The four biggest losers since the first Big Garden Birdwatch in 1979 have been the starling, house sparrow, song thrush and blackbird. |
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Muscles flexing, waiting, twitching, he has pounced on a starling, dispatched it with a single bite, and carried the limp lifeless thing away. |
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I'm thinking a phoebe, purple martin, starling fluttering up, a kingbird, I have no idea what's on the lowest wire, a nuthatch and a robin. |
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Native birds, he said, were not at risk because they stayed clear of the starling horde. |
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For bird watchers there are Somali bee-eaters, rosy-patched shrike, golden-breasted starling and golden pipit. |
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The Indian Myna is from the starling family, while the Australian miners are honeyeaters and grey in colour. |
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The starling is that portion of the pier which faces the direction of the stream, and acts like the cutwater of a ship. |
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They are the size of a starling with light brown plumage, red markings round the eyes, a crest and an orange-tipped black tail. |
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But there wasn't much time for birding and besides, little boys with catapults ensured there wasn't a mossie, pigeon or starling anywhere. |
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The starling has survived on a small island, Cocos, off the south coast of Guam, and the swiftlet still nests on the high walls of a cave. |
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There are several subspecies of the common starling, which vary clinally in size and the colour tone of the adult plumage. |
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In addition, Ontario residents may hunt American crow, brownheaded cowbird, red-winged blackbird, common grackle, starling and house sparrows. |
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The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common. |
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Now when dusk has settled on the camp again we can hear starling chatter. |
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Now people from all corners of the sports world are calling for starling to lose his team ownership. |
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The European starling is an aggressive, opportunistic cavity nester often out-competing native species and causing conflicts with humans. |
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As for birds, the European starling and the brown-headed cowbird are both nest parasites, Swift said. |
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It has been a bad week for birds: it emerged on Sunday that the government regulator, Natural England, is making the case for the destruction of robin and starling nests to protect human health. |
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He takes groups to watch starling murmurations on the Somerset Levels. |
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Many people are familiar with the cases of the House sparrow and the European starling, introduced species which are now integrated with the local fauna. |
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The tiny Wilson's Storm-Petrel, no heavier than a starling although with much longer wings, makes an annual trip from its breeding places in the Antarctic to waters off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. |
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Many common species, such as whitetailed deer, grey squirrel, coyote, starling, house sparrow and ringbilled gull, are recent arrivals to this region. |
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The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling. |
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The funny part of it all is that the starling appears to make the chippies do whatever it pleases. |
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The Shetland wren, Fair Isle wren and Shetland starling are subspecies endemic to Shetland. |
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Branwen tamed a starling and gave it a message to carry across the Irish Sea to Bendigeidfran, who set out for Ireland to rescue her. |
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In India the rose-coloured starling is called locust bird. |
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The lesser yellowlegs remained on Anglesey's Alaw estuary to the end of last week as did the rose-coloured starling in a Nefyn garden. |
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And the rose-coloured starling has remained in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. |
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Migrant birds like cursoirus cursor, gull, starling, blackbird, duck, waterhen and sand grouse. |
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Many readers too, have made much of the signifying force of the connection between Sterne and the starling. |
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There are the sounds of late autumn: the yack of jackdaws, a starling imitating a blackbird, a robin's thin song, the chatter of sparrows picking through a nearby gutter. |
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On this list are the song thrush, starling, sparrow, skylark, lesser redpoll and the linnet. |
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Already, more than 100 birdwatchers have flocked to Durness, in Sutherland, and more are on the way to see the Daurian starling. |
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A shooting starling, a wise old owl or are you just a dawdling duck? |
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They join other once-common birds including the house sparrow, starling and song thrush. |
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The starling and the song thrush have both fallen down the pecKing order in the RSPB Big Schools' Birdwatch. |
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It states that snipe, dunlin, starling, fieldfare, lapwing and whimbrel are among the list of birds present in the surrounding area. |
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Some, such as the woodcock, snipe, lapwing, starling, and lark, rely on surrounding conditions to initiate their spring and autumn migrations, and the patterns of their flight depend on temperature and barometric pressure. |
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Some of the birds which are captivated here are Munia, Mughal Pigeon, swan, starling, Indian hawk but it has flown away. |
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There will also be a screening of filmmaker Christo Wallers' latest work inspired by starling murmurations. |
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The results reveal the house sparrow is Tyneside's top bird but last year's favourite, the starling, was pushed into second place. |
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The four biggest loosers are the starling, the house sparrow, song thrush and blackbird. |
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Song as an honest signals of past developmental stress in the European starling. |
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Most prospective franchisees are interested in starling a business in their current geographical location. |
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Housing mounted on stationary poles, or poles that tilt down, are no longer practical, due to the introduction and proliferation of the house sparrow and European starling. |
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Second most spotted was the starling, followed by the black-headed gull. |
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The island of Espiritu Santo is home to all of Vanuatu's endemic birds, including the Santo mountain starling, a species restricted entirely to Santo. |
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Investigation of the aetiology of haemosiderosis in the starling. |
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