Sentence examples for groups of ducks from inspiring English sources

Woking at dusk is a surprisingly magical place: reeds sigh in the breeze by the Bourne and groups of ducks swoop down onto the water but no owls reveal themselves.

This is a useful indication of duck preferences for water depth, but not a definitive measure because observations of bathing behaviour suggested that pools of different depths were used in different ways (30 cm pools were more suitable for swimming, but more dabbling was performed in the 10 cm pools than in deeper pools) and because not all groups of ducks made the same choices.

As a whole, we found that general activity was reduced in disturbed groups of ducks during increased predation risk events, as previously observed in other species (reviewed in [2], [7]).

There was no significant difference in numbers of cfu evident between the two groups of ducks overall (P = 0.73).

It also allows assessment of the extent to which there are duck associated Campylobacter genotypes and whether these are robust to the different ecology of these genetically similar groups of ducks.

Every day, a group of ducks would walk from the lake to his front yard, and he'd feed them.

One of those people who used to wait and watch for clients described the scene as "(we were) just like a group of ducks crouching under someone else's roof".

Calls are to be employed when you've spotted a group of ducks flying overhead and you want to attract them to land as close as possible to your position.

Due to a supply problem, only two groups of tufted ducks were available for this study.

In this study, viral shedding was not completely suppressed in any of the groups of wood ducks pre-exposed to a LPAI virus, contrary to what was observed in a previous experimental investigation with mallards [17].

20 ducks, except the mock infection control group of 8 ducks, were challenged with 10 Eintranasallysally, intratracheally, and intraocularly of HPAI A/Vietnam/1203/2004 (H5N1) in PBS.