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Sentence Examples In winter Miranda is home to birds from New Zealand's South Island, particularly wrybills, pied oystercatchers and kotuku. The pied wheatear perched on a telephone line and would fly down to the ground to catch something then go back to its perch. To the majority of nurserymen, pied wagtails are hardly welcome because they foul tomatoes, and chrysanthemums and carnation blooms. I had asked to see a pied kingfisher, and was taken to a pond where a pair were known to nest. They can explain at length why the bird they saw was definitely a white-eared monarch which no-one could possibly confuse with a pied. As yet another scorching summer has drawn to a close in Mumbai, one hears the haunting cry of the pied crested cuckoo. Their opera is the mysterious and darkly moving tale of what happened after the pied piper left Hamelin. They have been bred in colors of blue, yellow-green, white, and various pied shades. A few species, such as pied kingfishers and laughing kookaburras are cooperative breeders. Elsewhere in the country an exceptionally large reedbed roost in Hampshire once held over 180 grey wagtails in company with 100 pied wagtails. The pied flycatcher is a small, migratory, passerine bird that is sexually dimorphic in color during the breeding season. For our research, we used pied flycatchers from Spain and collared flycatchers from Italy. The woods are full of birds, and top attractions are the pied flycatcher, spotted flycatcher, tree pipit, wood warbler and redstart. The sitar player is like a pied piper leading the dinner guests as if they were rats. The first Gambian bird I saw was pied crow, rapidly followed by small flocks of red-cheeked cordon-bleu finches. Wild creatures, such as the pied wagtail, use the longer grass for nesting. Captive breeding has created several colour variants including albino, leucistic, golden-albino, olive, melanoid, melanoid-albino and pied examples. Previous experience showed that some male pied flycatchers sing in captivity during the part of the breeding season when free-living birds are pairing. A pond near an amphitheater from Alexander the Great's time had a black-crowned night heron, a few little egrets, pied kingfishers and black-winged stilts. Unfortunately, such considerations of purpose tend to be drowned out by the alluring, sweet-sounding tune of a pied piper. Show More Sentences In 1977, gay-rights opponent Anita Bryant was pied in the face by gay-rights activists at a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. The pied flycatcher is a small, migratory, singlebrooded passerine bird. The pied flycatcher is a small Palearctic migrant passerine bird. The eggs have now hatched into four tiny pied wagtails, and Mr Thompson and his men are waiting for them to fly the nest, so the truck can go back on the road. Threatened by habitat loss due to urban growth, agriculture, and cattle grazing, the pied tamarin also moves from Endangered to Critically Endangered. Near one of the lakes I saw 8 pied kingfishers perched on the top of a date palm, it may have been the parent birds with their recently fledged young. Again the attraction is bird watching, especially pied shags feeding the young birds in their nests, great crested grebe and large numbers of paradise ducks. After word of Banks' presence spread, he became a modern-day pied piper. However, both the pied and collared flycatcher females are dull brown. Each day as we were walking we saw much wildlife including hooded plovers, pied oyster-catchers, Cape Barren geese, Bennetts wallabies and thrillingly for me, a wombat. Unperturbed, we continued our hunt for the elusive grassbird and were rewarded by our first pied triller of the day in the scrub across the creek. Birds here are diverse and include honeyeaters, pilotbirds, cockatoos, pied currawongs, white-winged choughs, and laughing kookaburras, the largest kingfisher in Australia. The site has been untouched by intensive farming methods for decades and is home to choughs, pied flycatchers, willow warblers and otters. Plants which are heavy nectar-bearers and fruit bearers may encourage territorial birds such as noisy miners and pied currawongs. The regurgitated pellets of pied currawongs for example, have been found to contain up to 23 olive seeds. The spring arrivals include two sets of ringtailed lemur twins, golden lion tamarin twins, a yellow capuchin monkey and a pied tamarin. Northern and eastern Bangladesh is home to the Asian elephant, hoolock gibbon, Asian black bear and oriental pied hornbill. The European pied flycatcher is an example of an animal species that often depends upon oak trees. The pied raven was endemic to the Faroe Islands, but has now become extinct. The European pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca also follows this migratory trend, breeding in Asia and Europe and wintering in Africa. Show More Sentences He was the pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew. Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are the pied Pipers of the Republican Party. The problem of pied piping is that sometimes a constituent that is not expected to be able to undergo wh-movement is in fact able to do so. The island also saw its first white wagtail of the year, the continental version of our pied wagtail. Predominant bird species in the country include the Australian magpie, Australian raven, the pied currawong, crested pigeons and the laughing kookaburra. The European pied flycatcher is one species that preys upon caterpillars. The wetlands are of international significance for many waterbirds including whistling ducks, sarus cranes, pied herons, brolgas and waders, Cr Pascoe said. At 6pm, Masters, rum in pocket, swaggers down the street like a dishevelled Pied Piper with about 60 young devotees straggling along behind him. Instead, like well-meaning Pied Pipers, we play our tunes hoping the children might follow us instead of the other guy taking them off the cliff. But before I get to genuflecting villagers, let me talk about my role as a Pied Piper. Like a Pied Piper for pests, Su devised a simple method to get the termites to come out of hiding. We walked through the village to another craftsman's house, a Pied Piper tail of children trailing us. It was still painful to think of the Pied Piper's disappearance, but the shock had faded to a faint ache. Pied ancient sculptures were whitened and the lushness of literature turned into Classicist sterility. The Pied Kingfisher is exceedingly common on all rivers and jhils, and is, of course, a permanent resident. In addition to the Magpie-larks, currawongs, and magpies, I saw a Little Pied Cormorant diving for fish. Which is why, on its first run, to London, it was like a blue and white Pied Piper trailing a stream of ratty hatches in its wake. No wonder a succession of diet experts have become the Pied Pipers of the modern age. Visitors to Avebury were treated to the unusual site on Sunday of a Pied Piper leading lots of mice around the village. They are famous for setting up their tents outside of small towns across Europe and drawing the local populations with a Pied Piper type parade. Show More Sentences I was invited to go to India by Nehru, who was a great lover of children, and he thought I was a kind of a Pied Piper of children in America. In a hot economy, and in the middle of a shooting war, just how many kiddies will follow this Pied Piper out of the city gates? Most were hypnotized by the bewildering magician, as if he were a Pied Piper ready to lead them off to a better world. As a result, she has become a Pied Piper of sorts, on a crusade to encourage people to document their family histories. Au Pied de Cochon is an unabashed celebration of carnivorousness. I want no philosopher queen or king, no prophet exuding revealed truth, no mesmerising Pied Piper, no hawker of appealing mirages, no self-absorbed hankerer for power. The Platinum Pied Pipers have taken music and twisted and scrunched it into Triple P to produce a refreshing, multi-talented, many-layered masterpiece of modern music. The Pied Butcher Bird is a black hooded Butcher Bird with a superb song. Detailed studies had been made by ornithologists on important keystone species like Great Pied Hornbill and Malabar Grey Hornbills in the Anamalais. The site also regularly supports breeding populations of the Kentish Plover and Pied Avocet. Let's at least pretend we plan to take up a new sport by giving a token nod with these great high-tops from Pied A Terre in on-trend silver. The abundance of all investigated bird species, except Pied Avocet, was significantly positively related with the cover of tall vegetation. Environmental ontogenic and genetic variation in egg size of Pied Flycatchers. At the headlands, summer migrants such as Redstarts, Pied Flycatchers and Tree Pipits were also to be found. Scarce birds on the Little Orme included Tree Sparrow, Pied Flycatcher, Grasshopper Warbler and Tree Pipits. This Pied a Terre Plum and Black Amber candle, PS16 has a heavenly fruity rich plum fragranced laced with sensual black amber and dark musk accords. Breeding biology of the Pied Kingfisher Ceryle rudis on Lake Victoria. Examples from Classical Literature The poor magpies found their long tails very much against them in the scramble, and it was even worse with the pied wagtail. In form and proportion the two species closely resemble each other, the pied wagtail being the smaller. The Wagtails, of which family the pied wagtail is the most familiar, derives its name from its habit of wagging its tail. His bodie was buried in an old churchyard of the pied friers, without any manner of exequies of funerall seruice doone for him. The nest resembles that of the pied wagtail, and is placed on the ground, usually in pea-fields. The cotehardie was generally made of a pied cloth in horizontal or diagonal bars, in silk or other rich fabric. I graze my splendid flocks of white lambs upon the mountains, where the green grass is pied with narcissi. I then saw that the unknown bird was simply a pied wagtail which had lost her tail! Its habits are much the same as those of the pied wagtail, but it is even lighter and more active in its movements. On this principle the Bengali name for the pied crested cuckoo is kola bulbul. Aye, this is indeed a pied merlin, and with a leveret under its claws, as I am a living woman. Both were born in Algeria, Camus to a poor pied noir family in Algiers, Daoud to a policeman. The pied flycatcher, a key target bird for the scheme, is a scarce summer migrant to the UK that winters in West Africa. We had told our two boatmen to pull us out to the pied Witch! About the middle of April, the pied wagtail begins to build its nest. I WAS glad to see the pied wagtail roosting in Tesco, Norfolk, was saved from the firing squad. I READ recently that robins, pied wagtails and starlings could be targeted for heath and safety reasons. There is also the upland oak and juniper woods of the Holystone Valley, near Rothbury, which is home to a variety of birds such as pied flycatchers and goshawks. I'll ask the people to follow you just as the children followed the Pied Piper. He would have fiddled the children of Hamelin away from the Pied Piper. Show More Sentences He walked over with the Pied Piper to where the toy maker stood. Pied Flycatchers are remarkably faithful to the same area of woodland, which requires almost unfathomable navigational skills. He played like the Pied Piper, and the entranced country danced after. Find more words! 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