In addition to communicating through song, larks will raise the crest of feathers in their head during agonistic and courtship displays. |
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Along the perimeter I saw an unusual number of crested larks and a few red-wattled plovers in a recently flooded field. |
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As I tramped pale flinty paths through the cornfields, larks sang and March hares frolicked. |
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For those that got in, we drank away until the wee small hours and talked of old times, japes and larks. |
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I particularly enjoyed the jolly japes and larks of Ping the Elastic Man, Tin-Can Tommy and Whoopee Hank the slapdash sheriff. |
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There is no support for the idea that female larks work harder during the chick rearing period compared with the incubation period. |
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Waders such as redshank and spoonbills, have begun to proliferate, and numbers of larks, linnets, yellowhammers and reed bunting have grown. |
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The crested larks have turned out to be one of the most common birds both in Kuwait and Iraq. |
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The songs of larks over the rustle of a meadow can at last be accepted as music. |
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Roadside horned larks are grouping into their common spring exaltations where they will nest. |
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Structurally amorphous, there's little for the musical mind to hold onto, but, then perhaps that's the nature of an exaltation of larks. |
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I hadn't gone much farther when I found the horned larks that Bill said would be in the freshly manured field along the same road. |
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Migrating birds can be seen as early as January, when horned larks arrive, followed by waterfowl in February and March. |
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Most observations relate to larks, pipits and finches but kestrels are capable of taking such quarry as fieldfares, turtle doves and lapwing. |
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Most larks are ground nesters and build open-cup nests in small, excavated hollows in the ground. |
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She wasn't particularly bright, granted, but she was unassuming, fun, game for anything, fond of her grub and up for larks. |
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He lived on the sub-continent until the age of five, when his boyish larks led his parents to send him to live with his grandparents in Devon. |
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More dubious than any of these schoolboy larks is the lengthy section of tragedy-as-farce set in present-day Lithuania. |
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Go for a walk on the land under threat and you will hear larks, pheasants, you'll see deer and at night you'll hear foxes and owls. |
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Because many larks nest in open desert areas, chicks are often exposed to sun and heat. |
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With approximately 10 larks to the pound, three hundredweight would account for about 3360 birds being killed each day. |
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Minimalist design without carabiners: negligible weight and bulk thanks to the larks head tool connection. |
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An exaltation of larks had assembled on the roof of Francis's hut. |
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The good doctor's single shotgun blast did in the exaltation of larks. |
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This musical tone poem alternates between lyrical moments and spirited interludes that suggest an energetic exaltation of larks ascending and descending as they fly. |
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For example, hoopoe larks have long decurved bills that are used for digging for insect larvae, while calandra larks have strong, stout bills that are used for eating seeds. |
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There are plenty of birds too including shrikes, stonechats and larks, and butterflies including swallowtails, and in the woodland glades, Camberwell beauties. |
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You might happen upon a bevy of larks, chirping or singing together. |
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Birds such as grouse, crows, quail, partridge, nightjars, cuckoos, shrikes, larks, pipits, merlins, harriers, kestrels and buzzards would all have been seen. |
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When more plants started growing, more and more lapwings, redshanks, black-tailed godwits and larks replaced them. |
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Hundreds of Sheffield stargazers rose with the larks yesterday to become some of the first in the city to see the planet passing between the Earth and the sun. |
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Horned larks appear to come into the Hamlet to feed on grit and seeds. |
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Half-breed boy with two Hoyt's horned larks and a stick for striking down birds on the ground Fort McMurray, Alberta. |
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Attach the flying lines to the bridles with a larks head knot, as shown in the figure. |
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Other highlights included six colourful shore larks feeding with snow buntings at Holkham beach. |
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He said the most notable species are Egyptian vultures, larks, falcons, wheatears, owls and partridges. |
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Peregrine and gyrfalcons nest here along with upland species such as snowbuntings, horned larks and plovers, and seabirds such as loons, guillemots, terns and murres. |
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He also visits Rotterdam's massive international port where, surprisingly, wildlife actually flourishes, including shore larks and snow buntings. |
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Birdwatchers can explore the Grasslands Trail, where eastern meadowlarks, horned larks, grasshopper sparrows, and Sprague's pipits seek refuge. |
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You may see black-tailed prairie dogs standing on alert at the edges of their burrows or horned larks dashing across the road. |
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He recalled sightings last year of burrowing owls, lark sparrows and horned larks adjacent to the park in a small unplanted field. |
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Avian prey is more infrequently preyed on inland and centers on passerines such as larks, icterids, starlings, tyrant flycatchers and pipits. |
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There was a light-blue morning wind blowing and thistledown flying loose along the tops of the clouds and larks going up and down, up and down, in the shining lift of the sky. |
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Signs of winter include snow buntings on the Great Orme and at Point Of Ayr RSPB reserve, but much rarer are two shore larks at Gronant. |
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Set back from the beach, they're surrounded by a sea of lowland fynbos vegetation, home to Cape sugarbirds, orange-breasted sunbirds and rare long-billed larks. |
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In the go-go 1990s, larks became de rigueur in the executive suite. |
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The fauna of the province ranges from bears, wolves, chamois, wild cats, deer and roe deer in the Pyrenees, to rabbits, moles, bobcats, foxes, partridges, larks and the remaining territory. |
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Wildlife officials say the acquisition would benefit streaked horned larks, Western meadowlarks and other grassland waterfowl. |
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Horned larks on the roadside will herald the arrival of more birds in the spring. |
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In a sense, the editorial cartoons were correct when they suggested that an exaltation of larks can fly under the influence into an aspect of vulturous behavior. |
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Another recipe is how to cook small birds such as larks and wheatears, covered with breadcrumbs and basted with butter on a skewer as a second course or for supper. |
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The Hume's yellow browed warbler was still being seen in Caernarfon this week, the ferruginous duck was at Martin Mere,and the three shore larks were at Lytham. |
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