Sentence examples for perched on a branch from inspiring English sources

Just overhead was a majestic bald eagle perched on a branch.

During the middle of the day, Sungrebes may rest perched on a branch just above the water.

Just the occasional kingfisher perched on a branch, seabirds diving for bait and intermittent splashes that indicate big redfish.

One night, pushing through dense foliage at the dead end of Huntington Street, he spied a snowy egret perched on a branch, staring out over a motionless canal.

In Verdi Park, at Broadway and 72nd Street, if you follow the statue of Verdi's gaze about 20 feet upward into the trees in front of it, you will spot a large fake owl perched on a branch.

It turned out that a yellow-throated songbird known as a Nashville warbler, in its northward migration, had made a pit stop in the neighborhood and was perched on a branch.

In his memoir "Dog Heart," the South African writer, painter and longtime anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach told the story of a grandfather who spent his days in a pepper tree, staring off into the distance; young Breyten took him his morning mug of coffee, and everyone in the family pretended it was normal for someone to perch on a branch 10 feet off the ground.

Some species perch-glean, perching on a branch watching for prey and snatching it by reaching forward, where others sally from a perch and snatch prey on the wing.

Perched on a low branch in one last ray of light, was a huge bird with a red bill.

All mammals, birds and reptiles engage in some form of sleep, Dr. Rechtschaffen noted in a 1998 paper, even if they do it perched on a tree branch or, like the dolphin, while swimming, with one half of the brain at a time.

He comes upon an obviously fake little bird perched on a low branch.