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There is an early legend that swallows and swifts hibernated in caves or clefts in the rocks.
Long wings, forked tails and swooping graceful flight usually identify swallows.
A glossy ibis waded between the bulrushes and black swallows dipped in and out of the water.
Before fall migration, swallows gorge themselves on insects and bayberries.
The roses bloomed, swallows skimmed low and the breeze swished the treetops.
Robins, song sparrows, vesper sparrows, and swallows are not absent, except as breeding birds.
Song birds tweeted in the tall trees above our heads, and swallows glided on the air, breezing above our heads.
When eating solid food, patients may have difficulty chewing and initiating swallows.
Parent tree swallows deliver food to nestlings in a bolus, making it difficult to determine either the quantity or quality of food.
House sparrows and starlings seem to not care for the design of the house but tree swallows, bluebirds, chickadees and wrens really like it.
Woodpeckers, screech owls, chickadees, nuthatches, bluebirds, tree swallows and some flycatchers need them.
I also have to get CT scans and immediately think of the big machine that swallows you up whole, causing big-time claustrophobia.
Cliff swallows are highly colonial passerines that breed throughout most of western North America.
As a means of escape from his convalescence he began learning about birds and watched swallows and swifts returning from Africa.
Birds make territorial calls, swifts and swallows fly by, and then, bats emerge.
It occurs when a person eats or swallows something that has been infected with the entamoeba histolytica parasite.
Some species, like swallows and house martins, are in decline and this exercise will help assess the state of their insect food source.
In dry conditions when wet mud is difficult to obtain swallows will take over old nests of other birds including house martins and blackbirds.
Montezuma offers a much greater diversity of birds, including various swallows, sparrows, and songbirds not mentioned here.
We also saw collared doves, wood pigeons, barn swallows and a red-wattled plover.
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In all these quatrains there is nothing but white swallows and blue lotus flowers.
Probably the swallows were nesting in the cenote although the nests were inaccessible to view.
Then another bunch comes up and she chews that and swallows it, and so she does until all the grass is chewed up fine.
Always, from dawn to dewfall, the world about little Chebeague is full of swallows that dart and soar and flit like shadows.
The Indians claim that if a snake swallows the horned lizard whole, the lizard will immediately work his way through the snake.
The swallows dart to and fro, and clouds of gnats dance like thistledown in the air.
Every time a man swallows an oyster, he has evidence that the Noachian deluge did not take place.
The earliest to arrive, often preceding the swallows, appear to be the wheatear and the willow-wren.
And where'er the swallows flew, and where'er the roses bloomed, he was famed and revered and beloved, and his songs were sung.
And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds and all the swallows!
Here is one theory that swallows up and annihilates all others.
One day an immense flight of swallows came and settled on kans rice-field.
He suddenly ceased talking and reached for the water, taking several large swallows.
In the spring swallows, martins, warblers and cuckoos cause much excitement and comment, in the autumn redwings and fieldfares much less so.
I want to fly away at once, as those swallows fly, and go in at that splendid gate.
You would think that you could walk dry under it to the opposite hills, and that the swallows which skim over might perch on it.
In fact, the infusorian simply swallows whatever happens to hit his mouth.
But there are plenty of large black and white magpies, large crows, jackdaws, swallows, titlarks, starlings and cuckoos.
It was in vain that the Houndsditch backs and halfbacks skimmed like swallows about the field.
Evidence for convergent evolution in gape morphology of the Bat Hawk with swifts, swallows, and goatsuckers.
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