Sentence examples for waterbirds from inspiring English sources

An assortment of native ducks and other waterbirds populate the wetlands, and cormorants are common on the coast.

They have even been known to kill waterbirds several times their size.

Fish eagles and waterbirds, such as ducks, herons, egrets, plovers, kingfishers, and terns, are abundant.

Species of waterbirds and marsh and pasture birds are numerous.

"We want to highlight urgently the severe problems which are being faced by 50 million migratory waterbirds along that flyway, which are all losing inter tidal habitat," she said.

Bird flu, also called avian influenza, a viral respiratory disease mainly of poultry and certain other bird species, including migratory waterbirds, some imported pet birds, and ostriches, that can be transmitted directly to humans.

In general, peyotist doctrine consists of belief in one supreme God (the Great Spirit), who deals with men through various spirits, which include the traditional waterbird or thunderbird spirits that carry prayers to God.

"In one week, we'd gone from 'No problem at all' to 'You might as well give up.' " Snow, who is fifty-seven, has the dour, keen-eyed look of a large waterbird — natural enemy of snakes.

Those feet and the way she sometimes stood reminded him of a waterbird — a heron, perhaps.

The many varieties of herons who nest and forage there, and on Prall's Island and Shooters Island, have been called "the single most important colonial waterbird rookery complex in New York State".

This humble little waterbird goes quietly about its business, eking out a life on the smallest ponds, streams and ditches, while the wider world passes it by.