Sentence examples for uncommon bird from inspiring English sources

We kept a wary eye for a black-backed woodpecker, an uncommon bird that irrupts into burned areas, but saw only flickers.

Nightingale, "singer of the night," began in Middle English as thename of a small, inconspicuous, and not uncommon bird with asingularly sweet song.

In spite of these differences, kindredwas a word we often felt and used.The man was shy, though came to lifewhen he spotted an uncommon bird,and the woman lively, sometimes even funnyabout barometer readings and sudden dipsin pressure, the general state of things.We liked their affection for each otherand for dogs.

He had received his Iron Cross, First Class (most uncommon for an NCO) from another rare bird: First Lieutenant Hugo Guttmann, a Jewish officer.

Such a dramatic change in the Tas2r repertoire size may not be uncommon in birds with the increasing number of additional avian genomes being deciphered.

This is not uncommon in birds, as a review of 21 empirical studies based on 17 species reveals that polygynous males lost greater WPP compared to monogamous males in seven species, while only in one species was the reverse pattern reported (Table  3).

In summary, melioidosis is uncommon in wild birds but occurs in captive or exotic birds brought to melioidosis-endemic locations.

Being on the edge of Dartmoor, where big buzzards and falcons are not uncommon other wild birds often fly nearby.

"They were dive-bombing me, and flying at me, and perching and looking at me," she said, describing behavior known as mobbing that is not uncommon in small birds, according to Mr. Phillips.

That deep response of personal identification, for better or worse, hasn't been uncommon as These Birds Walk makes the rounds of the film-festival circuit, including a stop this week at Toronto's Hot Docs, en route to theaters everywhere in August.

However, this lifestyle is uncommon among modern birds, crocodiles, and other reptiles, and the taphonomic evidence suggesting mammal-like pack hunting in such theropods as Deinonychus and Allosaurus can also be interpreted as the results of fatal disputes between feeding animals, as is seen in many modern diapsid predators.