Sentence examples for shorebirds from inspiring English sources
Most have put out snout-like siphons to feed, or rather to purge what impurities they had ingested in their adolescence on the city's tideflats.Along the strand, there are too few shorebirds: some solitary sandpipers, least timid of the waders, but that is it.
Yet the physical changes that go with affluence destroy the habitats of migratory shorebirds and seabirds, wreaking havoc on their numbers along the crucial East Asian-Australasian flyway.
Hong Kong's current chief executive lists birding as his chief passion.The first reserve on the China coast properly to protect migrating shorebirds and waterfowl was set up in 1975 in Hong Kong, at Mai Po, and is now run by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
The prey includes ducks and shorebirds.
Pelicans and other shorebirds are common.
The extensive areas of lakes, ponds, and wetlands especially in the glaciated part of the taiga provide a large habitat for waterfowl and shorebirds, although the birds primarily occur in low densities across the landscape.
The shorebirds lie between the other suborders in flight adaptations; their wings are not adapted for soaring, but they are strong fliers and cover great distances in continuous flight.
The common reef heron is a native shorebird.
They suspect that this cost is balanced by the benefit of reduced nest predation; the Arctic tundra a preferred shorebird breeding region supports lower predator population densities than areas farther south, and thus greater numbers of newly hatched young survive to adulthood.
In addition, there are the incredibly bizarre communal dances of the birds of paradise; the jungle-floor dancing of the cock of the rock; the pasture display grounds of the shorebird, the ruff; and the forest arenas cleared for displaying purposes by the tiny manakins.
Preparations for long-distance flights demand a great part of the shorebird's year, and birds nesting on Alaska's northern coasts begin to form migration flocks as early as late June.
