Sentence examples for digging a burrow from inspiring English sources

It nests in clifftop colonies, digging a burrow in which a single white egg is laid.

One individual dug a burrow only at low temperatures; at high temperatures it sheltered beneath a leaf or rock.

The female digs a burrow in well drained soil, stings a cicada until it ceases to struggle, places it in the bottom of the burrow, lays her eggs on the cicada, covers the burrow, and dies.

The oldfield mouse digs a burrow that would make the gang from Ocean's Eleven proud.

Adults moult annually, and dig a burrow up to 1 m long in which to hide while vulnerable.

Those that live on land such as the American toad (Bufo americanus) dig a burrow and make a hibernaculum in which to lie dormant.

The western spotted frog (Heleioporus albopunctatus) digs a burrow beside a river or in the bed of an ephemeral stream and regularly emerges to forage.

Ground hogs will move stones and sticks and re-dig a burrow entrance.

Where other occupants are present, the petrels dig a side burrow or use an existing low-roofed tunnel which the larger birds or rabbits cannot easily enter.

For example, the common, or green, iguana (I. iguana) digs a deep burrow with a combination of its fore- and hind limbs; this chamber is often so deep that the female is totally hidden from view.

Mr. Winton uses gas (Cyanogas), & poisoned bait (Red Squill or Antu), no trap One time they dug open a burrow to see how many rats they had gassed.