Sentence examples for true bird from inspiring English sources

Mr. Keith was a true bird fanatic.

The lack of convincing evidence of true bird fossils prior to the Tertiary has suggested that birds did not coexist with dinosaurs.

But recent fossil finds cast doubt on this interpretation: Archaeopteryx may be only a birdlike dinosaur rather than a dinosaurlike true bird.

But recent fossil finds question whether it was a birdlike dinosaur rather than a dinosaurlike member of the true bird lineage.

The 125-acre estuary in San Jose del Cabo, the only true bird sanctuary on the Baja peninsula, holds white-winged doves, vermillion flycatchers, macaws, hummingbirds and more than 100 other species.

The genera Jinfengopteryx and Rahonavis were also called birds, then not, and two odd critters Epidexipteryx and Epidendrosaurus were though to be close to birds and have now moved quite a way across the tree, while even Archaeopteryx was briefly considered to perhaps be an independent line of flying dinosaurs that was not a true bird.

The apps can all but replace the stacks of ornithology guidebooks you'd need for a true birding education.

True, birds are living dinosaurs and a glorious collection of fossils makes this feathered revolution abundantly clear, but a chickadee is no stand-in for a Dreadnoughtus.

True, birds fall from the skies, plants wilt, sunny California is blanketed with snow and eventually the failing magnetic field allows deadly radiation to flood the earth.

Instead, he envisaged a protobird covered with both scales and feathers that would eventually give rise to true birds in all their feathered glory.

Dr. Erickson said, "From these findings, we see that the physiological and metabolic transition into true birds occurred millions of years after Archaeopteryx.