Sentence examples for these flocks from inspiring English sources

State officials will be testing these flocks for flu in coming weeks.

These flocks can include tens of thousands of birds and occasionally hundreds of thousands.

It was the size of these flocks that mattered to the forest ecosystem; animals do not exist on their own.

Long-haired, debonair and often handsome, these flocks — urban warriors who live by the board — seem oblivious to the cars rushing down North 11th Street, and to anything else, because they've landed at home base: KCDC Skateshop, a nucleus of New York's skateboarding scene.

Long-haired, debonair and often handsome, these flocks — urban warriors who live by the board — seem oblivious to the cars rushing down North 11th Street, or to anything else, because they've landed at home base: KCDC Skateshop, a nucleus of New York's skateboarding scene.

When they do, they congregate in astonishing numbers and colossal flocks can be observed, in September especially, containing more than 100,000 birds; and if you go at the right moment – when a very high tide pushes them completely off the mudflats – you can watch these flocks dance in the sky, snaking and shifting together in mesmerising co-ordinated twirls, as they move en masse on to the land.

Therefore, transmission characteristics of LPAIV within these flocks can help to understand virus circulation and possible risk of propagation.

"Different individuals within these flocks might have different ideas about where they want to go," she says "but at the same time, they want to maintain a kind of cohesive flock, because there's safety in numbers".

These flocks are commonly called murmurations.

As the breeding season nears, pairs separate out from these flocks.

These flocks are led by titmice and chickadees, with nuthatches and downy woodpeckers as common attendant species.