Within the olive grove patches, larger and brachypterous species were associated to plots with more dense vegetation cover while macropterous and small-sized species were more associated to open areas.
Those who shot an "expert" score on Dailey's qualification test would become "riflemen," as designated by olive-green patches.
The rivers and rainwater have receded, but the region is now haunted by small olive-drab patches of water here and there; puddled in a child's splash pool, trapped in a trash can, or cupped in fallen magnolia leaves.
Here, the Colombian Amazon is pocked with dead scabs: olive-gray patches sown in wispy coca shrubs, brown scars where the planes have fumigated with glyphosate, and charred black holes where campesinos continue to advance into the forest.
We evaluated the effects on birds of managing patches of olive groves and riparian galleries to promote heterogeneity of these systems in Portugal.
The Brother's Island tuatara (S. guntheri) has olive brown skin with yellowish patches, while the colour of the other species, (S. punctatus), ranges from olive green through grey to dark pink or brick red, often mottled, and always with white spots.
Olive-green plumage patches (the back in the three species) derive their colour by depositing yellow carotenoids (presumably the same as in yellow plumage) on melanized grey feathers [ 41].
I see youth from the cities returning to orange or olive farming on their parents' patch of land.
Among rose gardens, olive groves and a vegetable patch lies a 27-room hotel (built in the Berber rammed earth style known as pisé) with two good restaurants, several pools (including one for children), an artisan workshop offering pottery classes for children, two tennis courts and a spa.
They had planned to plant olive tree saplings on a patch of land near the Jewish settlement of Shiloh, which Palestinians believe has been earmarked for annexation by Israel.
