Sentence examples for flush birds from inspiring English sources

Some public officials have also contemplated using drones to flush birds and other animals from sensitive areas, such as airports, or to perform precision crop dusting and targeted irrigation.

MPs will debate the issue of grouse shooting on Monday, as the result of an official petition backed by more than 120,000 people which demands a ban on driven shooting, where beaters flush birds towards the guns.

They were bred as gun dogs; to use their sense of smell to cover low areas near the handler in order to flush birds into the air to be shot, and to use their eyes and nose to locate the bird once downed, and then to retrieve the bird with a soft mouth.

Because grassland birds are difficult to detect when not singing we employed a rope drag technique in which a 25m-long rope connecting two observers was dragged across vegetation to flush birds, increasing their visual detectability and the likelihood of birds to produce species-specific vocalizations that could be used in identification.

By their presence and obstinacy, birdwatchers affect the attractiveness of the breeding, migration or roosting sites for birds, flush birds, and otherwise increase the pressure on birds and their habitats (e.g., luring birds out of their hideouts and stressing them by playing their calls or exposing birds and their nests to predators).

In unison, we wheeled and fired, like grouse hunters pointing and shooting at the sound of flushing birds.

If your dog is a pointer or flushes birds, play hide and seek.

Cocker spaniel, either of two breeds of sporting dogs used by hunters to flush game birds from cover; it is also trained to retrieve.

For Mark Lazarus, the chairman of the NBC Sports Group, quail hunting offers a consuming escape — walking through fields with his sons, friends or colleagues, along with the pointers that flush the birds into the sky.

The sound of gunfire soon filled the park as sharpshooters on the opposite side of the swamp began flushing the birds from the mangroves.

He wears glasses except to shoot, and has a bird dog so reliable that "when she was pointing a covey he patiently removed his glasses, slipped them into his pocket, and then flushed the birds".