How To Use Turnstone In A Sentence
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Knots and turnstones arrive at Alert in late May through early June, when the weather is cold and unpredictable and food resources scarce.
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The Severn Estuary, where the celebrated naturalist Sir Peter Scott founded Slimbridge, the wildfowl refuge which became one of the world's most famous nature reserves, provides an 86,000-acre feeding ground for wild swans, geese and many thousands of wading birds, such as dunlin, turnstone, oystercatcher and ringed plover, from all over Europe.
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Species such as red knot ( '' Calidris canutus '') and ruddy turnstone ( '' Arenaria interpres '') are inferred to have had much larger populations and more extensive breeding areas during glacial stages, although others, such as dunlin ( '' C. alpina ''), exhibit evidence of range fragmentation during glacial stages leading to the evolution of distinct geographically restricted infraspecific taxa.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
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In winter it is given over to turnstones, purple sandpiper, oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds.
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Just above the water's edge, a ruddy turnstone picked at sea lion afterbirth.
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Several migratory wader species are regular visitors to the island, principally are double-banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus, eastern golden plover Pluvialis dominica, turnstone Arenaria interpres, whimbrel Numenius phaeopus and bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica.
Lord Howe Island Group, Australia
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And besides the land birds, Gould felt he had looked at some other new species, including a gull, a heron, and a turnstone.
The Song of The Dodo
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Active foragers, turnstones are best known for their habit of turning over objects and eating the food underneath.
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Even now I think with pity of one particular turnstone.
The Foot-path Way
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Several migratory wader species are regular visitors to the island, principally are double-banded dotterel Charadrius bicinctus, eastern golden plover Pluvialis dominica, turnstone Arenaria interpres, whimbrel Numenius phaeopus and bar-tailed godwit Limosa lapponica.
Lord Howe Island Group, Australia
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A cormorant flew low over the water, long neck held in a serpentine curve; sandpipers and turnstones tottered among the rocks.
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The turnstone, when surrounded by comrades belonging to more energetic species, is a rather timorous bird; but it undertakes to keep watch for the security of the commonwealth when surrounded by smaller birds.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution
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Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.
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With the caveat that I'd have absolutely no chance of knowing much about the American avifauna, my guess would be a turnstone Arenaria sp.
What is this bird?
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Dunlin and turnstone augur us where, how and when best as to burial of carcass, fuselage of dump and committal of noisance.
Finnegans Wake
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Just above the water's edge, a ruddy turnstone picked at sea lion afterbirth.
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However, there is no doubt that mangroves of this ecoregion are crucial to several long-distance bird migrants including ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres), spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularia), and whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus) that utilize them as feeding and resting places from August through April during their extraordinary intercontinental journey.
Rio São Francisco mangroves
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Shorebirds, for those of you who want to know but are afraid to ask, comprise many families of birds, including oystercatchers, stilts, avocets, plovers, turnstones, sandpipers and phalaropes.
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Greater yellowlegs, spotted sandpipers, black turnstones, surfbirds, sanderlings, least sandpipers, and dunlins also had their best year in 2008.
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Rational Review
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Rational Review
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Knots and turnstones are both medium-sized waders that inhabit intertidal coastal areas outside the breeding season.
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The commonest messenger birds named in Hawaiian stories are the plover, wandering tattler, and turnstone, all migratory from about April to August, and hence naturally fastened upon by the imagination as suitable messengers to lands beyond common ken.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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Species such as red knot ( '' Calidris canutus '') and ruddy turnstone ( '' Arenaria interpres '') are inferred to have had much larger populations and more extensive breeding areas during glacial stages, although others, such as dunlin ( '' C. alpina ''), exhibit evidence of range fragmentation during glacial stages leading to the evolution of distinct geographically restricted infraspecific taxa.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
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No turnstone nests were found in 1999, apparently because of very high predation pressure from Arctic foxes.
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Football Hole, just around the corner, is a small sandy bay that's perfect for a picnic while you watch turnstones, oystercatchers and female eider ducks that bring their crèches of ducklings here to learn crab-catching skills.
