Well-adapted to urban environments, grackles, crows, ravens, blackbirds, and jays thrive everywhere we do. |
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If no berries remain, having been stripped earlier by blackbirds and mistle thrushes, they perish. |
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The preserve, wild with birdsong, was thick with robins, flickers, grackles, blackbirds, catbirds, and doves. |
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Eggs were bought for threepence a dozen by the Temuka Roads Board for sparrows, thrushes and blackbirds. |
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We'd be out in the fields trying to flush pheasants, and flocks of migrating blackbirds would appear. |
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Redwing journey here non-stop from southern Scandinavia often in company with fieldfares and blackbirds. |
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The berries are startling and I am very much looking forward to the arrival of the northern blackbirds, the fieldfare and redwing. |
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In dry conditions when wet mud is difficult to obtain swallows will take over old nests of other birds including house martins and blackbirds. |
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The marshes are excellent areas to see red-winged blackbirds, swallows, Virginia rails, and yellow-headed blackbirds. |
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John also reared and released 12 starlings, 11 house martins, eight blackbirds, three bluetits, three hedge sparrows and a ferret. |
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We saw lots of catbirds, blackbirds, mockingbirds, cardinals, crows, and grackles. |
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The hills around him were teeming with wild birds as the snipe, woodcock, and blackbirds and this was the life he loved to study and watch. |
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Down in the bog, the first red-winged blackbirds were yodeling, and a robin sang in the evening. |
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Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch. |
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The reserve is home to woodpeckers, chaffinches, bullfinches and blackbirds. |
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The common birds included grackles, blackbirds, catbirds, and lots and lots of robins. |
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In this country, unless the weather is severe, the birds frequent open country associating with redwings, blackbirds and yellowhammers. |
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The list was impressive and included robins, starlings, a goldfinch, blackbirds, redwings, chaffinches, wood pigeons and black-headed gulls. |
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The redwing, fieldfare and blackbirds are all involved in serious territorial swoops between trees. |
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My own small back garden contains the live nests of wrens, blackbirds and sparrows, so there will be scores more on the campus. |
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The blackcurrant bush is alive with the wings and chirps of greedy blackbirds gorging themselves. |
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Unlike dowdy, brown females of the species, male blackbirds possess bright yellow-to-orange beaks and shiny black plumage. |
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We tend to be very suspicious of the paid hacks, the yeasayers and naysayers who generally act like a bunch of blackbirds on a telephone wire. |
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I went down towards the creek and found a huge flock of robins, grackles and red-winged blackbirds foraging. |
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In the prairie pothole region of the United States, blackbirds damage ripening sunflower crops. |
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It is an excellent place to watch forktails, redstarts, kingfisher, blackbirds etc. |
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Three plump blackbirds, made all the plumper by the cold-weather attitude of their feathers, sat in a ragged row. |
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In the eighteenth century the great naturalist, Gilbert White of Selborne, paid a man to shoot blackbirds by the score every spring to protect his fruit trees. |
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The next thing these people will kill blackbirds for spreading redwater. |
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Almost everywhere you look in Guanacaste Province there are pairs, trios, or small flocks of Groove-billed Anis, birds that superficially resemble blackbirds. |
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As dawn breaks on a misty Welsh morning, the earliest birds to break into song are likely to include European robins, followed by blackbirds and song thrushes. |
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All around the greedy jackjaws, blackbirds, thrushes and magpies eye the ripening fruit and at the exact moment that the fruit ripens they pounce leaving nothing but pips. |
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common. |
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The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes. |
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I pulled over at Schaar's Bluff, turned off my car and just sat and listened, beyond the bluebirds and meadowlarks you could hear tree sparrows and red-winged blackbirds. |
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The long snake of my entire school was led through the little streets of Armagh to the local picture house, with Vincentians like blackbirds herding us front and back. |
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For larger birds such as blackbirds, starlings and song thrushes that feed on insects, food found easily in the summer can be cut off as frost seals the ground. |
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I'm dealing with clouds of blackbirds today but what did Annie say? |
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A minimalist phase would account for redwing blackbirds, luna moths and striped skunks. |
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Nesting of red-winged blackbirds in cattails and common reed grass in Mentor Marsh. |
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The current dip in temperatures will see more and more birds arriving, including common species such as blackbirds, mistle thrushes and finches. |
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There are bees buzzing in the comfrey, blackbirds rootling through the borders and my friend the robin singing from the silver birch. |
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That list includes snowy egrets, red-winged blackbirds and American kestrels. |
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The most abundant species were grasshopper and Henslow's sparrows as well as eastern meadowlarks and red-winged blackbirds. |
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Starting then and for the rest of his life, he photographed bitterns, red-winged blackbirds, and marsh wrens, among other bird species. |
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Wildlife experts say the weather appears to have hit the chicks of thrush species such as blackbirds, song thrushes and robins. |
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Red-winged blackbirds will be arriving, in the Northeast, Spring peepers will be peeping there, and loons will be mating. |
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Ptarmigan, grouse, crow blackbirds, dove, ducks and other game fowl are consumed in the United States. |
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Species in the packs support a variety of wildlife, including starlings, blackbirds, song thrush and mistle thrushes and squirrels. |
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Orioles, along with grackles, blackbirds, meadowlarks, and oropendolas, belong to a family called the Icteridae, which are found only in the New World. |
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Home-side of the linhay, and under the ashen hedge-row, where father taught me to catch blackbirds, all at once my heart went down, and all my breast was hollow. |
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Red-winged blackbirds are often calling in the wetlands by the 15th, and woodcocks, canvasback ducks and rusty blackbirds appear in many locations as March approaches. |
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Killdeer and red-winged blackbirds thrive along the densely thicketed edges of lakes and small ponds where beaver busily harvest trees to build lodges and dams. |
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So does listening to the warbling trills of red-winged blackbirds that call across the endless spartina grass that all seems to grow to exactly the same height. |
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They spotted not only common birds like blackbirds, magpies, wrens and robins, but rare breeds including red kite, linnet, tree pipit and ring-necked parakeet. |
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Besides well-known species like blackbirds and robins, your garden may also play host to more unusual species such as blackcaps, reed buntings, woodpeckers and yellowhammers. |
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Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on. |
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Small seeds, such as millet, attract mostly house sparrows, dunnocks, finches, reed buntings and collared doves, while flaked maize is taken readily by blackbirds. |
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Other hot products included baking tools, among them handmade pottery pie birds, a sculptured trio of blackbirds designed to release steam from a pie while it bakes. |
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Though red-winged blackbirds have returned and cardinals are finally singing loudly, earthworm-dependent woodcock are still far south probing softer grounds. |
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