During spring and summer you'll almost always find avocets here. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
A pale avocet, walking the shoreline, coming in from the left. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Avian species such as the blacknecked stilt, black tern, American avocet and black skimmer are relative newcomers to the area. From Wordnik.com. [Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve] Reference
Then they headed homeward along the Platte, where Jim showed Canby the marshes in which the avocet hid, and the Texan said he'd never seen such a bird and did Jim want one to stuff. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
Other waterbirds found on Lake Eyasi include yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, African spoonbill Platalea alba, avocet Recurvirostra avosetta and greyheaded gull Larus cirrocephalus. From Wordnik.com. [Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania] Reference
Once, with the fingers of his right hand, Potato made dancing little movements, mimicking the avocet, and Jim suspected that he was wishing he could move about as easily as this bird. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
Among the most abundant shorebirds in the slough are the western sandpiper, least sandpiper, marbled godwit, dowitchers, willet, American avocet, black-bellied plover, sanderling and long-billed curlew. From Wordnik.com. [Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, California] Reference
Specifically the Exe Estuary Special Protected Area (SPA) and Ramsar Site supports over 20,000 wildfowl in the winter months, including the internationally important populations of avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, dark-bellied brent goose Branta bernicla bernicla and the slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus. From Wordnik.com. [Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom] Reference
Yes, note the plural: the one avocet that was around. From Wordnik.com. [10,000 Birds] Reference
Fall migrants include hawks, swifts, avocet, phalarope and hummingbirds. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldTimesOnline.com] Reference
The avocet became the emblem of the RSPB and symbolises the bird protection movement in the. From Wordnik.com. [Wigan Today - News Feed] Reference
Wetlands provide habitat for rare birds like avocet as well as thousands of species of insects and plants. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It will also benefit sandwich terns, avocet, ruff and golden plover, and is a splendid way to spend a few euros. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online] Reference
Runners-up in abundance were the dunlin (29 percent of the total), least sandpiper (12 percent), American avocet (8 percent), and willet (6 percent). From Wordnik.com. [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference
I'm so embarrassed that my eyes were looking away from my screen when Fuzzy Dunlop's identity was established, and I didn't catch it until my second time through the series. avocet, the same thing happened to me. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference
Almost 60% of Britain's rarest birds, including once-extinct species such as the bittern, avocet and osprey, have seen their numbers increase over the past decade, a coalition of conservation groups said yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Yellowlegs, yelper, willet, marlin, dough bird, stilt, and avocet are often common, but they do not begin to be as plentiful as they are in the more fertile lands to the eastward, and the ranchmen never shoot at them or follow them as game birds. From Wordnik.com. [II. Waferfowl] Reference
Almost 60% of Britain's rarest birds, including once near-extinct species such as the bittern, avocet and osprey, have seen their numbers increase over the past decade, according to a major report from several of Britain's leading conservation groups. From Wordnik.com. [Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Shorebirds are fond of other insect pests of forage and grain crops, including the army worm, which is known to be eaten by the killdeer and spotted sandpiper; also cutworms, among whose enemies are the avocet, woodcock, pectoral and Baird sandpipers, upland plover, and killdeer. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Thousands of little egret (Egretta garzetta) and cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) winter; as well as duck species, such as mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) (42,800 in 1989), gadwall (A. strepera) (4,119 in 1985), northern shoveler (A. clypeata) (14,200 in 1991), and red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) (6,100 in 1991); and also up to 32,000 shorebirds such as avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) and black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa). From Wordnik.com. [Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests] Reference
Now, I can't tell one adult avocet from another. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
We saw here great numbers of a beautiful brown and white avocet, (the. From Wordnik.com. [Townsend Chapter 4] Reference
An avocet scarcely found worms. From Wordnik.com. [Centennial]
avocet Mining PLC, News Release, April 29, 2009 9. http://www. avocet.co.uk 10. From Wordnik.com. Reference
= American avocet. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
“yelping” avocet. From Wordnik.com. [Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter] Reference
Wilson phalarope, avocet, black-necked stilt, pectoral sandpiper, killdeer, and upland plover. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
Common tern, knot, American white pelican, Hudsonian godwit, trumpeter swan, long-billed curlew, snowy heron, Hudsonian curlew, American avocet, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, dowitcher, passenger pigeon. From Wordnik.com. [Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation] Reference
American avocet, greater yellowlegs, and dunlin had their highest counts in San Pablo Bay; black-bellied plover, black-necked stilt, lesser yellowlegs, long-billed curlew, marbled godwit, ruddy turnstone, red knot, western and least sandpipers, and dowitchers were most numerous in the South Bay, including the salt ponds. From Wordnik.com. [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference
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