Sentence examples for courser from inspiring English sources

Most glareolids lay two eggs, but the double-banded courser (Rhinoptilus africanus) lays only one, often located near antelope droppings, for concealment on otherwise bare ground.

John O'Donagh is a 35-year-old traveller and hare courser from Kent "For travellers, coursing is a tradition that goes back hundreds of years, since the days we lived in tents, before wagons and caravans.

Some resembled their natural counterparts, speckled like the eggs of the brown noddy or the cream-colored courser.

As far as he could tell, there was no formal description of a Jerdon's courser egg anywhere and not a single other specimen on record.

A colleague Stuart Piertney took scrapings from the membrane lining the inside the mystery egg and shavings from a toe-pad from one of the two courser skins.

Name: ABDUZ: 70169 Species: Rhinoptilus bitorquatus Dates: 1917 Claim to fame: The only known egg of Jerdon's courser Where now: Zoology Museum, University of Aberdeen Alan Knox was checking museum's store room for insects when he found the egg.

A deal done over a three-courser is a deal done slowly, with time for thought and detail and verbal small print.

I rarely finish a good three-courser feeling anything other than comfortably satisfied.

Eyre also cast Campbell as Knock'em the horse-courser in Bartholomew Fair and Subtle in The Alchemist; never was an actor more perfectly equipped for the wild excesses and linguistic relish in rare Ben Jonson.

Most pratincoles and coursers nest like plovers.

Coursers and pratincoles (Glareolidae) are insectivorous birds of open country.