Sentence examples for scarce birds from inspiring English sources

In studies by Askins in Connecticut, power line corridors provide habitat for now scarce birds like the brown thrasher and the yellow-breasted chat (a state endangered species).

Thursley Common, near Godalming in Surrey, was thought to have lost much of its specialised heathland wildlife in the blaze which swept across its 400 acres, home to scarce birds such as Dartford warblers, nightjars and woodlarks, and a stronghold of the very rare silver-studded blue butterfly.

One of Britain's scarcest birds is also one of its most beautiful.

Early winter was exceptionally harsh, which meant that natural food was scarce and birds moved in on berries that would normally last further into winter.

As well as changes in migration patterns, the research has concluded the number of scarce migrant birds arriving in Scotland from Eastern Europe and Siberia in the autumn has risen sharply over the last 60 years and is continuing to do so.

The wetlands are important for wildlife, including some scarce breeding birds such as pied avocets, western marsh harriers, Eurasian bitterns and bearded reedlings.

The reserve is important for some scarce breeding birds, such as pied avocets on the islands, and western marsh harriers, Eurasian bitterns and bearded reedlings in the reeds.

Buzzards, peregrines and sparrowhawks had been poisoned and persecuted, ospreys were confined to the wilds of Scotland, and hobbies were one of our scarcest breeding birds.

They include scarce varieties of birds, plants, animals and fish as well as whimsical toy elephants and frogs in playgrounds.

As winter comes, food becomes scarce, and water birds migrate to the tropics, where the rainy season has caused food production to increase to optimal levels.

In the hinterlands of New Mexico where I live, women in veils are as scarce as dodo birds.