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Sentence Examples The mottled brown raptors I saw on the sixth are indeed immature Brahminy Kites. Kites are mostly flown for recreational purposes, but have many other uses. Kites were the precursors to the traditional aircraft, and were instrumental in the development of early flying craft. Kites had a historical role in lifting scientific instruments to measure atmospheric conditions for weather forecasting. Kites were used approximately 2,800 years ago in China, where materials ideal for kite building were readily available. Aerial survey is conducted using cameras attached to airplanes, balloons, UAVs, or even Kites. In Black Kites 1997, Orozco used a graphite pencil to draw a geometric pattern on a human skull. Kites have been used for scientific purposes, such as Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment proving that lightning is electricity. There were differing fortunes for Red House Farm teams Falcons and Kites in La Liga Two. Kites can be used to carry light effects such as lightsticks or battery powered lights. Kites have been used for signaling, for delivery of munitions, and for observation, by lifting an observer above the field of battle, and by using kite aerial photography. For most people, beaches are gregarious places for fun and games, cricket and football, volleyball and kites. Many people use foil kites for snowkiting, as they don't have to be pumped up in cold weather. It looks like one of Alexander Graham Bell's magnificent box kites, just lifting off the hill in back of his Nova Scotia home. There were serpents, spiders, box kites, ungainly human-shaped kites wobbling in the wind, to name just a few. The kite kits they sell have become more extravagant, too, with jar-shaped kites, crab and box kites now on offer. Older children will make traditional box kites and at the end of each workshop participants will fly their kites. The extremist mullahs who ruled Afghanistan believed the sight of skies filled with small, paper kites was somehow un-Islamic. For example, blue-footed booby and osprey nestlings fought more when hungry, but great egrets, blue herons and swallow-tailed kites did not. A villager who has hitch-hiked a lift with us whips out his slingshot, aiming for the kites. Show More Sentences The Manchester University academic and a pal are heading to the Greenland Icecap on sledges pulled by giant kites. Beach anglers in Australia and South Africa also use kites for purposes other than catching blue-water pelagics. Dozens of black kites wheel around the spire surveying the dusty gardens for dead meat and the church walls bask in sunshine. While most people fly shop-bought plastic kites, many still elect to build their own. Wild animals howl in the hills, while kites and eagles circle above the treetops. He now focuses on designing traction kites which can pull a board, a craft or a vehicle. We had no filters in 1906 and I could not have used one anyway, since the time exposure required was impossible with bobbing kites. Flying kites has been forbidden in public parks and gardens throughout the city since the beginning of this month. It is focused on the habitat selection and associations of apple snails, snail kites, and limpkins. Personally I do not find it as good in heavy or light winds as the Lewis kites. This reminds me of when my Dad used to make kites for me out of bamboo canes and brown paper. In the first tale, Chinese soldiers tied reed pipes to kites and flew the kites at night. Other birds to benefit nationally include song thrushes, red kites, skylarks and nightjars. Our guide, Peter, pointed out the cormorants, kites and spoonbills resting in the gums and coolabah trees and warned us about the Joe Blakes. All sorts of unusual kites were flown, and in addition there were a number of stalls and workshops. So I sat and flew my tiny little kite for a while and watched the much bigger inflatables and other kites fill the sky above. The kids were running around, some with kites, as the weather was so windy. The Alaskan kites are very hardy and can withstand wind speeds of up to 15 miles per hour. Alex said that when he was about six, he remembers hiking to the top of a mountain with his grandparents and flying kites with his grandfather. A large crowd of spectators gathered to watch multi-coloured kites of all shapes and sizes soaring and looping over the town. Show More Sentences Small children ran about with kites or pet dogs, their nannies close behind. Today, in a scene the Victorians would have recognised, kites can be seen flying 50 ft above villages in the Chilterns. Proponents claimed that the improved stork habitat would benefit the kites as well, which also frequented that area. To date 42 young kites have been released into the wild from a secret site located on the Harewood Estate, near Leeds. He claims the kites interact with pheasants without any problems, and many gamekeepers in the area are supportive of the birds. The list contains red kites, golden eagles, ospreys, goshawks and even domestic cats. As well as 419 pairs of golden eagles, osprey numbers are escalating, as are red kites, white-tailed sea eagles and peregrine falcons. Among raptors were two dark phase Booted eagles, Marsh harriers, Black shouldered kites, female shikra, and brahminy kite. There will also be an opportunity for the guests to fly kites, take a dip in the sea or the resort pool. On the way back, I could see the kite fest was starting to get going and the sky was beginning to fill with kites of all descriptions. When the wind suddenly drops, these kites come tumbling earthwards with a fierce velocity. We loved to play on the roof and used to have mango ice-cream parties, musical evenings and fly kites up there. Buy toys, like Frisbees, kites, or sports equipment such as Velcro paddles and tennis balls. In particular I am very concerned about the risk posed by the illegal use of poison to birds such as red kites, buzzards and hen harriers. Apparently a few years back there were only six pairs of breeding kites in the UK, but thankfully they have been thriving and multiplying since then. Both sexes of white storks and black kites look alike, so gender was determined by molecular procedures using DNA extracted from the cellular fraction of a few drops of blood. They even recited a poem on kites, written specially for the occasion. The full effect of a strong Westerly with accompanying big Atlantic seas was felt on the second day when the race officer ordered small kites to be used. In Germany, studies show turbines have killed dozens of rare red kites. The items included kites, toiletries, chocolates, biscuits, washing soaps, breakfast cereals and beans which she sourced from various business houses in the capital city. Show More Sentences In Anguilla, the only sailfish we ever caught was on a kite-bait, and our most successful tarpon fishing there revolved around winds strong enough to lift the kites. Boys play marbles, spin tops, fly kites, and play such games as kabaddi. Often lined up in ranks of twenty to thirty kites, the fliers work with partners to launch their large and uniquely designed and constructed kites. When the chicks hatched Hernan went up again, checking out the nests while the parents and auxiliaries seethed around his head like a swarm of belligerent box kites. We will wait to see how many untagged juvenile kites turn up in due course at the Argaty feeding station at Doune, Perthshire to gauge how many nests we have actually missed. For the Baffin trip, McLean sewed three sizes of packable kites rigged with reins and steering bars and borrowed Inuit designs to fashion flexible-wood gear sledges. Large amounts of rubbish in the streets and round buildings attracted scavenging birds such as gulls, buzzards, ravens and red kites when things were quiet. Tens of thousands of hawks, kites, falcons, eagles, osprey, vultures, and harriers appear in the skies over the Golden Gate from August through December. There were gopher tortoises here and above us swallow-tailed kites. It was really begun by small boys who had very little cord and would put their indigence to rights by recklessly cutting down other people's kites. With the help of NASA educators, school groups will have the chance to build their own flying machines, including helicopters, kites, rockets and airplanes. This weekend the beach will be sporting kites that will carry their surfing occupants at speeds of 80 to 100 miles an hour along the shallows of the ebb tide. Perhaps the most damning fact is that there are no breeding golden eagles, hen harriers or red kites on what should be prime breeding habitat for those species. I have heard varying reports of golden eagles, kites and merlins, but an investigation has almost every time led to the visitor being identified as a buzzard. The Cape Verde population became effectively extinct since 2000, all surviving birds being hybrids with black kites. A mitochondrial DNA study on museum specimens suggested that Cape Verde birds did not form a monophyletic lineage among or next to red kites. Viewers will see Maasai children making kites at school, and safari animals such as elephants, hippos and wildebeests. On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built. On histopathology, all kites had advanced atherosclerotic lesions, with several birds presenting abdominal hemorrhage and aortic rupture. In 1898, Bell experimented with tetrahedral box kites and wings constructed of multiple compound tetrahedral kites covered in maroon silk. Show More Sentences It is also the home of red kites, buzzards, dippers, peregrine falcons and ravens, with seasonal visits from ring ouzels and redstarts. Go for a stroll in Monas, a green central square full of families flying kites and dominated by a gold-topped obelisk. During my short drive I saw red-shouldered hawks, northern caracara, swallow-tailed kites, burrowing owls, and loggerhead shrikes. Black kites are very distinctive with a forked tail and dark plummage which is actually brown. The increased movement of birds, mainly crows, black kites, falcons and eagles, often results in some serious security threats. A family of birds of prey which includes hawks, buzzards, eagles, kites and harriers. Peter Taylor easily outflew the original time of 18 minutes 18 seconds, keeping his kites aloft for an incredible 50 minutes and 48 seconds. Some sailing craft are propelled by kites, as with kitesurfing, which uses a tethered airfoil. As a flexible Rogallo wing it allows a stable shape under aerodynamic forces, and so is often used for kites and other ultralight craft. Two men were killed in separate incidents while attempting to haul mines aboard to clear fouled sweeping kites. By at least 549 AD paper kites were being flown, as it was recorded in that year a paper kite was used as a message for a rescue mission. Long-tailed dragon kites, stunt kites and box kites were flown by experts from as far away as Japan, USA, India and Ghana. Common difficulties with the sweeping procedure involved mine cables becoming entangled in the kites attached to the sweeping wires. A wide range of wildlife thrives in the range, including red kites and red foxes, which both prey on rabbits and voles. They cover most of the countries in which red kites are believed to have bred. On 19 July 2007, the first thirty red kites were released in County Wicklow. Red kites were extinct in Ireland by the middle nineteenth century, due to persecution, poisoning and woodland clearance. In the United Kingdom, red kites were ubiquitous scavengers that lived on carrion and rubbish. He conducted research into the behavior of kites in the upper atmosphere, experimenting at a meteorological observation site near Glossop. Red kites are decreasing in their strongholds of Spain, France and Germany. Show More Sentences There have also been a number of incidents of red kites and other raptors being targeted by wildlife criminals. Scientists believe other soarers including different eagle species, vultures and kites are likely to employ the same technique. He noted the commonness of kites in English cities where they snatched food out of the hands of children. Some of Bell's kites are on display at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site. Meanwhile, Washington hosted the 21st International Kite Festival, which saw long-tailed dragon kites, stunt kites and box kites lighting up the sky. We'll fish these baits from two kites and also from flatlines. The eggs found in the raids in the Brixham area of Devon also included those of peregrine falcons, ospreys, avocets, red kites and Cetti's warblers. Cards, dolls, kites, spinning tops, puzzles, and board games are just a few of the diversions that have lifted spirits among adults and children over the centuries. Ancient and medieval Chinese sources list other uses of kites for measuring distances, testing the wind, lifting men, signaling, and communication for military operations. Screeching seagulls Swooping and diving like stringless kites. Specifically, the Royal Meteorological Society researched and investigated the ionization of the upper atmosphere, by suspending instruments on balloons or kites. Some authors hold that leaf kites were being flown much earlier in what is now Indonesia, based on their interpretation of cave paintings on Muna Island off Sulawesi. In a few months, kites will fly and lolly ices will be licked on this beach, as families in cozzies spread their picnic rugs and reach for the sun-tan lotion. Evidence for the former presence of red kites in the region include place names linked to the Anglo-Saxon name for the bird of Glead or Glede meaning to glide. Our good master keeps his kites up to the last moment, studding-sails alow and aloft, and, by incessant straight steering, never loses a rod of way. As scavengers, red kites are particularly susceptible to poisoning. In 1908, Edison patented his own design for a helicopter powered by a gasoline engine with box kites attached to a mast by cables for a rotor, but it never flew. Species represented at the sites include ravens, crows, rooks, magpies, jackdaws, various types of eagle and vulture, red and black kites, kestrels and falcons. A few black kites circle the Hindu temple, watching the city below. Confiscated wild animals include wolves, bears, ostrich, peacocks, roes, black kites, vulture, marmot, snow leopard, swans, ducks, foxes, carrier pigeons, owl. Show More Sentences Conceptual research and development projects by over a hundred entities are investigating the use of kites in harnessing high altitude wind currents to generate electricity. Although they were initially regarded as mere curiosities, by the 18th and 19th centuries kites were being used as vehicles for scientific research. Examples from Classical Literature The kites are all of the multiplane type, and mostly of Hargrave's construction with two rectangular cells. Large kites of the ordinary form can be used for the same purpose, but their lifting power is not equal to that of the box kite. The box kite looked so unlike any of the kites that they had flown that some wondered whether it would go up in the air. The separate sphere of influence occupied by kites and gulls sufficiently explains the dissimilitude of their plumage. I said to Margaret, when the kites were snugged down and all yards trimmed on the wind. If charnel-houses and our graves must send Those that we bury back, our monuments Shall be the maws of kites. On account of the greater stability and strength of the new kites, the meteorograph is suspended directly from the top kite. Perhaps one of the easiest kites to make is one which the children of Annam and Tonking delight to play with. The money he made by gunning or fishing he spent for tops and kites. In a gale too strong for other kites, a box kite will fly safely. He is a key player in many conservation initiatives including those focused on swallow-tailed kites and white-crowned pigeons. There was also his remark about Marietta and kites, unatoned for as yet. Rokkaku kites are traditional six-sided kites with long center spines and two crossbars. Our sea anchor was deployed amidship along with two fishing kites on the downwind side and several flatlines on the upwind side of the boat. But experts led by the Zoological Society of London are warning the new rules for England and Wales could hit wildlife such as barn owls, corncrakes and red kites. Well, he's mended kites for me, Huck, and knitted hooks on to my line. Find more words! 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