Sentence examples for bird from inspiring English sources

This is as good a time to be a British wild bird as any in the last century.

The puffin seems eminently suitable to be our national bird: a dapper little character who is equally at home on sea or land, given to hedonistic feasting when the seasons allow, but also capable of austere self-denial (they spend their winters out in the North Atlantic).

Other options for active visitors include snorkelling – try Deep Bay, where there is a 100-year-old wreck; diving at Cades Reef (jollydive.com); exploring old fortifications such as Fort Berkeley; and taking the ferry to neighbouring Barbuda to see the frigate bird colony, caves and pink-sand beaches.

A male hen harrier's silhouette gliding low over the moorland is an eerie sight greatly prized by bird lovers, but the bird is best known for its aerobatic displays of climbing, twisting and rolling, known as sky dancing.

He had been anxious to foster good relations between the grouse shoot, bird lovers and the local community.

You'd have to be pretty naive to say a gamekeeper has never killed a bird of prey but to generalise and say, 'It's gamekeepers' is simply not fair".

Sergei Golovkin, head of the Maltese government's wild-bird regulation unit, said there was "an element of hypocrisy" in international criticism.

But the rules still demand bird-by-bird inspection "on the line" with inspectors or assistants checking the body, offals and cavities.

Still popular at The Seafood Restaurant, this salad is hot with bird-eye chilli, but it needs to be for the correct balance of flavour.

The scientists and local bird-lovers who had worked so hard to protect them were convinced someone had deliberately shot these birds out of the sky.

Hen harrier campaigners including Mark Avery were convinced that these were not the authentic concerns of bird-lovers but the increasingly rattled shooting industry: Botham runs a grouse shoot in North Yorkshire; the Mail on Sunday's editor-in-chief, Paul Dacre, also owns a grouse moor in Scotland.