Sentence examples for marvellous bird from inspiring English sources
"I am a fisherman myself, but all my fish become symbols, alas!" Bishop, who was staying at the time in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, had written to Lowell of the region's marvellous bird life, "auks and the only puffins left on the continent, or so they tell us... real ravens on the beach... enormous, with sort of rough black beards under their beaks".
Kayak puffin patrols at Herm run April-June, £35pp, or boat trips cost £29.50 Ornithologists are reluctant to reveal where, precisely, breeding hen harriers can be spotted: this marvellous bird's existence is threatened constantly by egg collectors and misguided gamekeepers.
(3+) And now that the Easter chicks have flown, there are two marvellous books, including birds of every feather, to detain us.
Highly poisonous to birds and a marvellous example of warning colouration.
"I think sorrow is a predatory thing because birds scream at dawn with a marvellous terror, and there is, as I have said before, a deathly bitterness in the smell of ponds and ditches".
"How marvellous it is that one of the planet's heaviest flying birds, perhaps the heaviest, once again breeds on British soil," he says.
5-7), has it all: circle dances, fluttering birds, kisses, boys socking each other in the face, all performed by the marvellous Mark Morris Dance Group, to the sounds of a glorious Handel oratorio, courtesy of the Orchestra of St . Lukes.
Scientific illustration is already one of the most difficult artforms, requiring years of practice to hone not to mention putting a bird on it is no cakewalk so the fact that each bird is drawn to scale, from the miniscule marvellous spatuletail hummingbird, to the 30' Yutyrannus ("feathered tyrant") dinosaur, makes it all the more impressive. .
Marvellous, marvellous, absolutely splendid.
