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  • Thousands of householders are being urged to redesign their gardens to halt the rapid decline of sparrows and starlings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sparrows, chickadees, woodpeckers, and an assortment of other creatures were awake and bustling that summer morning.
  • The Little Sparrow," "Je Ne Regrette Rien", the tragic fate of her boxer-lover, do we really need to crank that victrola one more time -- haven't we had enough? Paris Then, Paris Now: James Wolcott
  • A black coat-tailed drongo like a late night dinner guest is chased across the water by two enraged house sparrows.
  • Over the course of the year, he's almost hit on the head by a sparrowhawk, gets a whiff of "bad badger breath" when three cubs cannon into his lap, and watches two stoats massacre a screaming leveret, their normally creamy bibs "the colour of a slaughterman's apron". A Year in the Woods: The Diary of a Forest Ranger by Colin Elford
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  • It gives meaning to a sparrow's flight beyond the banqueting hall. Times, Sunday Times
  • The little sparrows have the answer to that. Times, Sunday Times
  • Centum mille perdrices plumbo confecit;" [4] that is, indeed, too often the sum of the life of an English lord; much questionable now, if _indeed_ of more value than that of many sparrows. Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds
  • Walking around the cemetery yielded a handful of red-wings, phoebes, doves, and Song Sparrows and nice looks at a Field Sparrow and a White-eyed Vireo.
  • But in other ways the tree sparrow is very different from its urban relative. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sparrows, starlings, Indian mynahs and feral pigeons rarely visit Australian gardens, which welcome an array of colourful native birds.
  • He fed sparrows and grosbeaks on a seed tray mounted on a pole to be visible from his windows.
  • At intervals during his literary career, I have tried to add a bit to his stature, he “looks shorter than he actually is,” and so on; but for the most part we find him described as a sparrow, a small, dusty brown sparrow — “soon he was, sparrow-like, hopping and darting this way and that in search of crumbs of information.” Death of Jezebel
  • Only a handful of endangered species, such as the Tecopa pupfish, the longjaw cisco, and the dusky seaside sparrow, have ever been taken off the list because they went extinct.
  • A host of sparrows create such a rioting as renders sleep or repose perfectly out of the question.
  • But how shall I forget the solemn splendour of a second course, which was served up in great state by Stripes in a silver dish and cove; a napkin round his dirty thumbs; and consisted of a landrail, not much bigger than a corpulent sparrow. The Book of Snobs
  • Some landscapes these days have been reduced to nothing but dandelions and fire ants, knapweed and thistle, where the only remaining wildlife are sparrows, squirrels, and starlings.
  • Each eardrop was a single turquoise, almost as large, and quite as clear in colour, as a hedge-sparrow's egg. Vixen, Volume III.
  • Somewhere in the thick of branches a sparrow screeched angrily.
  • The area supports a number of species locally threatened or at their biogeographic limits, including golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, prairie falcon Falco mexicanus, ferruginous hawk Buteo regalis, loggerhead shrike Lanius ludovicianus, merlin Falco columbarius, Brewers sparrow Spizella breweri and grasshopper sparrow Ammodramus savannarum. Dinosaur Provincial Park, Canada
  • These sparrows breed in native shrub-steppe habitats or in small patches of unplowed grass and shrubs near agricultural fields.
  • I was recently advised of a splendid plan to unloose some sparrow hawks in Glasgow's parks and squares.
  • He looked more and more like a well-to-do old English sparrow, and chippered faster and faster. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches
  • Then he placed his daughter in the one, and her dead husband in the other, and said to the palkee-bearers, "Take these palkees and go out into the jungle until you have reached a place so desolate that not so much as a sparrow is to be seen, and there leave them both. Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
  • International cuisine uses the eggs of other birds, including ducks, geese, sparrows, quails and ostriches, but it is the hen that has been universally domesticated.
  • Birds of prey also suffered, with many sparrowhawks and kestrels too badly injured to survive, though many owls were successfully treated and released.
  • The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
  • Invariably, the winter sparrows head north again to resume their breeding activities, and I am left to enjoy my resident species, such as the spotted towhee, California towhee, scrub jay, and California thrasher.
  • Geese, ducks, sparrows, and hawks are heading south in numbers.
  • In a meadow on the hills that encompass the city, I found the American dandelion in bloom, and some large red clover, and started up some skylarks as I might start up the field sparrows in our own uplying fields. Winter Sunshine
  • I would the Duke we talk of were returned again: this ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because 165 they are lecherous. Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
  • The findings emphasised research that suggested house sparrows and starlings were declining, though the reasons for the slump remain unclear. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many birds feed comfortably on a platform, especially the sparrows, juncos, towhees and doves that are referred to as ground feeders.
  • There is nothing to see except blackbirds and sparrows; nothing to hear except the noise of butterflies' wings.
  • The cuckoo, which resembles a sparrowhawk or a kestrel in flight, can be difficult to identify.
  • We wanted swifts, but are pleased nonetheless to have finished up with sparrows and starlings. Times, Sunday Times
  • I hear a song sparrow from the bushes on the shore, -- _olit, olit, olit -- chip, chip, chip, che char -- che wis, wis, wis_. Bird Day; How to prepare for it
  • Eggs were bought for threepence a dozen by the Temuka Roads Board for sparrows, thrushes and blackbirds.
  • More hedge sparrows are also singing though the mornings are frosty. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stop sparrows and finches from shredding crocus blossoms by placing foil pinwheels - the kind sold for children's Easter baskets - every few feet among the flowers.
  • Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement. 
  • Old World sparrows are highly gregarious; they often roost and breed communally and form feeding flocks.
  • He appears in the cartulary of the Holy Trinity, Aldgate, as an alderman in 1249 and 1250, was associated with the parish of St John, Walbrook and had an estate in Bishopsgate.3 But little is known of his origins; indeed, his mysterious background evokes Bedes comparison of the passage of a mans life with the flight of a single sparrow through a chieftains banqueting hall. Bedlam
  • I knocked on his meagre chest with my fore knuckle, and fetched forth a weak, gaspy cough; but he looked at me unflinchingly, much like a defiant sparrow held in the hand. Local Color
  • The white underside of this sparrow is streaked with buff and brown across the breast.
  • Even the house sparrow's song sounded harsh and sinister on the day.
  • The characters - a horse, cat, sparrow, monkey, cat and dog - are fed vintage wine and exquisite food and are blissfully unaware of the outside world.
  • This is how the edge of the forest mocks a birdwatcher: though I'm looking intently for warblers, vireos, and tanagers, I get only house sparrows.
  • More than 2,600 linnets, 100 yellowhammers, 229 reed buntings and 1,200 skylarks have been recorded along with smaller numbers of brambling, tree sparrows and chaffinches. BBC News - Home
  • If I was housekeeper here, an 'cud have hothouse strawberries, an' swatebreads undher glass, an 'sparrowgrass, an' chicken, _an'_ ice crame, the way you can, whiniver yuh loike, I wouldn't be a-eatin 'cornbeef an' cabbage. Cheerful—By Request
  • The young sparrows are fledging already
  • A sparrowhawk was calmly finishing off a blackbird six feet from my head.
  • Another circumstance is the "The Sparrow" by Mary Doria Russell, sometimes not shelved by bookstores or libraries in their SF sections; of course, the book is about first contact with aliens and travel to an alien planet, it might be Spec. Thumbing Their Noses at Science Fiction
  • And there are more raptors about: falcons, peregrines, sparrowhawks.
  • Smallest woodpecker (sparrow sized) and often elusive preferring the tops of trees.
  • Black oil sunflower seeds are relished by chickadees, evening grosbeaks, cardinals and finches, and are less attractive to non-native sparrows and starlings.
  • And it's about the birds that are with us all year: robins and barn owls and sparrows and marsh harriers. Times, Sunday Times
  • A year ago the sparrow was still the most commonly seen bird in London. The Sun
  • Dusky seaside DNA is, as far as can be seen, identical to that of other, commonplace, sparrows nearby.
  • Meanwhile, the school's rugger players took part in a tag festival at Sparrows Den.
  • The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
  • I am taking a keen interest in bird watching and feeding a troop of greedy sparrows who are devouring everything I put out there.
  • Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins.
  • Despite the snipe and the swamp sparrows, the bird of the outing was a rail.
  • The Falklands were colonised by house sparrows travelling aboard a fleet of whalers from Uruguay.
  • It's afternoon, about a quarter to one, and the sparrows abound, alighting in the numerous olive trees twisting in writhen contortion round the flanks of the pavilion.
  • New birds will come thick and fast - woodpeckers, kingfishers, barbets, tinkerbirds, widows, cisticolas, apalis and prinias, crombecs, various sparrows and canaries.
  • The array of birds included a hen harrier, barn owls, kingfishers, sparrowhawks, long-eared owls, kestrels and woodpeckers.
  • A cat scales a glass sharp wall and drops beside its shadow under an apple tree, stalking anxious sparrows with the first sun.
  • Now, with the help of advances in radiotelemetry, a team of ecologists led by Princeton graduate student James Adelman has succeeded in measuring fever and sickness behavior in various populations of North American song sparrows living in the wild. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Birds of concern include the brown pelican, lesser tern, osprey, black rail, clapper rail, California gnatcatcher and savannah sparrow. Southern California Coast (Bailey)
  • The sparrow had arrived in a block and cannot debouch from a there. The sparrow in a block
  • For their pleasure and sport Guivret caused to be taken with them rich falcons, both young and moulted, many a tercel and sparrow-hawk, and many a setter and greyhound. Four Arthurian Romances
  • Cars and alien shrubs are being blamed for the mysterious disappearance of house sparrows from British towns and cities. Times, Sunday Times
  • He hid near nests of black woodpeckers, kingfishers, northern hazel hens and Eurasian sparrow hawks.
  • it is a common or garden sparrow
  • Many birds feed comfortably on a platform, especially the sparrows, juncos, towhees and doves that are referred to as ground feeders.
  • While song sparrows and yellow warblers, two of the most common cowbird eggs' hosts, are not deep woods birds, these small songbirds are unable to compete with the wildly proliferating numbers of cowbirds.
  • Edge it with shrubs to provide leaf litter where brown thrashers, towhees, and white-throated and fox sparrows can scratch for insects.
  • I once saw one attacking a little sparrow. The Sun
  • Budgies, finches, sparrows and canaries are only a few of the more than one hundred kinds of birds people keep in their apartments.
  • Sunflower seeds appeal to many of our wintering birds, but the goldfinches and house finches prefer thistle seed, while the ground-feeding sparrows and doves enjoy millet or a mixture of high quality seeds.
  • The thicker scrub and thickets of elder, hawthorn and bramble, meanwhile, provide ideal cover for nesting robins, wrens, sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds and thrushes.
  • Silly as it may sound I really enjoyed the many verdin and black throated sparrows. Think Progress » Pelosi Welcomes Tea Partiers To Join Progressives In Fighting Against Special Interests
  • International cuisine uses the eggs of other birds, including ducks, geese, sparrows, quails and ostriches, but it is the hen that has been universally domesticated.
  • The diplomat proceeded to scatter crumbs on the ground and attract the attentions of sparrows and pigeons.
  • Sparrow, social or chipping, or "chippie" (SPIZELLA SOCIALIS). The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
  • And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
  • By examining the genetics, we have shown conclusively that the Italian sparrow is of mixed origin - it is a hybrid of the house sparrow and the Spanish sparrow, " Dr Saetre told BBC Nature.
  • Hundreds of species of birds, such as seagulls, herons, starlings, sparrows and many others, live or often visit mangrove forest areas.
  • To lose it would be like losing house sparrows or hedgehogs from gardens. Times, Sunday Times
  • When we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter's day.
  • The sparrow crossed the lawn in a series of hops.
  • Close relatives to Old World sparrows are pipits (family Motacillidae), accentors (family Prunellidae) and possibly finches (family Fringillidae).
  • Where is the nest of song-sparrow, or Maryland yellow-throat, or yellow warbler, or chippy, that is safe from the curse of the cow-bird's blighting visit? My Studio Neighbors
  • So maybe it wasn't a tree sparrow. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eating lunch at a small cafe, I saw a sparrow hop through the open door and peck at the crumbs near my table. Christianity Today
  • Among the birds - valued at 5.1 million forints - were yellow wagtails, field larks, sparrows and pipits.
  • He flung a stone at the sparrows, he missed, scaring all the sparrows away.
  • Plenty of parrots and hummingbirds do, and likewise many of what are called oscine songbirds, including the warblers, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes and so on. Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
  • This is how the decline in house sparrows was first noticed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Young Herbert was picking up small stones and throwing them at the sparrows twittering in the hedgerows scattering them in all directions.
  • He's not just talking about pigeons and sparrows either; kiwis, ostriches, penguins, and rare flightless parrots are just a handful of the exotic avians featured in this series.
  • A sparrow may be small but it has all the vital organs.
  • The kingdom of unloved avians is ruled by the trash triumvirate: House Sparrow, European Starling, and Rock Pigeon.
  • I hear a song sparrow singing from the bushes on the shore — olit, olit, olit — chip, chip, chip, che char — che wiss, wiss, wiss. Walden
  • For the last half-minute a sparrowhawk had been hovering over a clump of last year's dead weeds. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • I can hear the songs of migrating birds: phoebes, white-throated sparrows, towhees, catbirds, chipping sparrows.
  • For the last half-minute a sparrowhawk had been hovering over a clump of last year's dead weeds. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • They might be taken at a glance for a plain, brown female house sparrow, but they are not sparrows at all. Times, Sunday Times
  • I would the duke we talk of were returned again: this ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because they are lecherous. Act III. Scene II. Measure for Measure
  • And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail.
  • More hedge sparrows are also singing though the mornings are frosty. Times, Sunday Times
  • At night, the sound of predatory birds is played through hidden loudspeakers in the main square, so that sparrows do not soil the casino lawn. Times, Sunday Times
  • In less than twenty minutes he was on his way up town, and with him were four tidewaiters and Sergeant Sparrow.
  • Finches, grosbeaks, titmice, nuthatches, sparrows, and cardinals will beat a path to your door.
  • In less than two minutes the perches were again graced by the anxious group flight behaviors of sparrow families. The hummers are gone...
  • The sparrow perked up its tail.
  • With wide brimmed hats and skin slippery with sun block, they chittered and chattered like sparrows, as they frolicked in their favourite spot.
  • The farm also has breeding Willow Tit, Grey wagtail and Sparrowhawk.
  • Other birds facing tough times in Bradford include the house sparrow, the golden plover, the yellowhammer and the redshank.
  • Soon I started driving to the lake north of town, where I found coot and killdeer, and to my uncle's farm to find rufous-sided towhee and field sparrow.
  • And he found a number of bird species, such as the corn bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, skylark, linnet and yellow wagtail, which have been seriously declining since the growth of intensive agriculture.
  • A typical farming village in this region attracts tree sparrows, black redstarts, gray partridge, skylarks, and hen harriers.
  • Sparrows, (otherwise known as weaver-finches), maybe. Grouse Diary Entry
  • So home, and having brought home with me from Fenchurch Street a hundred of sparrowgrass, -- [A form once so commonly used for asparagus that it has found its way into dictionaries.] -- cost 18d. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete
  • This is the song of the dunnock, or hedge sparrow. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's of German origin--apparently spaetzle means "little sparrow," but a true modern spaetzle looks more like "boogies. Maria Rodale: Simple Spaetzle from Scratch
  • While we don't have tall trees, our neighbors do, and the firs and oaks that surround our property drop acorns and provide homes for jays, woodpeckers, robins and sparrows.
  • Of course, the adaptable sparrows, starlings, and doves aren't going anywhere; they never do.
  • In the barn (one of only a handful that have not been developed in the locality) there are nesting pairs of barn owls, and sparrow hawks, while buzzards and peregrine falcons are regular visitors to the woods.
  • At night, the sound of predatory birds is played through hidden loudspeakers in the main square so that sparrows do not soil the casino's famous lawn. Times, Sunday Times
  • Similarly, the tree sparrow is showing signs of a recovery after a big decline. Times, Sunday Times
  • But as my feet (numb, of course, despite the insulated books and socks) crunch along the frozen grass or the snow, the white-throated sparrow is sure to sing out, pluck my heart strings, and get me feeling all warm inside: White-Throated Sparrows and the Return of Old Sam Peabody
  • The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
  • Round the list out with the expected sparrows, cardinals, crows, starlings, doves, and catbirds, and you've got a nice hour of birding.
  • Sparrows, swallows, and songbirds tell the story of a place.
  • About 20 koi carp, worth more than £1,000, were killed, and between 20 and 30 finches, canaries, waxbills and Java sparrows were allowed to escape.
  • A tree sparrow and a catbird came to check out the menu and were treated to half a biscuit that somebody hadn't been able to find room for. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • Everything from the modest sparrow to the extravagant scarlet macaw came to perch and settle around her.
  • Plenty of birds of winter still mob Ann's bird feeders; chickadees, juncos, sparrows, woodpeckers, nuthatches, goldfinch, and doves are in no short supply.
  • The sparrow alighted on a nearby branch.
  • Set in wide margins they provide food and cover for wildlife, while the high grass shelters partridge, tree sparrows and skylarks.
  • I would the duke we talk of were returned again: the ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because they are lecherous. Measure for Measure
  • Songbirds like warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks, and sparrows are far from the only birds that display dimorphism.
  • Be it a duck, a sparrow, a linnet or a thrush.
  • For instance, if you're looking into a large tree and notice several small birds constantly in motion, you should know that these are likely warblers and not sparrows or finches or thrushes.
  • He has logged more than 1, 400 animals, from the miniature (one-ounce song sparrows) to the gargantuan (a 1, 500-pound black Angus bull).
  • Last of all came Fiver, dejected and reluctant as a sparrow in the frost.
  • Up in the timber above them a magpie carolled and a sparrowhawk hung in the sky like a floating cross. MURDER SONG
  • Looking over my notes of this excursion, I come upon the following sentence: "To sit on a stone beside a mountain road, with olive-backed thrushes piping on every side, the ear catching now and then the distant tinkle of a winter wren's tune, or the nearer _zee, zee, zee_ of black-poll warblers, while white-throated sparrows call cheerily out of the spruce forest -- this is to be in another world. The Foot-path Way
  • I have no idea whether sparrows eat skirret, but they were definitely sniffing around it the other night.
  • The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
  • Many species will specialize on certain types of seeds; small beaked sparrows eat small seeds, large beaked sparrows eat large seeds.
  • So why cannot hen harriers, sparrowhawks and goshawks be controlled to protect lapwings, curlews, golden plovers and, yes, pheasants and grouse?
  • Up in the timber above them a magpie carolled and a sparrowhawk hung in the sky like a floating cross. MURDER SONG
  • Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement. 
  • In the two first experiments, the experimental sparrow was placed in an aviary next to a cage containing either a rabbit or a cat.
  • The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
  • Study population and field methods. Song Sparrows are territorial passerines found in a variety of brushy and moist habitats throughout most of North America.
  • Luz has discovered her appetite and is looking a little less peaky now, a little less like a starveling sparrow. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • The fertilised females go off on their own looking for hedge sparrow or reed warbler nests. Times, Sunday Times
  • We mostly saw the usual sparrows, doves, crows, chickadees, and titmice. Tons of Blue Jay are in flight right now as they are involved in a migration of their own.
  • There were birds everywhere, of all types - hoopoes, wagtails, tits, finches, and sparrows and swallows nesting in the beams of the house; there were cuckoos singing by day and nightjars by night.
  • I saw an Eagle, most likely a Spotted Eagle, a buteo of some sort, and an accipiter, either a Eurasian Sparrowhawk or a Levant Sparrowhawk.
  • The sparrow, like all street singers, sounds his scrannel note with raucous complacency; but it does not matter here, for no one is critical or talks of Art. Once, on a July morning, I ran through the cornflower-blue shadows of the path to a grove of young fir-trees, and was present at a breakfast party given by the willow warblers. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
  • The sparrowhawk is a serious threat to adult pied flycatchers and is the only common bird of prey in our study area.
  • There was a fieldfare, and a couple of birdwatchers with bigger binoculars and more knowledge than me said they had seen a female sparrow hawk and 30 widgeon.
  • Hedge sparrows have also become very busy. Times, Sunday Times
  • Crows and sparrows have been known to attack innocent passers-by who happen to stroll near their nests.
  • The common sparrow is now a rare sight in Glasgow. Times, Sunday Times
  • Well, I have tried to outsing the song sparrow, but I always lose.
  • The bird is a sparrow.
  • Poor Puttel, after gazing wistfully out of the window at the gaunt city cats skulking about the yard, would retire to the rug, and curl herself up as if all hope of finding congenial society had failed; while little Nick would sing till he vibrated on his perch, without receiving any response except an inquisitive chirp from the pert sparrows, who seemed to twit him with his captivity. An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • Wild turkeys can be spotted in the Poconos' open fields, bobolinks and grasshopper sparrows breed in the area's grasslands, and waterfowl, shorebirds, and herons wade in its wetlands.
  • I called to see father last night, and had supper there; and you should have seen how lovely she were — eating sparrowgrass sideways, as if she were born to it. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • The road descended through weedy habitat full of sparrows and Red-winged Blackbirds.
  • They used to be as common as sparrows. Times, Sunday Times
  • In winter, our resident population is increased by large numbers of birds from the Continent, forming flocks on farmland, often with other finches, buntings and sparrows.
  • At the second pond I found a magpie hopping around near the water, some red-wattled plovers in the field, and a few Dead Sea Sparrows carrying nesting material.
  • A drive down a local road flushes out all kinds of sparrows, warblers, and finches.
  • It didn't sound like a Song Sparrow, I thought as I lifted my binocs, but perhaps that was a flight call.
  • Five or six sparrows instantly alighted on my arms and head, gripping my skin with their bony little claws.
  • My own small back garden contains the live nests of wrens, blackbirds and sparrows, so there will be scores more on the campus.
  • Additional subfamilies placed within Passeridae include: sparrows, accentors, weavers and waxbills (Estrildinae).
  • In a nod to biologism, she makes a comparison to animal noises: ‘could a common sparrow take the meadow lark's song?’
  • Mr Sparrow said the site was the only green space in a largely built-up area and had, until recent ‘unsympathetic’ pruning, been a ‘green counterpoise to the surrounding buildings’.
  • For, to the romantic, the bird of paradise is much more exciting than the humble house sparrow.
  • Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement. 
  • The branches serve as a handy perch for the sparrows and mourning doves that frequent my city bird feeder.
  • Chickadees, tufted titmice, blue jays, cardinals, sparrows, juncos and red-headed woodpeckers all come to feast on the scrumptious mixture of seeds, nuts and cracked corn I put out for them.
  • It was winter and the sparrows were pecking at whatever they could find.
  • I remember the motion of the feathers on that sparrow's wings from the moment I typed this poem for publication in a mimeograph newsletter.
  • One sparrow box can house up to 36 baby sparrows in a year.
  • The right-hand page shows in childlike handwriting the first lines of his poem “Pastoral”: “The little sparrows/hop ingenuously/about the pavement/quarreling.” 2009 January 28 « One-Minute Book Reviews
  • It was a light gray and it had a large black beak, more like a hawk's than a sparrow's.
  • I called to see father last night, and had supper there; and you should have seen how lovely she were -- eating sparrowgrass sideways, as if she were born to it. The Hand of Ethelberta
  • Game birds, mockingbirds, robins, and sparrows enjoy the juicy, sticky red fruits.
  • On my deck, reading Proust, listening for that soft wind in the pergola, looking the sparrow into redbud leaves With six months to live
  • Other species in danger are the brown hare, skylark, linnet, reed bunting, tree sparrow, grey partridge, bullfinch, song thrush and grass-wrack pondweed.

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