Sentence examples for striking bird from inspiring English sources

When we moved into our house in north Darien a few years ago, I kept noticing one particular striking bird.

The short-tailed albatross is a striking bird, with a bright pink bill, a white body and a golden-colored crown and nape.

The swallow-tailed gull (Creagrus furcatus) of the Galapagos Islands is a striking bird, the only gull with a deeply forked tail.

Despite their names they are often confused with one another, as the grey wagtail is a striking bird with plenty of lemon-yellow in its plumage.

The Judy Garland room has striking bird's-eye maple furniture and a creepy 14-inch Garland doll dressed in tails and encased in glass.

Lynette was tall, anxious, original, in her late thirties, with coffee-colored freckled skin; her hair was shaved above her ears, and the rest of it, dyed bronze and pink, was piled up in a striking bird's-nest mess, into which soft spatters of sleet blew and melted.

Indeed, in some ways, these unconventional thinkers resemble each other more than the less striking birds in-between.

A US Airways jetliner with 155 people aboard lost power in both engines, possibly from striking birds, after taking off from La Guardia Airport on Thursday afternoon.

Among the striking birds was the lilac-breasted roller, a lovely little creature (common in southern Africa) in Popsicle tones of lavender, green and turquoise.

She raises Silkies — fluffy, chestnut-brown hens that are "wonderful mothers," she said — and white-crested black Polish, striking birds with black bodies, lipstick-red wattles and elaborate white headdresses.

At close range cormorants are striking birds with glossy black feathers oiled with blue and green tints.