Sentence examples for bird standing from inspiring English sources

"We saw a bird standing up there, pecking away at its food," Dr. Shortridge said, "and then very gently fall over, lying on its side, looking dead.

It has three branches, the Space Battle Lab (patch: "Above All Others"); the Space Warfare School (patch: image of missile shooting off lightning bolts); and, as of last October, the 527th Space Aggressor Squadron (patch: image of cartoon bird standing on a cloud tossing a missile to earth).

Another shows Picasso's prints for Buffon's great 18th-century natural history, in which vultures, for example, are described as having "the lowest instincts of greediness and voracity," as being "robbers rather than warriors," descriptions that inspired Picasso voraciously to thrust with thick inky jabs, his rapacious bird standing on a black offalic mound.

Both crakes are territorial on both the breeding and non-breeding grounds; the male threat displays involves the bird standing upright and spreading the feathers of the wings, flanks and belly like a fan.

The African crake is territorial on both the breeding and non-breeding grounds; the male threat display involves the bird standing upright and spreading the feathers of the flanks and belly like a fan to show the barred underparts.

Days later, 80 of the 100 cameras were returned -- all full of memories and many stunning, and at times, haunting images: an abandoned boot on a road in East London, picnicking people on a hot summer day, a lone bird standing on a Westminster street.

Birds standing in the middle of the road were more cautious than those at the edges and had greater FIDs.

And now when I enter the poultry yard, I feel like a one-man midway at the chicken fair, birds standing in line waiting to be picked up.

Motoring through the French countryside in a white Peugeot hatchback, they recorded the activity of birds standing on or at the edges of roads with speed limits of 20, 50, 90 and 110 kph.

On that day in the lobby, Ms. Stronk saw three of the young birds standing on the balcony's edge while the fourth bent over the remains of a pigeon, ripping off pieces of flesh with its beak.

You'll often see beavers working furiously on their dens and exotic birds standing in the shallows.