Sentence examples for flight of pigeons from inspiring English sources

When one of them spies a flight of pigeons, he signals to the others up ahead and they all wave large white cloths.

Apparently in response to his music, a flight of pigeons swirled over the building, crossed the street, curved back to the rooftop, then swept off in another direction.

A flight of pigeons..the steepness of the ramp...the gentle, rockerlike swing of the loop of the rusty chain you rested your arm upon.

A procession of the species that armies have used to carry supplies or haul guns, or fly messages or kill vermin, marches across a frieze: elephants, camels, horses, bullocks, donkeys, a flight of pigeons, a dog, a cat.

To answer this question, we used GPS technology to track the homing flights of pigeons repeatedly released from different sites either sequentially, in rotation or randomly.

Observations of the flight paths of pigeons navigating from familiar locations have shown that these birds are able to learn and subsequently follow habitual routes home.

Using micro-GPS devices attached to the birds' backs, we recorded the flight paths of pigeons repeatedly released from one of four release sites in the Oxford area, indicated in figure 1 a.

maintain a flight of carrier pigeons as part of their sales staff.

A family of polar bears stood in one corner, a young giraffe in another; a flight of white pigeons hung from the ceiling, and baby owls peered from the shelves.

Flight of the Pigeon The artist Duke Riley sets two thousand homing pigeons, outfitted with L.E.D. lights, into motion.

By Alison Bechdel Flight of the Pigeon The artist Duke Riley sets two thousand homing pigeons, outfitted with L.E.D. lights, into motion across the New York City skyline.