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the characteristic sound produced by a bird
a bird will not learn its song unless it hears it at an early age - a device for imitating a birdcall
How To Use birdcall In A Sentence
- He raises his arms to shield himself, the birdcall surrounding him like manic laughter. Corvus
- “Give the workingman the right to employment as long as he has health,” he said, “assure him of care when heis sick and maintenance when he is old, and the socialists will sound their birdcall in vain.” FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
- Every morning at daybreak we would hear hauntingly long-drawn fluid birdcalls.
- That usually refers to works that go to the extremes of the orchestra, beyond the meat-and-potatoes of strings and winds and brass: a stroke of harp, a shimmer of cymbal, the mellow birdcall of an oboe d'amore or the flatulence of a contrabassoon. Hans Graf conducts Jean-Yves Thibaudet, National Symphony in Ravel, Debussy
- Just two months into his Fulbright fellowship, he already has a quiverful of stories about birdcalls in the Himalayas.
- Even the insects were hushed, and not a single birdcall warbled or whistled through the air. The Magic of Recluce
- (Soundbite of birdcall) Mr. MEIBURG: Steeple Jason is two-peaks rising out of the South Atlantic and are home to the largest breeding colony of black proud albatrosses in the world. Bird Sounds Recorded from Far Afield
- (Soundbite of a birdcall) Mr. MEIBURG: And this sound comes from a bird survey I worked on in the Falkland Islands - specifically, from a remote island called Steeple Jason. Bird Sounds Recorded from Far Afield
- I initially downloaded a free birdcall app, but it included only about 20 species. This App Is for the Birds
- All around was the sound of dripping water, interrupted by the occasional clear birdcall. Tran Siberian