Sentence examples for birds of which from inspiring English sources

There are more than 100 known species of birds, of which only a portion, including four species of petrels and two of shearwaters, breed regularly.

She was looking for birds, of which there were few, but the setting provided compensation: the sky marbled with clouds and light, the water a pale metallic blue, the wild grasses a seductive burnt orange.

Singapore is the stand-out example, a city in which it's possible to twitch some 347 native birds, of which 12 are on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

They have been known to lay eggs in the nests of more than 200 species of birds, of which 140 species are known to have raised nestling cowbirds at the expense of their own young.

Throughout, Hitchcock delves into the enormously complicated technical fine points of his productions — as, for instance, in the concert-hall scene in the original "Man Who Knew Too Much," the carousel scene of "Strangers on a Train," and much of "The Birds," of which he says, "There are 371 trick-shots in it, and the most difficult one was the last shot.

We registered 39 species of birds of which 15 were migratory.

The task of protecting a bird of which almost nothing is known can be dumbfounding.

There is so much going on here, horticulturally, that you have to concentrate just to listen to the birds -- of which there are 152 species, protected by the World Wildlife Fund sanctuary that surrounds the garden.

It also is home to hundreds of species of birds, some of which are rare.

They caught 10 of the birds, 6 of which later died of disease.

Our room was decorated with wicker and large prints of birds, some of which are native to the Outer Banks.