Sentence examples for ouzel from inspiring English sources

There, standing out among them was a slim bird with black feathers and a clean white bib: a ring ouzel!

By legally trapping and killing stoats and foxes to ensure plentiful supplies of grouse, he helped conserve endangered birds: woodcock, snipe, golden plover, lapwing, ring ouzel, and "buckets and buckets of curlew".

It has been some years since I have seen a ring ouzel.

Emily, who kept two pet geese, copied the whinchat and ring ouzel, and a vignette of an old woman beating off geese.

He is, for example, an expert on ring ouzel dialects.

And I consider myself blessed because, for eight years, my all-time favourite bird, the ring ouzel (a blackbird-sized thrush with a white crescent on its chest), has stopped off here on its migratory path.

These sought-after ouzels live among the rusting fragments of mining, the glinting fluorspar and rocky clefts of this once industrious valley.

He introduced himself as James Anderson, a surveyor of ring ouzels for the British Trust for Ornithology.

(Blackbirds, song and mistle thrushes are residents; redwings and fieldfares are winter visitors; ring ouzels are summer migrants like swallows).

They were ring ouzels, which are the least common and least familiar of our six regularly occurring thrushes.

As a result, most British birders who see ring ouzels at all now tend to see them on the coast, on migration, and this is what happened last week.