How To Use bonxie In A Sentence
- A third of the world's arctic skuas, big fierce birds nicknamed Bonxies, nest on the great hills of the island.
- The bonxie surveyed me coldly, raising dark wings and issuing a harsh double croak from its hooked, halfopen beak. Times, Sunday Times
- The bonxie is a species that has evolved to live like this. Times, Sunday Times
- We followed a faint path south, passing a small loch below Sidhean Beag where bonxies were creating turmoil amongst the oystercatcher nests.
- Although the numerous seabirds that surround it in spring are great too watch, be aware of the great skuas, or ‘bonxies’.
- So maybe his eyes will get pecked out by a bonxie, he'll be attacked by a basking shark, or BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
- But this young gannet must have caught the bonxie with peripheral vision. Times, Sunday Times
- The great skuas, known locally as bonxies, which live by stealing fish from smaller birds, are displaying disturbing behavioural changes.
- Lots of fulmars and gulls, even a bonxie (not sure how you spell that) although it did not hang around for long.