As a matter of fact, the winter home of the wheatear is Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Of old the best wheatear country was above Rottingdean; but the South. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Down shepherds no longer have the wheatear money that used to add so appreciably to their wages in the summer months. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Now, though, the sun shone through the haze and the wheatear flew off over the leaning moor to join a single glider high overhead. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: North Derbyshire] Reference
Тhere are many rock birds such as rock nuthatch (Sitta neumayer), wallcreeper (Tichodroma muraria), pied wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka). From Wordnik.com. [Gissaro-Alai open woodlands] Reference
Hence his references to Celsus and Hippocrates and his ingenious etymologies of wheatear and samphire, more ingenious in the second case than sound. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
As I traversed the northern flank of Offerton Moor, across acres of prostrate bracken stalks that are the legacy of last year's growth, a wheatear flitted by. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: North Derbyshire] Reference
A contemporary of Fuller, John Taylor, from whom I have already quoted, and shall quote again, thus unscientifically dismisses the wheatear in one of his doggerel narratives. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The price of each wheatear was a penny, and it was the custom of the persons in the neighbourhood who wanted them for dinner to visit the traps, take out the birds and leave the money in their place. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
There are also a number of desert-adapted birds that are found in the area, such as thick-billed lark (Ramphocoris clotbey), desert wheatear (Oenanthe deserti) and red-rumped wheatear (Oenanthe moesta). From Wordnik.com. [Saharan halophytics] Reference
A few days 'sunshine and the first wheatear appears. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
Northern wheatear visits area and preserve gets new name. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories] Reference
While talking, a wheatear flew past, and alighted near the path -- a place they frequent. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
There is not a quail, not a blackbird, not the smallest rabbit nor even the tiniest wheatear. From Wordnik.com. [Tartarin De Tarascon] Reference
They lie crushed together at the base, and on the point of this jagged ridge a wheatear perches. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
The wheatear was there just four days, Sept. 12-15, and drew at least 580 visitors from Indiana, Maryland. From Wordnik.com. [Cryptomundo] Reference
We found a cricket in the grass and released it right in front of us, and the wheatear came in for the bug. From Wordnik.com. [dispatch.com: RSS] Reference
Another blemish of a minor kind in the ‘Ode to a Star’ is that of rhyming “meteor” with “wheatear.”. From Wordnik.com. [Old Familiar Faces] Reference
From unseen places birds began to sing -- the wheatear in the crevices of the rocks, the sedge-warbler among the rushes of the rivers. From Wordnik.com. [The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable] Reference
As far as the wheatear is concerned, contrary to the chilling waters of Cape Town, Durban is popular for its waters remaining warm throughout the year. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Press Releases] Reference
The northern wheatear is a smallish thrush with rather long legs that breeds on the tundra along the northernmost part of North America, above the Arctic Circle. From Wordnik.com. [dispatch.com: RSS] Reference
The rare bird that drew the most attention was a Northern wheatear, seen on a Holmes County farm in September - only the third recorded sighting of the species in Ohio. From Wordnik.com. [Cryptomundo] Reference
Close by there was a small round hillock, an old forsaken nest of the little brown ants, green and soft with moss and small creeping herbs -- a suitable grave for a wheatear. From Wordnik.com. [Afoot in England] Reference
For the year is never gone by; in a moment we can recall the sunshine we enjoyed in May, the roses we gathered in June, the first wheatear we plucked as the green corn filled. From Wordnik.com. [Nature Near London] Reference
With that being said technically you can try anything but you have to simplify it to your standards, you need to ask yourself how much can you handle and wheatear you'd enjoy doing it. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Presently a great blackness appeared low down in the cloudy sky, and rose and spread, travelling fast towards me, and the little wheatear fled in fear from it and vanished from sight over the rim of the down. From Wordnik.com. [Afoot in England] Reference
Wetlands wheatear to Desert eagle …. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Rep. King Offers Conspiracy To Support O’Keefe: ‘Seems Really Convenient That This Would Happen Now’] Reference
Mystery bird: capped wheatear, Oenanthe pileata. From Wordnik.com. [Poor diets are lowering children's IQ] Reference
"Here's a wheatear, then," I said. From Wordnik.com. [Wandering Heath] Reference
The wheatear is an annual visitor of. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
The chats and the wheatear are of course common. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account] Reference
The northern wheatear seen in Holmes County. From Wordnik.com. [dispatch.com: RSS] Reference
= Greenland wheatear. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
"Not even a wheatear!". From Wordnik.com. [Afoot in England] Reference
Pulborough eel, a Rye herring, and a Bourn wheatear, which, he says. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
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