Sentence examples for coloured bird from inspiring English sources

It was genuinely interesting to watch her determinedly overturn the cliches, and while Pitt may have had the more successful career, Jolie was always the more interesting one, the brightly coloured bird of prey to his blond mouseburger.

Levine – a tiny, delicate woman like a brightly coloured bird in her traditional wrap skirt – is one of the half a million women raped during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, when the country's ethnic Hutus, under orders from their leaders, tried to wipe out the minority Tutsis.

But the blue manakin – a small, brightly coloured bird that lives in humid forested lowlands from northeast Argentina to southeast Brazil – takes the idea to the next level, by engaging in synchronised group performances.

The quail is a small to medium-sized, cryptically coloured bird.

The stop-frame animation features four brightly coloured bird-like creatures – Great BigHoo, Toodloo, Chickedy and Chick – against a background that is plainer than the lush world of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po.

Both male and female macaws look alike, which is uncommon among vividly coloured birds.

On the peaks above the village, paragliders can be seen riding the thermals like gaudily coloured birds of prey.

Bee-eater, any of about 25 species of brightly coloured birds of the family Meropidea (order Coraciiformes).

Nectariniidae, songbird family, order Passeriformes, consisting of the sunbirds and spider hunters, approximately 130 species of small, brilliantly coloured birds widespread throughout the warmer forests of Africa and Asia.

"There's red siskin, bearded tachuri, harpy eagle, crimson fruit crow, cock of the rock, macaw, Rio Branco ant bird," said Duane Junior when I asked him what some of the brightly coloured birds I'd seen were.

Irenidae, songbird family, order Passeriformes, consisting of the leafbirds, ioras, and fairy bluebirds, about 14 species of small brightly coloured birds of the forests and farms of southeastern Asia.