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house martin

NOUN
  1. common small European martin that builds nests under the eaves of houses

How To Use house martin In A Sentence

  • Drifts of sea pinks coloured the soft grass of the cliff tops and house martins zipped by flashing their pure white rumps.
  • As we held the boat up by the boathouse Martin smiled at me from the shore and said, ‘You're my hero today, Richard.’
  • The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?
  • The technical skill of the house martin enables it to construct gravity-defying mud nests beneath the eaves of houses.
  • In common with other members of the swallow family, house martins build elaborate mud nests precariously slung beneath the eaves of a house.
  • Under our eaves, a pair of house martins are raising a late brood after having to rebuild a nest.
  • House martins breed over a vast area of the Palearctic region from the Atlantic towards the Pacific and as far north as arctic Scandinavia.
  • House Martins have been recorded nesting on the cliffs occasionally.
  • Drifts of sea pinks coloured the soft grass of the cliff tops and house martins zipped by flashing their pure white rumps.
  • Yet another time, near the hamlet of Pelayo, I could hardly see the sky because it was filled with common, pallid and alpine swifts, bee-eaters and house martins.
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