Sentence examples for a mixed flock from inspiring English sources

Figure 8 A mixed flock of sheep and goats foraging on a phryganic community ( Sarcopoterium spinosum ) at Limnos island in the north Aegean sea.

Most northern flickers do venture south for the winter, but their downy and hairy cousins join a mixed flock of intrepid chickadees and cardinals that bravely beat their wings against the Connecticut winter.

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Oats, turnips and swedes are grown; goats, ducks, geese and chickens kept; and there is a mixed flock of sheep and Welsh black cattle.

A flock of 15,000 birds was seen in 1997, and a mixed flock with rosy bee-eater Merops malimbicus was estimated at 100,000 birds; nevertheless, due to the lack of detailed information, the species is classed by the IUCN as Data Deficient.

More than 300 birds were found with hundreds of rosy bee-eaters in the Omboué area and the newly established Iguéla National Park, and a mixed flock with rosy bee-eaters at Loango National Park in Gabon was estimated at 100,000 birds in total.

Eventually, the gay nights on Friday took off with the already popular Saturdays drawing a more mixed flock.

Reith, "his dour handsome face scarred like that of a villain in a melodrama", was "a strange shepherd for such a mixed, bohemian flock … he had under his aegis a bevy of ex-soldiers, ex-actors, ex-adventurers which … even a Dartmoor prison governor might have had difficulty in controlling".

The benefits of the mixed flock are thought to be related to predation, since many eyes are better for spotting predatory hawks and falcons.

Epidemiological investigation revealed an abortion epidemic involving 21 mixed flocks of sheep and goats in the southeastern coastal region.

In Northern Jordan, investigations revealed a seroprevalence in sheep, goat and mixed flocks of 25%, 21% and 30% respectively, for M. agalactiae, and 32%, 38%and34%4% for M. mycoides subsp. capri, suggesting that both microorganisms are widely distributed in that country and to the same extent in sheep and goats [ 7, 10].