Sentence examples for handsome bird from inspiring English sources

That is provided conservationists and farmers work together, as they have for this handsome bird.

But the male in full breeding plumage is a very handsome bird indeed.

It is a handsome bird, with scarlet flanks and rump grading into deep velvety crimson head and back.

In the mid-1980s, Mr. and Mrs. Hill gave more than 100 of their personal copies of rare and handsome bird books to Cornell.

The Hooded Grebe Podiceps gallardoi is a handsome bird of extreme southeastern South America where it inhabits remote and largely inaccessible barren lands of Patagonia.

"It's a very handsome bird," said James T. Tanner, now retired from the University of Tennessee, who in 1941 was one of the last Americans to see one.

These handsome birds are fairly sociable; although territorial during the breeding season, pairs often join with other individuals to form larger groups during the nonbreeding season.

But these handsome birds' dependence upon acorns isn't the only life history trait that makes them unique: acorn woodpeckers have a complex social structure that sets them apart from all other birds.

They are also very handsome birds, some breeds with plumage to rival even their most exotic, tropical cousins.

This handsome crested bird flies off over the water when disturbed, uttering a loud rattling call.

(She reminds me, in this respect, of a British science writer of my acquaintance, who will gladly offer a devastatingly exact account of the habits, plumage and unexpected quirks of the handsome game bird he is about, quite impeccably, to shoot).