Swifts Sentence Examples

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  • Robins, bluebirds, warblers, chickadees, finches, vireos, wrens, yellow-headed blackbirds, nutcrackers, nuthatches, meadow-larks, sparrows, woodpeckers, swifts, kingbirds and several other species of small birds are found in the park, but the number of each is not great.

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  • On the east coast peafowl are found, and throughout the interior the argus pheasant, the firebacked pheasant, the blue partridge, the adjutantbird, several kinds of heron and crane, duck, teal, cotton-teal, snipe, wood-pigeon, green-pigeon of several varieties, swifts, swallows pied-robins, hornbills, parakeets, fly-catchers, nightjars, and many other kinds of bird are met with frequently.

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  • The Aegithognathae, meant to comprise the passeres, woodpeckers and swifts, &c., are really schizognathous but with a vomer which is broadly truncated in front.

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  • For the rest his classification demands no particular remark; but that in a work of this kind he had the courage to recognize, for instance, such a fact as the essential difference between swallows and swifts lifts him considerably above the crowd of other ornithological writers of his time.

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  • He receives the raw silk in hanks as it is taken from the reel of the filature, and putting it on a light reel of a similar construction, called the swifts, FIG.

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  • Frog-mouths, bee-birds, night-hawks and swifts are found in considerable variety.

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  • Several kinds of swifts and nightjars are found, and gorgeously-coloured trogons, bee-eaters, rollers, and beautiful kingfishers and barbets are common.

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  • The Swifts went from basically an allover green, to an allover green, to an allover green with a broad cream band across the middle.

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  • Overhead, Ravens may soar by while Swifts, Sand Martins and other early autumn migrants are already heading south.

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  • On the field the Swifts players leaped about like winning cup finalists, joined at the final whistle by their slightly screwy manager.

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  • The few common swifts can be awkward to pick out and House Martins from above can look remarkably White-rumped and swifty!

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  • Last night, and indeed the night before, saw us visited by a few little swifts on their way somewhere.

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  • By the end of April, the first Swifts may have arrived in the far south of the country.

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  • The few common Swifts can be awkward to pick out and House Martins from above can look remarkably White-rumped and swifty !

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  • Last night, and indeed the night before, saw us visited by a few little Swifts on their way somewhere.

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