Magpie Sentence Examples

He calls me a chatterer, although he himself is more talkative than a magpie."

It's distinction as a symbol for happiness is simply because the pronunciation of the word, Magpie, in Chinese is similar to the pronunciation of the word "happiness."

In the butterfly copse (near the Waterworks Road) (TQ 209 063) a Magpie Moth made a brief appearance.

Yet the magpie approach doesn't sound stupidly disjointed as it can in the wrong hands.

Magpie killer Autumn 2003 Magpies have been persecuted by gamekeepers for the past 250 years.

Also, a means of implementing an " idle timeout " mechanism, similar to that of Magpie, has yet to be found.

There are also two species of owl, three species of sea-mew, the stockdove, quail, raven, magpie, chaffinch, goldfinch, blackcap, canary, titmouse, blackbird, house-swallow, &c. As to the insects, mention may be made of a species of gnat or mosquito which is sometimes troublesome, especially to strangers.

Magpie Tanager - Cissopis leveriana At Iguazu up to 3 were recorded daily on five dates.

A favorite is D'Arenberg's Laughing Magpie wine, which is a Rhone-style blend of Shiraz and Viognier.

Laughing Magpie is usually under $20 per bottle, and it is consistently good from vintage to vintage.

The word pica comes from the Latin name for magpie, a bird known for its unusual and indiscriminate eating habits.

For example, if a magpie caws outside your home, then it's a sign or omen that someone will soon arrive with good news that will make you very happy.

Starlings (muku-dori) are numerous, and so are the wagtail (sekirei), the swallow (tsubame) the martin (ten), the woodchat (mozu) and the jay (kakesu or kashi-dori), but the magpie (tOgarasu), though common in China, is rare in Japan.

Among birds are found bustard and species of sand-grouse and partridge; water-fowl in great variety, which breed on the lakes in summer and migrate to the plains of India in winter; the raven, hawks, eagles and owls, a magpie, and two kinds of chough; and many smaller birds of the passerine order, amongst which are several finches.

Among gallinaceous birds besides the red-legged partridge, which is met with everywhere on the steppes, there are found also the Pterocles alchita and P. arenarius; and among the birds of other orders are the southern shrike (Lanius meridianalis), the Spanish sparrow (Passer cyaneus), and, the blue magpie (Cyano pica cooki).

Wild birds are not very common; among them are the hawk, parrot, owl, woodpecker, kingfisher, green pigeon, African magpie, the honey-sucker and canary.

Among the birds of the island are the eagle, hawk, petrel, owl, finch, peewit, diamond bird, fire-tail, robin, emu-wren, crow, swallow, magpie, blackcap, goatsucker, quail, ground dove, parrot, lark, mountain thrush, cuckoo, wattlebird, whistling duck, honeybird, Cape Barren goose, penguin duck, waterhen, snipe, albatross and laughing jackass.

The woodcock, partridge, hawk, water-ousel, magpie, jay, raven, various kinds of owls, wood-pigeon, golden-crested wren, tufted lark and titmouse are among the birds which breed here.

Rooks (Corvus frugilegus) and the Australian "magpie" or piping crow (Gymnorhina) are to be found in New Zealand, but only locally, especially the former.

Among land birds may be enumerated several varieties of eagle, vulture, falcon, owl, crow, jay, magpie, stork, quail, thrush, dove, &c. Pheasants are easily acclimatized; grouse and woodcock are indigenous on the uplands of the north; partridges, in all districts.