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Sentence Examples Since the mid-1800s, the dodo has been classified as part of the family that includes pigeons and doves. If it is dense enough, shrubbery can provide a home to ground-nesting birds such as doves and thrushes as well as small mammals like rabbits. Since the crows have been arriving in greater numbers on this hill, I have been spotting fewer and fewer mourning doves around the house. For wildlife this is a boon, especially for white-winged and mourning doves. I also see hornbills pass up small-fruited figs that would draw doves and pigeons in by the hundreds. There was a long silence broken only by the sad calls of two mourning doves. The director, Whitman, was an experimental geneticist and spent years in the study of hybrid doves and pigeons. Chickadees, cardinals, doves, and robins came and went, and a grackle made a racket in the woods. The slo-mo frames, the two-handed shooting and even the perennially startled doves are all there. The heavy air vibrates with cooing of doves and the creaking-gate single note of the tropical boubou. Pigeons and doves can be solitary to very social and can be found in flocks of several thousand. Most doves prefer feeding on the ground, and the Eurasian collared dove in no exception. From Sue Gibbon's property in Chidlow another 30 birds found their way to freedom including galahs, bronzewings, doves and kookaburras. The large wooden gates are adorned with red hearts and streamers and white paper doves have been hung from the trees. It's been obvious, since my return, that the collared doves have given up any attempt to make the high-rise golden cypress habitable. Did you know, baby doves are actually called squabs, which is a horrible word. If you want to see a war, come between the hours of 6 and 9 in the morning when the doves and pigeons try to eat the grapes. Three million migratory bird hunters spent 29 million days hunting for birds such as doves and ducks. Most days she goes to the writer's room, a calm neutral space where doves coo outside. By the barn pond, a Scandinavian-looking dovecote stands starkly above the water, complete with two carved wooden doves. Show More Sentences A complicating factor is hawks and doves in the cabinet who differ on approach. Last year, when I was still walking almost daily through my neighborhood, there were quail everywhere, as well as mourning doves. Exotics such as cotton palms and African mahoganies which are favoured by the turtle and Barbary doves, should be avoided. We at Dimpler Towers are thinking that siding with the doves over policy may not be such a bad idea. The doves argue that following the UN track to the letter would help to build international support for war. The black grouping of lights look like a murder of crows and the white ones like a dole of doves flying above your head. Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing. Farmland birds that fared particularly well included kestrels, greenfinches and stock doves. Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch. They went back to the refuge of their hole happy, for they had seen a few peacocks, a few koels and a flock of doves. The event's show stopper was when the organisers released a dole of doves, white balloons and confetti from a helicopter as symbols of peace. The event took on a World War I theme culminating in the release of a dole of white doves. Kingfishers, yellowbills, doves and a host of other winged warblers I could not identify. Six medallions with Greek crosses, fishes, and doves appear to float above the waves. He detested the Victorian ideal of love, with the doves and rosy-cheeked cherubs and gossamer and lace. In coastal areas, for example, puffins, rock doves, fulmars and guillemots are most favoured items of diet. The gable roof provides extra head room for doves, as they are larger than the other platform nesters. In coastal areas, for example, puffins, rock doves, fulmars and guillemots are the most favoured items of diet. Some pigeons and doves, including tropical fruit doves, are exclusively frugivorous, fruit-eating. Descended from wild rock doves, homing pigeons can locate their lofts, or roosts, even when released several thousand miles away. Show More Sentences But the population of bird species such as rosefinches, spotted doves and grey jungle fowl did go up during the flowering. Wood said that while few would notice the passing of Sumba's little-known hornbills, quails and fruit doves, their demise has wider implications. I have been asking around to see if anyone has seen two white fantail doves. As food, wild turkeys eat its roots, and ruffed grouse, mourning doves, bobwhite, turkeys and juncos devour its seeds. Eagles, vultures, penguins, ravens, crows, doves, and ostriches are just a few of the birds that do double time as species and symbols. She's also hoping to prevent the establishment of hunting seasons on mourning doves, sandhill cranes, and wolves. The applause rose to a crescendo when four white doves were freed and flew into the night sky. The comments of men like them represent a serious rift in the Orange Order, separating the doves from the hawks. Two young doves had been picked up in their nest when a coral tree was chopped down. Japan's leaders are neither doves nor hawks but pragmatists, for whom economic and military security are equally important. Mirroring the shallowness of hawks, who condemn peaceniks for their lack of patriotism, many doves castigate anyone who is not opposed to war. The upland stamp would be required of those hunting doves, quail, pheasants and other upland birds. The bald-headed birds, a little bigger than doves, emerged to hop around in the sunlight. Around me was the tiny hoot of ground doves and the twittering of bananaquits. Such species as love birds, parrots and doves are spending more time near the water trough and less on picking for food. Many Labour backbenchers regard them as the doves in the Cabinet most capable of leading anti-war dissent. The preserve, wild with birdsong, was thick with robins, flickers, grackles, blackbirds, catbirds, and doves. Thousands of doves took to a sky already blackened by a massive cloud pluming over the cityscape. On a less frantic note, while we go to a rooftop in Rome, dozens of doves, pigeons, were released carrying messages of hope and peace. To stay warm, Inca doves form groups of up to 12 and stand on each other's backs. Show More Sentences I know it's difficult to think of clever names for white fantail doves, that's why I asked you lot to help! Some species of pigeons and doves have expanded their ranges and increased their population sizes as a result of human activities. Ice cracked on a nearby tree, sending a flock of doves flying into the cloudlessly blue sky. That's counting the birds like starlings, rock doves and house sparrows, introduced species most birders don't even count! This same concept is repeated later when the Torah explains the procedure of sacrificing doves or pigeons. Many birds feed comfortably on a platform, especially the sparrows, juncos, towhees and doves that are referred to as ground feeders. We also saw collared doves, wood pigeons, barn swallows and a red-wattled plover. There are a lot of reasons for this failure, including the long-time split within the party between hawks and doves. Most of the other creations showed doves, the symbols of peace, holding on to strings attached to planet earth. Round the list out with the expected sparrows, cardinals, crows, starlings, doves, and catbirds, and you've got a nice hour of birding. Congressional doves, by uniting around a strong offensive eschewing triangulation weakened the president. The branches serve as a handy perch for the sparrows and mourning doves that frequent my city bird feeder. I've seen sparrows, dirty pigeons, doves, screeching seagulls, nasty crows and the occasional hawk. We're envisaging matching white suits, turtle doves, and a minimalist gazebo. Staying on the holiday shopping theme, just how much do three French hens, a couple of turtle doves, or five gold rings actually cost? The agency slaughtered on Tuesday 45 pigeons, turtle doves and doves, including the infected ones, to prevent the virus from spreading. The largest of Washington's pigeons and doves, it is all gray, with a lighter gray, banded tail. There are many wild birds that don't use nestboxes, such as doves, cardinals, orioles, hummingbirds, just to name a few. In most areas, doves establish year-round feeding territories that are defended against conspecifics. Parrots, parakeets, bleeding heart doves, cuckoos, owls and large amounts of small birds can still be seen. Show More Sentences At first light, not long after the mourning doves begin their day-long cooing, the crows decide on their day's agenda. Night comes down with a pair of mourning doves softly calling from the trees below the camp. The small, pigeon-like birds that feed on the ground are called mourning doves because of the sad sound of their coos. Of course, we still have our year-round chickadees, titmice, cardinals, woodpeckers, mourning doves and song sparrows. We would watch for low-flying herons along the shore, and somewhere hear gentle mourning doves in the breaking dawn. The arrival of the Popemobile set abroad in the crowd a loud and enthusiastic flutter of welcome, as if a thousand white doves had been set free above the square. What about threatened species.... honeyeaters, lorikeets and cockatoos, with Asian sunbirds, shrikes and flycatchers and Wallacean fruit doves and flowerpeckers? The legislation, pushed by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, is aimed at generating funding for programs targeting game birds such as mourning doves and quail. Cracked corn is a favorite of mourning doves, grackles and juncos. My grandfather wanted to look through the book and quickly became enthralled by its colorful plates of whistlers, honeyeaters, parrots, pigeons, and doves. Bugles sound taps for the police persons, firemen and city and government and at times white doves are released at mourning services that bid farewell to groups. Or one portraying the former KGB officer as a superhero surrounded by doves? The highest diversity of pigeons and doves occurs in tropical rainforests. If money is an issue we will go halves on the turtle doves with you! Tree sparrow numbers have declined by 95 per cent since 1970, corn buntings by 85 per cent, turtle doves by 70 per cent and skylarks by 52 per cent. Two turtle doves sat in a nest and sang sweet love to one another. Does this mean the end of the mourning doves, the finches, the mocking birds, the California quail, and all the other different voices in my neighborhood of birds? I did more research and I read that mourning doves can live up to seventeen years in captivity, but I'm sure they have to be active to be healthy. By the narrowest of margins, the Senate has decided to reverse a policy that has endured for nearly 60 years and to allow the target shooting of harmless mourning doves. There are an estimated 10-12 million mourning doves in Minnesota. Show More Sentences Large pigeons, bronzewings and doves will eat larger seeds, while smaller doves will eat smaller seeds and grains, similar to that fed to the finches and quail. High on the old chimney stack of the barn sit the white doves. Walking around the cemetery yielded a handful of red-wings, phoebes, doves, and Song Sparrows and nice looks at a Field Sparrow and a White-eyed Vireo. Their short breeding cycle allows pigeons and doves to have more broods to compensate for their small brood sizes and relatively high rates of predation. White winged doves coo, and a whiptail lizard scurries across the gravel. For the next many weeks, the Gulf Coast sky will be a constantly changing tableau of hawks and doves, vultures and vireos, flycatchers and hummingbird, warblers and waterfowl. We mostly saw the usual sparrows, doves, crows, chickadees, and titmice. Tons of Blue Jay are in flight right now as they are involved in a migration of their own. Other birds on the island include boobies, fairy terns, frigate birds, and a good-sized population of friendly ground doves, a species classed as internationally vulnerable. He came to a certain place near Bevagna, in which a great many birds of various types had congregated, including doves, crows and some others commonly called daws. The flower looks like a dole of doves drinking when viewed from above. Nestling pigeons and doves grow rapidly because of the crop-milk. The Mourning Dove is the most slender of Washington's pigeons and doves. Doocots, or dovecots, were built for pigeons or doves to nest in. Barry McCaffrey, America's drug czar, and Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering, for being doves on Colombia. And species we have sadly lost could feature too, such as turtle doves and corn buntings. Fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling. At these celebrations doves are released to symbolise peace and fighter jets fly over and the national anthem is sung. Her head is the sun, an illusion to the tree birth of the sun, and she is accompanied by two doves, the typical bird of the Great Goddess. The pigeon milk is produced in the crops of both parents in all species of pigeons and doves. Despite these demonstrated abilities, wild rock doves are sedentary and rarely leave their local areas. Show More Sentences Wild rock doves are pale grey with two black bars on each wing, while domestic and feral pigeons are very variable in colour and pattern. Fecal samples of the remaining doves were positive for mycobacterial infection, and thus they were euthanatized. The early seasons for mourning doves, Canada geese, woodcock and other migratory bird species break down similarly to last year. Tree sparrow numbers have declined by 95 per cent since 1970, corn buntings by 85 per cent, turtle doves by 70s, skylarks by 52 per cent. Cactus wrens, white-winged doves, and red-tailed hawks build nests in the crotches between arms and the trunk. The sanctuary, besides having a good deciduous forest cover, is a rich habitat to porcupines, peafowls, parakeets and doves. Data is collected on birds including babblers, thrushes, warblers, sunbirds, doves, flycatchers, waxbills and broadbills. Pigeons were loud with their wing-beat and doves fluttered about the branches of mahoe and poui trees. We also added ring-necked doves, black-faced sand grouse and yellow-necked spurfowl to our bags. We investigated the Chlamydia spp occurrence in Eurasian collared doves from urban and suburban areas in northern Italy. Spotted and ringed turtle doves are also allowed, but common ground, ruddy ground and Inca dove are prohibited. The box that the barn owls call home was put up in 2006, but since then only stock doves have used it to breed. As the rock doves continued their soothing whoo whooing, the African bush came alive. The collared doves and rock doves too Contribute to the hullabaloo, Then a flash of colour, lovely red, When the bullfinch shows his head. Ringneck doves are also commonly called Barbary doves, turtle doves, and some people even refer to them as pigeons. The most common families of upland birds in the site are tinamous and doves, which are popular gamebirds across the Neotropics. The thought occurred to me that I might have a chance at my first double on collared doves. Pigeons and doves, such as the wood pigeon and collared dove, have no qualms about breeding young at any time of year. Small seeds, such as millet, attract mostly house sparrows, dunnocks, finches, reed buntings and collared doves, while flaked maize is taken readily by blackbirds. Barn owl nestboxes in particular seem to attract other tenants, with reports of the owls sharing with species including jackdaws, kestrels and stock doves. Show More Sentences Venous blood gas and lactate values of mourning doves, boat-tailed grackles, and house sparrows after capture by mist net, banding, and venipuncture. The doves, parrots, louries, and cuckoos of Southern Africa. The large-scale purchase of rock pigeons and collar doves by the local farm owners, common in the region, also makes the bird market a beehive of activities during winter. There are two green ringneck parakeets, five cockatiels, two sunbirds, three diamond doves, two rosella birds, a Senegal parrot and an Amazon parrot named Tom. Hopkins Windhover takes a mouse, the ring doves greedily eat the corn. Hummingbirds cavort in her yard year-round, and on Saturday alone, she counted five mourning doves, two dark-eyed juncos, a white-crowned sparrow and two house finches. And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. As Francis toured in his open-topped popemobile at his weekly audience in Rome, someone in the crowd thrust a white bird cage with two doves inside at him. As Francis toured the square in his open-topped popemobile at his weekly public audience, someone in the crowd thrust a white bird cage with two doves inside at him. Don't miss designer Laura Kirar's lighting for Arteriors, including a chandelier with 24 doves perched on a gold ring and this understatedly elegant vintage brass floor lamp. I have recently bought a breadmaker, and so far, Doves Barleycorn Flour makes the best loaf I have ever tasted! With The Last Broadcast, Doves have consolidated their position as a credible and commercial band of the noughties. Yet rather than opting for safe tracks of the same ilk, Doves have chosen to expand their sound. I'd heard about Doves, Disco Biscuits and these micro-dots of acid that came on cardboard pucks. Doves are the flightiest and most fickle of game birds, particularly this time of year. The finale provides an apt swansong with a hypnotic vocal mantra that builds into a potent cadenza reminiscent of the early Doves, but customised by piercing percussive jabs. Doves are smaller than chickens, so you eat three or four instead of half of one, just as we usually eat a half-dozen or more perch compared to a single walleye fillet. Doves generally say we must leave Afghanistan because the fight is unwinnable. The Doves it seems live are more of a singles rather than album band. The species with the highest seropositivity were Rock Doves, Great Horned Owls, Chukar, Northern Cardinals, House Sparrows, and Brown Thrashers. Show More Sentences Doves and pigeons are considered to be game birds, as many species have been hunted and used for food in many of the countries in which they are native. Examples from Classical Literature Becky Bannister was as white as the doves that were flittering down to the garden pool to drink. We were in a little grove of mimosa, and the doves were busy above our heads. Hence it is asserted that the story of the doves in the oak at Dodona is a fable. The man at her side, minus any doves on him to mar his seraphic smile, is myself. And it was draggled, begrimed, uncleanly, as never were the doves of Aphrodite. For verily I saw the owner of the dovecot from which the hawk has stolen the two doves. He wallows in doves and coy toyings and modest blushes, and bowers and meads. Also spotted were herons, bulbuls, parakeets, doves, sparrows, swifts and partridges, among other species. On trees the songs of doves, kingfishers and yellow-vented bulbuls are overlapping. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots. He had been all day in the hills west of the Napa Valley, looking for doves and such small game as was in season. Many of the windows were unglazed, and bats flew in and out like doves out of a dove-cote. In that case he will grow tired of himself and come back, and you will both coo like turtle doves until he runs away again. Dampier also, in the same year, says that a man in a morning's walk might kill six or seven dozen of these doves. Steels, Concordia, with doves on square and astronomical globe. Every year, millions of turtle doves, cuckoos, yellow wagtails and other native birds migrate to West Africa for the colder winter months. There was a sound as of the cooing sob of doves, which seemed to multiply and intensify with each second. From the oaks of Dodona doves uttered oracles of the future. The wind was picking up as the sun climbed higher, and it didn't take long before I flushed a pair of doves sitting in a small locust tree. The three species ranged from red-eyed doves about the size of rock pigeons, to Cape turtledoves the size of North American mourning doves, to even smaller laughing doves. Show More Sentences The twilight sounds of the mourning doves and the whippoorwills. Atlantic puffins, European turtle doves, Slavonian grebes and pochards are now on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species for birds. The Doves, as long as he was silent, supposed him to be one of themselves and admitted him to their cote. These titles will be followed by novels such as Steve Burrows' A Siege Of Bitterns, A Pitying Of Doves and A Cast Of Falcons. He plays the airy flute, And looks depressed and blighted, Doves round about him 'toot,' And lambkins dance delighted. Doves build in taller trees than these, in fir-trees, Azariah answered. Doves with gentle eyes cooed among the green leaves, snow-white clouds floated in the sunny shy, and the golden light, brighter than before, shone softly down. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of doves? Words that rhyme with doves What is the adjective for doves? What is the noun for doves? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Dover dovekie dovecote dovecot Dove dove dovetail dovetailed dovetailing dovetails dovish dovishness 5-letter Words Starting With d do dov dove