| Some hunts even constructed artificial earths within their coverts to further encourage the fox population. |
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| Most birds showed signs of moderate to heavy wear of the secondary coverts and rectrices. |
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| Yearlings in the study were identified in the hand by the olivegreen edges of their alulae and primary coverts. |
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| The plumage nearly lacks gray or rufescent tones, and the undertail coverts have much paler bases that contrast less with the tips. |
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| Their back and wing coverts are heavily barred with black, as are their rust-brown tails which terminate with a narrow white band. |
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| Both sexes have extensive gray stippling on long scapulars and upper wing coverts. |
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| Mounted hunters and foot followers, accompanied by novice hounds and men wielding whips and spades, surround fox coverts at dawn. |
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| I couldn't help but admire the beautifully laid out game crops and newly-planted coverts. |
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| The only man to poach another's foxes was one whose own coverts were bare, never a poor man looking for his dinner. |
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| Landowners who did not hunt were still expected to plant and maintain gorse coverts. |
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| So hunts moved into direct land management, buying and planting small pieces of rough scrub as coverts. |
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| The bird was black above with a white eyebrow and limited white on the wing coverts. |
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| The name of these birds comes from the vivid red coloring of the wing coverts. |
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| Males are mostly green with red sides to the body and red underwing coverts, with some blue in the wings and tail. |
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| The flight feathers are black, and the upper tail coverts and rump area are cobalt blue. |
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| He can capably hunt bobwhite quail and pheasants in the brushy coverts. |
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| The massive and gaudy tail feathers of the Peacock are the tetrices or coverts, the retrices are brown and relatively short and are used to support the fan. |
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| Beside roaring factories and in sequestered nooks on which deer and bear peer shyly from nearby leafy coverts, there have sprung up innumerable gardens. |
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| Its belly and underwing coverts were dark, but his tail was red. |
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| In flight, black axillaries contrast with white under-wing coverts. |
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| The upper back and mantle are a warm brown, with broad black streaks, while the lower back, rump and uppertail coverts are greyish brown. |
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| It has sweeping deer lawns, small woods, coverts and areas covered by huge solitary ancient oak trees. |
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| Median and greater wing coverts, rectrices, and uppertail coverts were growing and all were dark gray with white tips. |
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| Here, there is a large number of country houses and estates with parkland, estate woodlands, plantations and game coverts. |
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| By 20 days, most of the wing coverts had grown in and the remiges were breaking their sheaths. |
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| The underparts are pale grey or white, as are the cheeks, ear coverts, and stripes at the base of the head. |
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| Loafing coverts used by Northern Bobwhites in subtropical environments. |
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| Similarly the frequency and extent of tertial and rectrix replacement was greater in some species, particularly those that replaced more greater coverts. |
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| The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap. |
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