope. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World He was with that sailor-looking man measuring the height of the secretary bird.” A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago Pearly mountains and deep blue sky, and an impassable pass to walk down, and baboons, and secretary birds, and tortoises! Letters from the Cape It might as well be claimed that the secretary bird is a "natural sower of serpents," as that many of the grain-eating birds are "the natural sowers of seeds." Life: Its True Genesis Their legs are so thin that you can hardly see how it is they can support such big bodies, for the secretary birds have really fat bodies. Daddy's Bedtime Bird Stories 2012-04-21T02:00:27.490Z Here, for the first time, I saw the secretary bird, known to the Arabs as the "Devil's horse." The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs |
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