Sentence examples for birds point from inspiring English sources

Across the river in Missouri, Ellenann Howton said she feared her 90-acre spread would be "washed away" if the corps breached the Birds Point levee.

The levee at Birds Point has been breached only once before, during the flood of 1937, when waters at Cairo reached 59.5 feet.

The Army Corps blew a two-mile hole in the Birds Point levee on May 2nd, and opened Bonnet Carré a week later.

They will arrive at the Birds Point levee, where the explosives will be loaded into three sets of pipe spanning 11,000 feet buried in the soil.

From the birds' point of view, the 17,000 acres of crawfish ponds around Lake Martin provide a smorgasbord of small fish, snails, aquatic insects, frogs and crawfish.

In order to alleviate the volume of floodwaters acting on downstream levees and to stop flooding near Cairo, IL, the US Army Corps . of Engineersactivated the Birds Point New Madrid Floodway by intentionally breaching the Birds Point Levee, releasing floodwaters onto active agricultural fields.

The other two are Birds Point-New Madrid, in south-eastern Missouri just below the confluence of the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and Bonnet Carré, just above New Orleans.

As tornadoes stormed across the Deep South this week, Missouri officials sued to block the corps from moving forward with the plan to swamp the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway.

Inundating the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway — a move that had been employed only once before, in 1937 — was an extraordinary measure in response to record flooding, and it was intended to save property and lives on a grand scale.

Dr Ian Burfield, global science coordinator at Birdlife International which carried out the study for IUCN, said the threat to these birds pointed to a wider environmental challenge.

And, a 100 years later, the naturalist and clergyman William Bingley devised an assessment table, giving birds points for "melodiousness of tone", "sprightliness", "plaintiveness", "compassion" and "execution".