Sentence examples for ice birds from inspiring English sources
Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically that Mediterranean harbors were covered with ice, birds literally dropped out of the sky, and "frost fairs" were erected on a frozen Thames-with kiosks, taverns, and even brothels that become a semi-permanent part of the city.
Climate change has melted the ice pack food source of Arctic ice birds from seven miles to 250 miles away from them and made their nesting habitat, Cooper Island, a prime target for hungry polar bears.
Climate change has melted the ice pack food source of Arctic ice birds from 7 miles to 250 miles away from them and made their nesting habitat, Cooper Island, a prime target for hungry polar bears.
A sound installation of cracking ice, bird cries and gusting wind completes the picture.
For the next several months, my wife and I stepped on rubber black and white birds with the occasional "ice" bird thrown in the mix.
Rejection reasons include interference by wave water, riming, icing, birds and maintenance.
"Without enough sea ice, these birds can't reach what must be very productive areas of the ocean," Fraser said.
Ice snaps, birds cry and once in a fabulous while, a glacier or an iceberg calves with a sound like the end of time.
The natural symphony at dusk is a blend of cracking ice, chattering birds and surging water -- all a harbinger of the glory still to come.
To lower the risk of predation, and to save the brightest daylight hours for fishing out on the sea ice, the birds show up on Cooper only at night, usually sometime after 12, and roost on the north side of the island's main pond, calling to each other with a high-pitched, melancholy whistle.
After bumping over frozen ruts in lanes bordered by frost-decorated hedges, I reached the mere, only to find the fog hanging in a dense curtain; indistinct lumps on the water, just beyond the fringe of ice, were birds, but what kinds it was almost impossible to tell.
