| 单词 | snowy heron |
| 例句 | One snowy heron soared down, folding its wings in at the last minute, returning to its nest deep in the marsh grass. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the sun-baked Causeway blue-tailed lizards raced and chased each other, frisking up tree trunks, flashing across branches: a snowy heron rose like some winged thing from Heaven, and floated away into the silvery light. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z He started the reserve twenty years ago with eight snowy herons. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open If you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth you may even be so lucky as to see a snowy heron passing through to some heronry in the wilds of Canada. Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road Her hat appeared to have been constructed out of the skin of the snowy heron, with its beak and plumage preserved intact, and dressed into the jauntiest style. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 His stilts are of bamboo wood, and he calls them "Heron-legs," after the long-legged snowy herons that strut about in the wet rice-fields. Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories If the eggs of the little blue heron were blue, would not those of the snowy herons be pure white? Bird Stories Several times we had to turn aside to avoid the swampy ponds, fringed with tall saw-grass; from amid which rose snipes, plovers, and wild-ducks, and occasionally flocks of the beautiful white egret and snowy heron. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting Once a great winged wraith of ghostly white flapped by with a croak, a snowy heron, winging like a shape of Wrath Incarnate, above the crouching man in the grass. Diane of the Green Van The snowy herons are killed exactly as I describe. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation One of the greatest sufferers among the bird mothers is the egret, or snowy heron. Friends and Helpers Now the marsh where the snowy herons went fishing, where the shallow water was a favorite swimming-place for little fishes, was ten miles or more from their nest. Bird Stories We had, however, killed several ducks and plovers, and three large snowy herons, which the men ate in spite of their rank taste. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting A pair of snowy herons flapped tamely about among the pines. Diane of the Green Van 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 Women there were, who wished to make themselves look better by wearing the feathers that Nature had given snowy herons for their very own. Bird Stories But Ardea and the other snowy herons ran about in a lively way, spying out the little fishes with their bright yellow eyes, and catching them up quickly in their black beaks. Bird Stories In a large cage in this pond, I raised some snowy herons. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation I remember that last year I picked up four plumes of the snowy heron that were in one bunch. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation |
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