Sentence examples for dunnock from inspiring English sources

A dunnock!" and "Where do you want your onions?" and "The head's the wrong way round!" pass as conversation.

In spring the dunnock takes part in communal displays in which two or more birds hop around in vegetation or on the ground, flick their wings, and utter staccato calls.

Gentes are not given taxonomic designations but are sometimes known by their host species ("redstart cuckoo," "dunnock cuckoo," etc).. Evidence for this theory is largely circumstantial because of the difficulty in establishing the identity of individual cuckoos, but no plausible alternative theory has been proposed.

Found over much of Europe, as well as Lebanon, Turkey, northern Iran, and the Caucasus, the dunnock usually lives in scrub, heathland, mixed woodland, and hedgerows; occasionally it lives on coastal cliffs and dunes.

Birds breeding include skylark, cuckoo, song thrush, spotted flycatcher, dunnock, house sparrow, linnet, and bullfinch.

Among all the robins, I've already heard the first dunnock, sounding like a shopping trolley being wheeled along, and the first song thrush, which was a genuine thrill.

Covering the same markings on the sparrowhawk had no such effect, but adding them to the dove caused the tits to treat the dove as they would a sparrowhawk or a cuckoo.The authors argue that actual cuckoo hosts, such as meadow pipits, dunnocks and reed warblers, may have directed the evolution of the cuckoo's resemblance to hawks by attacking cuckoos that approached their nests.

The four major host species for cuckoos in Britain are meadow pipits (Anthus pratensis), reed warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), pied wagtails (Motacilla alba yarrellii), and dunnocks (Prunella modularis).

Examples of sperm competition in polygynandrous vertebrates are found in dunnocks (Prunella modularis) and acorn woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus).

In dunnocks, a common English backyard bird, males peck at the female's cloaca.

Dunnocks are noted for an exceptionally flexible mating and territorial system that reflects food density.