The redwoods stood like pillars holding up the black-bellied clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

I can't remember the last time I saw this many black-bellied plovers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autumn in the Dunes] Reference

The black-bellied whistling duck (D. auturunalis) seems especially promising.    From Wordnik.com.  [5 Chicken] Reference

Against the black-bellied clouds it made orange-white light and a bit of heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

The most memorable thing on the beach was hordes and hordes upon hordes of black-bellied plovers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autumn in the Dunes] Reference

Other shorebirds came and went in pairs or small groups: sanderlings, dunlin, black-bellied plovers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

On Isle Grand Terre, LSU researcher Richard Gibbons saw a black-bellied plover, a skinny-legged shorebird, with oil on its face.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Louisiana, wildlife shows effects of gulf oil spill] Reference

Not far away are the ruins of the ancient Temple to our Lady of the Rosary, now home to hundreds of black-bellied whistling ducks.    From Wordnik.com.  [San Blas, Nayarit] Reference

The glass of the window was icy to the touch, and the clouds rolled down from the mountains, black-bellied and growling with thunder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

A black-bellied plover hung around Emerson Rocks for most of the morning, feeding along the tide line and moving up the beach as the tide came in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, white ibis, great blue herons as well as black ducks, mallards and pintails have been recorded there.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference

I had the honor to communicate with Norman, a Barbados black-bellied sheep, in a demonstration consultation at a lecture sponsored by the Ohlone Humane Society.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Animals Speak] Reference

There are no more golden or black-bellied plover in these parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

She said that 10 black-bellied whistling ducks were ringed and released.    From Wordnik.com.  [newsday.co.tt] Reference

February: grey, black-bellied clouds crawling over Greffington Edge, over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference

Find a swift Yankee clipper—here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Boston Ballad, 1854] Reference

Find a swift Yankee clipper -- here is freight for you, black-bellied clipper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)] Reference

Unlike many duck species, black-bellied whistling-ducks are sexually monomorphic.    From Wordnik.com.  [xenogere] Reference

He carves them - the dowitcher, the American oystercatcher, the black-bellied plover.    From Wordnik.com.  [ Record Article Feed] Reference

It is the first confirmed sighting of a black-bellied whistling duck in South Dakota.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Of all the ducks in the Americas that one might encounter, the black-bellied whistling-duck.    From Wordnik.com.  [xenogere] Reference

"A black-bellied plover," Holbrook, a birder since age 8, says, leaning into his telescope.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

The scientific community is abuzz with news that everyone's favourite black-bellied dew-lover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

Last Friday, a whole flock of black-bellied whistling ducks were resting on one of the pond platforms.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Pitchers always are behind, especially in Arizona, where the baseballs fly like black-bellied whistling ducks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

Desmognathus abditus Anderson & Tilley, 2003 was discovered in Tennessee and the Dwarf black-bellied salamander.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Mr.A. J. Currie recently came across some eggs of the black-bellied tern that had had water sprinkled over them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference

Increasing numbers of black-bellied whistling duck and neotropic cormorants are wintering in the San Angelo area.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

The black-bellied plover or beetlehead, which occurred along the Atlantic seaboard in great numbers years ago, is now seen only as a straggler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

The black-bellied whiskered terns - small marsh dwellers with slightly forked tails - migrate to the coastal areas around Tainan and Chiayi County every winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper] Reference

Lightning flickered in black-bellied clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Burning City]

Of birds, saw the grey and black-bellied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Black-bellied clipper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference

Black-bellied plover 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

Plover, black-bellied; golden, upland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference

Black partridges were heard frequently, black-bellied tern, herons, cormorants, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference