Sentence examples for peculiar bird from inspiring English sources

"He cannot be an albatross because he is such a peculiar bird," the Washington Post_'_s Dana Milbank wrote, summing up the position of Democratic strategists.

Ms. Nishimura sinks into Mr. Yamazaki's silky stop-and-start phrases without a ripple, unfurling her arms in unexpected parabolas as though exploring a new atmosphere, or tucking one leg into strange positions as she balances on the other like a peculiar wading bird.

This week in pictures: Subway-surfing saints in Mexico, hurricane riders in New Orleans, boogieing British policemen, and a peculiar Japanese bird with a look so piercing, it reminds you of your high-school headmistress.

Yet again – maybe you're a woman who empathises with me – I find myself to be that peculiar sort of bird uncatered for by British media who doesn't really care about a stranger who never speaks pushing one out.

Birds peculiar to freshwater and marsh regions include gallinules, ducks, geese, coots, egrets, herons, and ibises.

Like other fairywrens, the splendid fairywren is notable for several peculiar behavioural characteristics; birds are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous, meaning that although they form pairs between one male and one female, each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such trysts.

The architect Frank Lloyd Wright warned of the floo floo bird, "the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward... because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been".

One interesting aspect of reproductive behaviour in birds, possibly peculiar to them and to some mammals, is that many courtship displays are learned, or at least perfected through practice, from the parents.