Sentence examples for distinctive bird from inspiring English sources

Mutch was seen killing the distinctive bird by repeatedly striking it with a stick, the court head.

The heather and gorse were filled with the distinctive bird calls of stonechats and the rare red-legged, red-billed choughs.

The distinctive bird was first reported by two biologists monitoring terns on Penikese Island, in Buzzards Bay off Massachusetts, on May 9.

A shorelark – a distinctive bird with yellow and black markings – took a wrong turn somewhere over Norway and is getting its bearings on a beach an hour's drive north.

Four years on, even the grandest of the Olympic icons – the distinctive Bird's Nest national stadium – is struggling to fill its 80,000 seats regularly.

Ai, an outpoken critic of the Chinese government, and best known for designing China's distinctive "bird's nest" 2008 Olympic stadium, was detained for 81 days earlier this year – prompting global outrage.

The capercaillie is one of the UK's most distinctive birds, boasting a large fan-like tail and a throaty call.

Paintings by local artists depict the islands as a paradise of impossibly lush flora, exotic birds, distinctive hanging birds' nests and people happily going about their daily lives.

Then, in the mid-1980s, what we had thought was a single species was "split" in two, and birders all over Britain began looking out for this distinctive little bird.

It is a distinctive passerine bird with blue upperparts, a long, deeply forked tail and curved, pointed wings.

Our behavioural data showed that responses were more accurate and faster for birds at higher morph levels, reflecting that birds close to the prototype are more distinctive than birds close to the category boundary.