How To Use Kingfish In A Sentence
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They also caught a couple of large kingfish and many skipjack.
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He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots.
CHAPTER XV
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Another dream tells of an encounter with a being who held four keys, and bore the wings of a kingfisher.
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Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and ferrets, moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
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But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies.
Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
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But these days, the chief executive of U.K.-based Kingfisher PLC, the world's third-largest home-improvement group, has a problem that no amount of do-it-yourself labor can fix: His company derives nearly half of its profits from continental Europe.
CEOs' Message: Fix Europe, Or Else
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Just months after Edwards Dam was removed, birds such as ospreys, bald eagles, and kingfishers returned.
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They are preyed on by herons, cormorants, kingfishers, goosanders, large trout and eels.
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Snipe, red buntings, yellowhammers and even kingfishers are supposedly hereabouts.
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MUMBAI – Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd. will put Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. on a cash-and-carry mode from Saturday because of non-payment of bills, a person close to the development said Thursday.
Mumbai Airport Puts Kingfisher Airlines on Cash-and-Carry
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Tanysiptera galatea, the common paradise-kingfisher, is an arresting bird with the unmistakably huge head and the trowel-like beak characteristic of kingfishers generally.
The Song of The Dodo
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Even when promptly gutted, cleaned, cut into steaks or fillets and then shoved into ice, kingfish is best eaten the day it is caught.
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Ciguatera poisoning from fish is caused by a neurotoxin (ciguatoxin) present in the dinoflagellate, Gambierdiscus toxicus. 13 The toxin is passed through the food chain and becomes concentrated in larger fish (greater thanthree kilograms) such as the kingfish and the sturgeon.
Fish poisonings and envenomations
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Across the kingfisher's range, wherever rivers are healthy , fish will swim.
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In fall you'll see Northern flickers, herons, kingfishers, downy woodpeckers, and lots of ducks (common goldeneyes, mallards, mergansers).
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She waited, and when it moved again she saw it, a speck of shining beauty even on this dull morning: a kingfisher.
FOLLY
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These incoming crowds are, in turn, boosting numbers of fish-eating birds, such as herons, kingfishers, and grebes.
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After taking out some 20 tiddlers, the heron flapped off, only to be replaced by a kingfisher who calmly took another ten from all round my float before moving off.
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Although most fleet Kingfishers were catapulted from the fantails of battleships and cruisers, the Navy also tried mounting them on the stern of destroyers.
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Birds here are diverse and include honeyeaters, pilotbirds, cockatoos, pied currawongs, white-winged choughs, and laughing kookaburras, the largest kingfisher in Australia.
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Near one of the lakes I saw 8 pied kingfishers perched on the top of a date palm, it may have been the parent birds with their recently fledged young.
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Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks.
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It looks like something out of a child's toy box: the old carriages are made of wood, painted a faded kingfisher blue, and they sit only ten people each.
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One of the best known examples in vertebrates is the cooperative breeding system of the pied kingfisher, where less related secondary helpers invest less in feeding hatchlings.
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Kingfisher, heron and little grebe are also now a common sight.
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Trio of hapuka, salmon and kingfish each individually prepared and presented on a large platter.
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The powdery blue kingfisher has a more varied diet than the name suggests.
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Anatomy of a Sri Lankan buffet plate (clockwise from the papadum): leeks, dhal, eggplant, chicken curry, potato, bitter gourd, coconut sambol, goat curry, and kingfish curry; mango and pineapple chutney, yellow rice (center).
The MTA Dining Car: Eating Club: Staten Island Ferry To Little Sri Lanka
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Species include black-naped fruit pigeon Ptilinopus melanospila, large brown cuckoo dove Macropygia phasianella, emerald dove Chalcophaps indica, collared kingfisher Halcyon chloris and yellow-vented bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier.
Ujung Kulon National Park and Krakatau Nature Reserve, Indonesia
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Ruddy kingfishers in the Philippines remove land snails from their shells by smashing them against stones on the forest floor.
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Water trickled from the pools around the artists 'residence, carp splashed and occasionally a kingfisher swooped above the pool.
A message from Lian Hearn the writing of Across the Nightingale Floor
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Cormorant, blue heron, kingfisher, agouti, blue morpho butterfly, green iguana, smell of the sea.
OFF THE CHART
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Birds present include the bulbuls, babblers, barbets, kingfishers, shamas, drongos, pigeons, woodpeckers and tailorbirds.
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New birds will come thick and fast - woodpeckers, kingfishers, barbets, tinkerbirds, widows, cisticolas, apalis and prinias, crombecs, various sparrows and canaries.
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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Sailfish, dorado, kingfish, barracuda, various snappers, cobia. trevally, jacks, queenfish, bonito and Spanish mackerel are some of the fish to be caught.
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These incoming crowds are, in turn, boosting numbers of fish-eating birds, such as herons, kingfishers, and grebes.
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He hid near nests of black woodpeckers, kingfishers, northern hazel hens and Eurasian sparrow hawks.
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All the common species are here - blackbirds and thrushes and the like - plus goldfinches, swallows, kingfishers and grebes on the pond.
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A belted kingfisher undulated past, some unlucky minnow in its stiletto-like bill.
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Flocks of wintering water birds include the thrush, the kingfisher, the robin, the shama, the barbet, the bee-eater, the flycatcher, the sunbird, the bulbul and the drongo.
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An opulent jewel in the dusty, cracked landscape, it became a haven for birds, being visited by pied kingfishers, mountain chats, spoonbills, bokmakieries, a pair of black-shouldered kites.
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Late last week, Kingfisher hit a submerged object and damaged her daggerboard.
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Brown belly laugh Kingfisher distributed in the island of New Guinea and nearby islands.
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It is also beautiful and tranquil and I have seen kingfishers there as well as hundreds of weavers.
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Small game of various species was frequently seen in the fields and hedges; kingfishers, kites, and hawks put in an appearance, and a tall bird standing four feet high was pointed out to us, called a sarus, gray in color, and of the stork family.
Due West or Round the World in Ten Months
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He is helped by local creatures like a stinkpot turtle, a spring peeper, a muskrat, a kingfisher and a mallard duck.
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Many kingfishers are unspecialized carnivores that are often largely insectivorous, and may take prey from the ground, the air, water or foliage.
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In Oklahoma, which recorded a gust of 82 mph and 11 inches of rain, some 300 homes and businesses were damaged in the Kingfisher area and in Caddo County in southwestern Oklahoma, officials said.
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We didn't catch that fish, or any fish, but we had a great day with kingfishers, peregrine falcons and buzzards for company.
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Such, for instance, is the case with the hen kingfisher, which is one of the brightest of British birds and one of the very few which make their nests underground; the hen woodpecker, which is also gaily colored and builds in hollow trees, forms a second instance.
A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.
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The Greta is one of the most important rivers in the North of England, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, home to otters, herons, kingfishers, dippers, trout and salmon, and the main feeder to Bassenthwaite Lake.
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The blue kingfisher is investigating the tumour made by white ants in the bloodwood wherein the nest is annually excavated, and soon the chattering notes of the pair will be heard.
Tropic Days
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There is no reason to suppose that any of these kingfish or "king whiting" actually came from as far east or north as Cape Cod, or even from anywhere in southern New England waters for that matter.
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Burns and his radioman were patrolling the lagoon with another Kingfisher pilot from North Carolina.
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Other success stories include the river Nar in Norfolk, which now yields sea trout as well as dace, chub and brown trout, while birdwatchers can enjoy kingfisher and reed warblers as well as admiring 12 species of dragonfly and marsh orchids.
Rivers the healthiest in a generation due to stricter pollution controls
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I open the left hand, palm of the legislature and a Kingfisher.
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The remaining four species are found nowhere else: the endangered black-chinned monarch (Monarcha boanensis) and vulnerable salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis), purple-naped lory (Lorius domicella), and lazuli kingfisher (Todirhamphus lazuli).
Seram rain forests
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The menu board also features Caribbean classics like oxtail stew, red snapper, kingfish and curried goat.
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Sunnyhurst Brook, which runs the length of the woods, is known among the birdwatching community as an excellent place to spot kingfisher, grey wagtail, dipper and heron.
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Mr Deacon says that far from damaging wildlife, the lake and wetlands already attract kingfishers, mallards, woodpeckers, coots, waterhens, curlews, plovers, deer and foxes.
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Resident birds include kingfisher, dipper and grey wagtail and on most days of the year the heron can be seen.
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Joined a fishing tour to Waterhouse Tasmania at Easter 2010. We caught plenty of flatheads, gurnards, pikes, kingfish, squids and Katy caught a gummy shark!
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Hamja had painted his boat with an image of a crouching Spider-Man and christened it the Kingfisher, emblazoning the name on the side in the sweeping script of graffiti artists everywhere.
Jihadists in Paradise
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I also spotted a male kingfisher, herons and several dippers.
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The little oasis on Buckshaw Hall Road, off Chancery Road, has been home to kingfishers, herons, mallard and a moorhen that has recently settled there.
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Waterbirds such as the kingfisher suffered very high mortality rates when rivers and streams froze over, while small insect-eating species such as the treecreeper, goldcrest, wren and long-tailed tit died because of widespread "glazed frosts", a layer of ice over the branches of trees which covered up their food supply.
Weatherwatch: 'War winter' took it's toll on Britain's birds
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We search one last time for green kingfisher (small, quiet, and hard to spot) and ringed kingfisher (big, noisy, and easy to spot).
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The great blue kingfisher, which is common here, is so tame, as scarcely to move, as the boat passes, and we frequently saw, and passed close to large alligators, which generally appeared to be asleep, stretched on the half-floating logs.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827
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Snipe, red buntings, yellowhammers and even kingfishers are supposedly hereabouts.
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In that time I have seen: startled wallabies bouncing into the distance kingfishers, tui, rosella, warblers wekas.
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After numerous trips and hours of staring at the water and surrounding reeds, I still had not seen the kingfisher.
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Above it were the roller and bee-eater and hoopoe, all fabulously Mediterranean with hot aureate colors that were not, even in the late 1960s, permitted in Britain yet, except under license to the kingfisher.
A Year on the Wing
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As throughout the summer, children under five can swim free with a parent or carer at Kingfisher Leisure Centre.
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The Pied Kingfisher is exceedingly common on all rivers and jhils, and is, of course, a permanent resident.
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Below the wall was a flat plain where we saw kingfish, a large moray eel and a shoal of tuna.
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We didn't catch that fish, or any fish, but we had a great day with kingfishers, peregrine falcons and buzzards for company.
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A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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Water dikkops, nocturnal plovers and several species of kingfisher and bee-eaters have been sighted here.
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The pollution could decimate the river's thriving population of kingfishers.
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"Far Out" Island Fishing
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For dinner, we were offered roast duck salad, roast vegetables and rice served as little fried balls called arancini, curry of kingfish or kangaroo steak.
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We had some luck with bad views of a Blue-capped Kingfisher, but a pair of Rufous-headed tailorbirds was well seen.
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The resort habitat covers orchard, meadow, forest edge, broadleaf and riparian habitats which attract many different species from black and white owls, sungrebes, herons and kingfishers on the river to oropendolas, woodpeckers and orioles in the orchard.
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"Far Out" Island Fishing
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The major trading of tuna, marlin, shark, kingfish, swordfish and manta ray is conducted in the covered hallways of the central market in Creek Road.
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A bird called jacamar is often taken for a kingfisher, but it has no relationship to that tribe.
Wanderings in South America
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Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks.
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Some think, as the original name racham denotes "tenderness," "affection," the halcyon or kingfisher is intended [Calmet].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Across the kingfisher's range, wherever rivers are healthy , fish will swim.
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Cats - especially those breeding in the wild - along with stoats and ferrets, moreporks, blackbirds and kingfishers are the worst enemies of the lizards.
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It is hoped the new greenery will increase the number of heron, water voles and kingfishers that have already been found there.
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Those species like the pied kingfisher and the Seychelles warbler, which are able to fledge many more young when assisted, are also the same species that are mostly likely to recognize close relatives.
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She hopes to set off in the catamaran Kingfisher II next January, with a team of 14, to beat the current record of 64 days.
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It is regarded as one of the most environmentally important stretches of countryside in Snowdonia because it is untouched by intensive farming and is home to many wildlife species of international importance such as kingfishers, otters and the chough.
Llyndy Isaf farm in Wales saved by National Trust after £1m appeal
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W cygnine swan W anatine duck 1862-1893 dacelonine kingfisher W OOsW didine dodo 1885 OW avine bird 1881 OW falconine falcon OW buteonine buzzard fringilline finch 1874 -
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During two-day trip, we see countless Amazon kingfishers bats, forest falcon, American finfoot, scarlet-rumped tanager, and a great black hawk.
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The 16 paintings in the British Birds in Watercolour exhibition at Nunnington were completed over the past year and feature game birds grouse, partridge and woodcock as well as kingfisher, robin, whitethroat and tawny owl.
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Light scatters prismatically in microscopic feather structures to create the kingfisher's brilliant blue.
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Andy Brown, the gullible foil and friend of Kingfish, and Amos Jones, a salt-of-the-earth cab driver.
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There are already an estimated 20000 of them, surpassing native birds such as barn owls, nightingales and kingfishers.
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Those species like the pied kingfisher and the Seychelles warbler, which are able to fledge many more young when assisted, are also the same species that are mostly likely to recognize close relatives.
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At Jake's we had crab and akee on toast, followed by kingfish in coconut cream, and wondered whether to make an appointment with the bicycling masseur Joshua Stein.
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We paddled right under the canopy of trees overhanging the banks and got close encounters with egrets, herons, storks and some brilliant kingfishers.
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Flocks of wintering water birds include the thrush, the kingfisher, the robin, the shama, the barbet, the bee-eater, the flycatcher, the sunbird, the bulbul and the drongo.
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If you are after marlin, tuna, kingfish, mahi-mahi, red snapper, grouper or flying fish, he is your man.
Times, Sunday Times
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A few species, such as pied kingfishers and laughing kookaburras are cooperative breeders.
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Lorikeets, rosellas, kingfishers, dollarbirds, kookaburras, cockatoos and a variety of other species make the Atherton Blue Gum a very diverse birding haven.
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Studies confirm the most delicate and exotic species - butterflies, dragonflies, otters, kingfishers, woodpeckers - do indeed get wiped out.
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Kingfisher launched a hostile bid for Dixons.
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In stark contrast to the downbeat results from Kingfisher and Next last week, City analysts expect Tesco to report strong pre-tax profits of £938m in the first half.
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I also spotted a male kingfisher, herons and several dippers.
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Kingfisher confirmed that it hopes to tie up a deal within the next two weeks.
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The kingfisher darts along like an arrow; fern-owls, or goat-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor; starlings, as it were, swim along, while missel-thrushes use a wild and desultory flight; swallows sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by rapid turns and quick evolutions; swifts dash round in circles; and the bank-martin moves with frequent vacillations, like a butterfly.
MacMillan's Reading Books Book V
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Cormorant, blue heron, kingfisher, agouti, blue morpho butterfly, green iguana, smell of the sea.
OFF THE CHART
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One example of biomimicry is the Shinkansen bullet train in Japan: a design inspired by the shape of a kingfisher's beak helped make the train quieter.
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In Ike's battle group, besides minor damage to the Gettysburg from an antiradar missile, the frigate John C Pauly had taken a half-ton warhead from a Kingfish amidships, while in CBG14 both the DDG Truesdale and the FFG Dickinson had been badly mauled.
Countdown
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Flocks of wintering water birds include the thrush, the kingfisher, the robin, the shama, the barbet, the bee-eater, the flycatcher, the sunbird, the bulbul and the drongo.
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Nonfiction for younger children tends to lean more heavily on illustration than on prose, reasonably enough, and there is plenty to engross in "Peter Kent's City Across Time" Kingfisher, 48 pages, $16.99 , which came out in May.
A Good Time To Get Real
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Otters, badgers, kestrels, lapwing, buzzards and kingfishers are just a few of the animals and birds under threat along the Clanrye River between the Belfast and Tandragee Roads north of Newry.
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We netted up a bunch of live pilchards, literally over 1000 and anchored up over a reef out about 10 miles and proceeded to create a feeding frenzy of kingfish, bonito, blackfin tuna, mahi, red snapper, sailfish and wahoo.
Good Guide, Bad Guide
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The public is being asked to survey kingfishers, skylarks, water voles and hedgehogs so that as much information as possible can be gathered.
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They ranged from party-colored macaws, green parrots, and big gregarious cuckoos down to a brilliant green-and-chestnut kingfisher, five and a quarter inches long, and a tiny orange-and - green manakin, smaller than any bird I have ever seen except a hummer.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
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Top feathers used for kingfisher craft are the turquoise blue and the snowy blue kingfisher feathers.
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The auklet, the puffin and the kingfishers burrow into the friendly and solid earth.
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
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The baitfish tightened into a ball as the kingfish attacked, while several snapper and dory moved in hoping to share the spoils.
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There are still many native birds in the shrubland including bellbirds, kingfishers, silvereye and the hawk or kahu.
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What further inclined her to clemency, was that this very evening the crimson-lake tea-gown would shed its effulgence over Mrs. Poppit's bridge-party, and Diva would never want to hear the word "kingfisher" again.
Miss Mapp
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The white-breasted kingfisher is a noisy brown, bright blue and white bird, sporting a large white bib and a powerful red bill.
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Unfortunately, there wasn't any leatherjacket available at my fishmonger so I used Hiramasa Kingfish
Archive 2009-01-01
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At night, as you dine by oil lamp on kingfish, pilau rice and tropical fruits, the fishing boats set forth once more like Viking ships, their prows cutting through the waves and paddles fighting with the swell.
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I have seen kingfisher, barn owl, marsh harrier, and whooper swan at my place; my wife has seen little egret.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the common species are here - blackbirds and thrushes and the like - plus goldfinches, swallows, kingfishers and grebes on the pond.
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The Belted Kingfisher is a medium-sized, stocky bird with a large, crested head, and a long, solid bill.
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Koskomenos the kingfisher is a kind of outcast among the birds.
Secret of the Woods
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Flocks of wintering water birds include the thrush, the kingfisher, the robin, the shama, the barbet, the bee-eater, the flycatcher, the sunbird, the bulbul and the drongo.
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Kingfisher launched a hostile bid for Dixons.
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Otters, badgers, kestrels, lapwing, buzzards and kingfishers are just a few of the animals and birds under threat along the Clanrye River between the Belfast and Tandragee Roads north of Newry.
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I'd walk to school along the Dodder and watch the abundance of wildlife - kingfishers, ducks, geese and swans.
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I had asked to see a pied kingfisher, and was taken to a pond where a pair were known to nest.
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This volume completes the non-passerines, dealing with all species occurring on the continent - residents and visitors alike - in the following families: parrots, turacos, cuckoos, owls, nightjars, swifts, colies, kingfishers and their allies, and woodpeckers and their allies.
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All the common species are here - blackbirds and thrushes and the like - plus goldfinches, swallows, kingfishers and grebes on the pond.
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The 26-year-old skipper reached the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe aboard her 60-foot monohulled yacht Kingfisher, completing the journey from the French port of Saint-Malo in 13 days, 13 hours and 31 minutes.
ABN AMRO ONE claims Volvo ocean race
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Ciguatera poisoning from fish is caused by a neurotoxin (ciguatoxin) present in the dinoflagellate, Gambierdiscus toxicus. 13 The toxin is passed through the food chain and becomes concentrated in larger fish (greater thanthree kilograms) such as the kingfish and the sturgeon.
Fish poisonings and envenomations
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Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
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More than 200 species of birds are also found here, including the rare Storm's stork and the oriental darter, kingfishers and raptors such as the crested serpent eagle.
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Perhaps our best birder poet, he has written memorably about chickadees, towhees, titmice, owls, great blue herons, pelicans, kingfishers, and many others, always effacing himself before the glory of the thing seen.
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Three wards within the Great Western hospital are expected to remain closed until the end of the week, including the Saturn and Neptune medical wards and the Kingfisher trauma ward.
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He hid near nests of black woodpeckers, kingfishers, northern hazel hens and Eurasian sparrow hawks.
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Another faller was the home improvement giant Kingfisher, the company behind B&Q, which closed 8.4p lower on 237.1p.
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Just months after Edwards Dam was removed, birds such as ospreys, bald eagles, and kingfishers returned.
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At Jake's we had crab and akee on toast, followed by kingfish in coconut cream, and wondered whether to make an appointment with the bicycling masseur Joshua Stein.
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Photo By KingFisher907 the highest point in north america, 20,320 ft asl
Field & Stream
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The Sajnakhali area contains a wealth of water birds, noteworthy residents including Asian openbill stork Anastomus oscitans, black-necked stork Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus, greater adjutant Leptoptilos dubius (E), white ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus, swamp francolin Francolinus gularis, white-collared kingfisher Halcyon chloris, black-capped kingfisher H. pileata and brown-winged kingfisher Pelargopsis amauroptera.
Sundarbans National Park, India
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Antiaircraft fire shells straddled his sitting Kingfisher as Oliver pulled Coumbre and Jacobs aboard.
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They will be my number one rods in the Persian and Arabian Gulf later this year when I tackle the big cobia and kingfish.
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The kingfisher is a sacred bird which should always be respected; knowing this, I let it alight and did not stir, for fear of frightening it.
Laboulaye's Fairy Book
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For dinner, we were offered roast duck salad, roast vegetables and rice served as little fried balls called arancini, curry of kingfish or kangaroo steak.
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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It is an excellent place to watch forktails, redstarts, kingfisher, blackbirds etc.
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The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
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What is the gestation period for dogs? Specifically GSH Pointers. I've heard 62 days is this true?
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At night, as you dine by oil lamp on kingfish, pilau rice and tropical fruits, the fishing boats set forth once more like Viking ships, their prows cutting through the waves and paddles fighting with the swell.
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The airport operator had earlier encashed bank guarantees worth one billion rupees on which Kingfisher had defaulted.
Mumbai Airport Puts Kingfisher Airlines on Cash-and-Carry
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Other bird species associated with mangroves include spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularia), roseate spoonbill (Ajaia ajaja), green heron (Butorides virescens), belted kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon), mangrove cuckoo (Coccyzus minor), mangrove warbler (Dendroica petechia), and reddish egret (E. rufescens).
Bahamian mangroves
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At Jake's we had crab and akee on toast, followed by kingfish in coconut cream, and wondered whether to make an appointment with the bicycling masseur Joshua Stein.
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Although kingfishers, bee eaters, storks, dragonflies, mosquitoes and ants are all part of his photographic repertoire, the wary hoopoe has been dodging his lens for years.
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There were more stretches through wilderness and spotting shoals of fish, cormorants, cranes, owls, spoonbills, kingfishers, woodpeckers, and a few snakes.
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They say the programme of tree felling and undergrowth clearance is being carried out at the wrong time of year, disturbing kingfishers, otters and bats.
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Ratnagiri boasts an annual catch of 1,25,000 tonnes of a variety of fish, including pomfret, surmai (kingfish), bangda (Indian mackerel) and rawas (Indian salmon), but with the project, those numbers could dwindle significantly.
India's Field Of Nuclear Fissures
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Yall like doritos?
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Three Kingfisher pilots searching for ships in distress radioed they had spotted life rafts in the stormy Atlantic.
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Where the trail hugs the edge of the slough, watch for waterfowl - pintails, green-winged teals, and widgeons - and listen for the machine-gun rattle of belted kingfishers.
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For instance, kingfishers and sungrebes fly ahead and away from boats heading up or down the creek, sometimes for kilometers at a stretch.
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I began to wonder how the rattle of a kingfisher, which is one of the commonest sounds on wilderness waters, could scare a bear, who knows all the sounds of the wilderness perfectly.
Secret of the Woods
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The mudflats are a rich feeding ground for a number of small shorebirds, and for great blue herons, egrets, and kingfishers.
South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, Oregon
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Some of the fish you can expect to catch are, Kingfish, barracuda, tuna, queen fish, jack crevale dorado, cobia, bonito, wahoo, sailfish and sharks.
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For fishermen preferring finesse to power, the challenge is to catch bonefish, kingfish and the sleek torpedo-shaped bonito on the fly.
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Red buntings skirmish in its spray at the waterside, kingfishers gyrate through the arch of the bridge and a bold heron stands sentry on a rock below.
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Their daring and skill remind me of a remark T.E. Lawrence made of strategy in war: "Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
It May Sound Funny
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Flocks of wintering water birds include the thrush, the kingfisher, the robin, the shama, the barbet, the bee-eater, the flycatcher, the sunbird, the bulbul and the drongo.
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Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks.
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Anatomy of a Sri Lankan buffet plate (clockwise from the papadum): leeks, dhal, eggplant, chicken curry, potato, bitter gourd, coconut sambol, goat curry, and kingfish curry; mango and pineapple chutney, yellow rice (center).
The MTA Dining Car: Eating Club: Staten Island Ferry To Little Sri Lanka
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There are still many native birds in the shrubland including bellbirds, kingfishers, silvereye and the hawk or kahu.
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Certainly not the blue heron, standing midleg deep in the water, obviously catching cold in a reckless disregard of wet feet and consequences; nor the mournful curlew, the dejected plover, or the low-spirited snipe, who saw fit to join him in his suicidal contemplation; nor the impassive kingfisher -- an ornithological Marius
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers
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A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak.
Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
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Some pairs of kingfishers call in duets, and cooperative groups of kookaburras call in a chorus at dawn and dusk.
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Although primarily used as seaplanes, Kingfishers also could be fitted with wheels and operated from land bases.
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If you are after marlin, tuna, kingfish, mahi-mahi, red snapper, grouper or flying fish, he is your man.
Times, Sunday Times
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A kingfisher added colour, swallows dipped and wheeled, and the second cast of a March Brown produced a lovely threequarter-pound trout.
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In summer, great shoals of gamefish arrive, including giant kingfish, barracuda, sailfish and bonito.
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Many ships carrying two or three Kingfishers operated in the South Atlantic, searching for subs and blockade runners.
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He created the fashion label, food lines and then an airline all branded Kingfisher.
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He created the fashion label, food lines and then an airline all branded Kingfisher.
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In a brief but dazzling flash of sumptuous vermilion and aquamarine, the kingfisher was gone, darting out of sight beneath the willows which brush the cool, clear waters of the Little Stour.
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Welcome though this urban regeneration will be, now is probably your last chance to spot a kingfisher down by Bow Bridge, before the property sharks move in.
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VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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Sara thought it was a kingfisher and, let me tell you, she knows kingfishers.
