The stubborn coot had me trying for six months, during which I wasn't whipped once. |
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In a few hours, Uncle Ivan, a Mocha Frappuccino-loving old bald coot, was due to arrive. |
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Instead of a mischievously lovable old coot, we get this barely Irish, youngish, oafish dude. |
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Papa has always been a crotchety, grouchy, grumpy yet extremely lovable old coot. |
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However, there were plenty of resident shorebirds hanging out in the lagoon as well, such as the American coot, killdeer, and American avocet. |
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I saw a single coot and lots of wood pigeons perched in the dead trees surrounding the lagoon. |
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I have very dark brown eyes and even though I now shave my head so I'm bald as a coot, I once had long dark brown flowing locks. |
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Sibelius was portrayed as a grim faced gentleman with mad, bulging eyes, bald as a coot. |
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There are the usual species for this wetland habitat mallard, tufted duck, coot, wigeon, teal and mute swan. |
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Hence if Balde were, well, bald as a coot, knobbly-kneed or of Bunteresque physique, he would duly be ridiculed for these signs of imperfection. |
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Of course, native birds such as the American coot, mallard, and Brewer's blackbird also used this valuable oasis. |
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When I first visited the Lake in July 2000, there were over 200 coot and great numbers of other birds, including 40 Black Swans. |
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Overall, of the 10 coot eggs that were scored as similar to the host's, five were buried and five were accepted. |
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Not even a coot presented itself among the boats and docks, but I finally saw an Osprey at a great distance. |
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But I hope you'll indulge an old-fashioned coot like me if I choose to believe otherwise. |
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Why should the oldest coot in the majority party be the one who is in line for the presidency? |
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Look, I'm the oldest coot in the business, but even I do not want to just keep reliving the past over and over. |
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Other birds I saw near the pond were coot, moorhen, purple swamphen and a few Gray Wagtails walking around near the water. |
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He was also an endearingly tetchy coot whose prejudices, passions, and irascibility remained uncompromised over time. |
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Birds with white plumage, such as swans, have a white body louse, while the dark-plumaged coot has an almost black body louse. |
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Soon I started driving to the lake north of town, where I found coot and killdeer, and to my uncle's farm to find rufous-sided towhee and field sparrow. |
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Of the ones sitting down the middle man was bald as a coot, his whole head shining with a sweat I thought would come away on my hand like coconut oil. |
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So the Jerry and David conversations become warning sessions, not just between a ranting coot and an upstart kid but also between different generations of the same Woody. |
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My visit to the Laundry pond yielded only a few birds, a single little egret, a coot, a pair of little grebes, several ferruginous ducks and a small flock of mallards. |
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Of the ones that nest, it is important to highlight the coot, the cap-blau, the suís, the avisador and sedge-warble. |
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One sports a magnificent glossy mullet that wouldn't look out of place on a golden retriever, while the other is as bald as a coot. |
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To the bald eagle, a vulturish scavenger that will eat most anything, nothing is more inviting than a dazed and disabled coot idling on flat water. |
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It was a Hawaiian stilt, which like the duck, moorhen and coot, is a federally endangered species. |
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In fact, Mrs Dole is 72, but the coot explains that some watchdog organisation once ranked her the 93rd most effective senator. |
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The scoter, a diving duck of the family Anatidae, is also called a sea coot. |
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Listen to a sunset chorus of marsh birds, the eerie cries of rail, coot, grebe, and bittern. |
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Today, the lakes are home to birds like the moorhen, grey heron, great crested grebe, coot and kingfisher. |
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Other water birds to be found on the Thames include the great crested grebe, coot, moorhen, heron and kingfisher. |
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And the Prime Minister — he's bald as a coot! |
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While the species just mentioned are on the rebound, populations of other birds, such as the black tern, American coot, and marsh wren, are declining, apparently due to loss of the healthy wetlands that they need. |
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The wetland habitat has become a premier site for smew and often holds several hundred coot. |
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Description of affected population: one tufted duck and one common coot. |
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In the 13th century, the balled coot was a water bird with a white mark on its forehead, lingering in the lingo today in the simile bald as a coot. |
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The presence of the fauna is linked to the Valle Bertuzzi lagoon nearby: among the most common species we find the little grebe, the mallard, the coot and the kingfisher. |
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He's freshened up his music by playing the old coot. |
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Who is that scrawny old coot on the bicycle, snarling for passage? |
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The little sailors will have to be fit because the new team will have to prove their bravery to go with the treasure seeker, an old coot with plenty of jokes, pranks and stories, in his quest. |
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It fell at my feet and I looked down for it and accidentally kicked it and then went to retrieve it and stepped past the plump lady, and the old coot turned, horror-stricken, to see me coming. |
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Wildlife species, such as the black tern, American coot, marsh wren, and other species are declining, largely because of loss of wetlands and other important habitat. |
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The American Coot is a medium-sized bird with a white bill, yellow legs, and lobed toes. |
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Coot Club and The Big Six are set in an accurate representation of the Norfolk Broads, particularly the small village of Horning and its surrounding rivers and broads. |
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Among the popular varieties that were sighted on the banks of river Ganges include Ruddy Shelduck, Great Crested Grebe, Gadwall, Coot, Tufted Pochard and Bar-Headed Geese. |
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