How To Use Wattle In A Sentence

Some of the most charismatic cloud forest species such as the resplendent quetzal (Pharomacrus mocinno) and three-wattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata) are equally dependent on the seasonal moist forests as they migrate annually to these moist forests at the completion of their breeding season. Costa Rican seasonal moist forests
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
The following morning Hilary was already under the wattle tree when he came outside for playtime. FAIRYLAND
The spot-breasted lapwing is distinguished from its close relatives by the fleshy wattles in front of its eyes and by its black-spotted breast. Mystery bird: Spot-breasted plover, Vanellus melanocephalus
For botany lessons, we crossed the road into the botanical gardens, there to examine the leaves of ash, oak, elm, plane, pine but no wattles, gums or banksias.

The members of Eurylaiminae are variable in their plumage; the wattled broadbills have an eye ring of large blue wattles.
The walls of the pit would be lined with wooden planks or wattle, and the floor could also be planked.
The following morning Hilary was already under the wattle tree when he came outside for playtime. FAIRYLAND
Cracids may have a casque, hard comb, wattle or fleshy knob at the base of the bill.
Men do not actually "die of a rose in aromatic pain," though many may become uncomfortable and fidgety by sniffing delicious wattle-blossom; and one of the crinum lilies owes its specific title, (PESTILENTIS) to the ill effects of its stainless flowers, those who camp in places where the plant is plentiful being apt to be seized with violent sickness. My Tropic Isle
But in the next 12 months alone, there is a need for almost 200 lime plasterers, around 140 wattle and daub craftspeople, over 100 glaziers and almost 60 cob builders and dry stone wallers.
As the tarantass nears the wattled corral, the watchful ravens stir from their perches.
Our house also seemed a little swallowed by wattle at times.
The saddleback, a black wattlebird with a tan saddle of feathers on its back and a pendulous orange wattle at the base of its bill, has been translocated 27 times since 1925 and now inhabits approximately 16 islands.
It is sheltered effectively by blue gums and golden wattle broken by a palm tree and a peppercorn and it overlooks an olive grove, which yields a steady supply of virgin oil.
Sotho huts, which have pointed, detachable roofs on walls of mud and wattle, are found throughout the country; these huts have window frames and full doorways.
Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face.
The image at lower left, is a wattlebird in full voice, declaring to others of its species and perhaps to other honeyeaters, ‘this site is occupied’.
The two Greens Senators wore a sprig of wattle over a postcard picture of the two Australian citizens interned in Guantanamo Bay.
There's a film of him doing 'hi-def neck lipo', jabbing his tool under someone's skin to help reduce wattle. Times, Sunday Times
Nick had a wiggly neck wattle and a chest so spiny he looked more soup chicken than grown man. ROUGH JUSTICE
They were found on what was once the Thames foreshore, and would have been stored underwater in a wattle enclosure to stop the wood drying out and splitting.
Male asities enlarge their wattles when they display to females and their outer primary feathers produce a buzzing sound when they fly.
Jeff showed the twins how to weave the twig wattle fence that borders the deck.
Here you sleep enclosed by 600-year-old timbers with the original wattle and daub infill. Times, Sunday Times
Cob, rammed earth, straw, wattle & daub share the stage with papercrete, Earthships, earthbags and entire adobe homes fired to become ceramic, to name just a few.
It's that scanner that peeks under your clothing, creating a ghostly but realistic image of your naked body, accurate down to every curve, knurl, protuberance, carbuncle, wen, bleb, wart and wattle and garfunkel. Airport frisk assessment: Gene gets rubbed the wrong way
They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub with dark and threatening alleyways between.
Common sites of injection in birds include the wing web, wattle, dewlap, and interdigitary skin.
Between 18 and 24 guests live close to nature on a twin-shared basis in wattle huts under scented tropical trees.
The experts reckon the house originally has a thatched or cut wood roof supported by a wattle wall and timber posts.
But if wing flapping is so important, and if (according to some studies) comb and wattle size isn't, why possess the big comb and wattle at all? Archive 2006-06-01
The yeoman-keeper, therefore, our friend Joceline, had constructed, for his own accommodation, and that of the old woman he called his dame, a wattled hut, such as his own labour, with that of a neighbour or two, had erected in the course of a few days. Woodstock
Our house used to be of stone but the hut I left my wife in was of wattle and hide; I am hoping that she will join me but at the moment we have an infant that is too sick to travel.
A small boatload of fish, freshly caught, has just been poured out on the wattled floor.
The timbers were the uprights of wattle fences, the complex containing up to 100,000 square feet or 30,500 square metres of fencing, some of which still survives.
Some cracids have brightly colored skin on the face or neck, or ornaments such as wattles, casques or combs.
There were tall trees, which I learned later were of the eucalyptus family, and yellow blossom which they called wattle. THE BLACK OPAL
Ukrainian folk architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries shows a considerable influence of baroque ornamentation and neoclassic orders while preserving traditional materials like wood and wattled clay.
The albino turkey, that is proud biological, many roasted chicken's survivor and the duck are transformed the soup, comes the inspection, wolfs down and demonstrated that uses his ugly foot to push beheads the duck, it bleeds in the ground and flaps lays aside there its wing, enters any him to think that is a suitable position, and makes the subcrust current sound, when his blue red wattle gushed out, he has mounted the duck which and the copulation dies and it. Thing-a-day 2010
As we drew close to the source, we found ourselves surrounded by the caves and wattle huts of innumerable holy men; they seemed to rear out of the mist, dotting the landscape wherever we looked.
These are decorated with the floral emblems of Australia and Greece, the wattle and the olive.
Quick-growing wattles and eucalypts (gum trees) spread through the country for a multitude of uses on farms, mines, and railways and became a mark of habitation.
To overcome this problem, and at the same time to ensure that generators and cables are not overloaded with wattless current (as this excess current is termed), the supply authorities often offer reduced terms to consumers whose power factor is high, or impose penalties on those with low power factor. Chapter 7
There's a film of him doing 'hi-def neck lipo', jabbing his tool under someone's skin to help reduce wattle. Times, Sunday Times
But I thought western corellas would be easy, and western wattlebirds are classified as common.
The expanse of space south of Arcadia up the steep ridge will, over a period of some 20 years, be denuded of its black wattles and gum trees, and be replaced with indigenous acacias and proteas.
This should include the three endemic New Zealand families: New Zealand wrens, wattlebirds and kiwis.
Less than a year ago, veteran searchers seeking signs of the kokako unsuccessfully searched a valley east of Puysegur Point in Fiordland National Park for signs of the grey bird with orange wattles at each side of the beak. Archive 2007-01-01
The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish.
The saddleback, a black wattlebird with a tan saddle of feathers on its back and a pendulous orange wattle at the base of its bill, has been translocated 27 times since 1925 and now inhabits approximately 16 islands.
The following morning Hilary was already under the wattle tree when he came outside for playtime. FAIRYLAND
Their course is marked by an acacia, which is somewhat analogous in its general characteristics to the common wattle; a few are favoured with some box trees, but we only found water in one. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
Three unique wattlebirds, the kokako, saddleback and huia are part of the ancient Callaeidae family.
Its head rose long and narrow from a skinny neck, so that the warty, wattled face seemed to float in front of the rest of it. A TIME OF WAR
These roundhouses were generally fashioned from double-walled, woven wicker or from posts and wattle.
The oasis was my only source for waterfowl, and I spotted a little bittern, a moorhen and a pair of red-wattled plovers with their distinctive - if not extremely annoying - voice.
Heavily minted baubles adorn their wrists and finely wattled necks. LOVE YOU MADLY
Sally wattle, ironwood and beefwood dominate the very sparse canopy.
In the spring, the male attracts females by gobbling, puffing his feathers, spreading his tail, swelling his face wattles, and drooping his wings.
The timbers were the uprights of wattle fences, the complex containing up to 100,000 square feet or 30,500 square metres of fencing, some of which still survives.
The experts reckon the house originally has a thatched or cut wood roof supported by a wattle wall and timber posts.
Wattle, OT congenital cervical tragus, is a term coined by Clarke1 to describe an unusual skin appendage found on the neck analogous to growths on the dewlaps of birds (turkeys, roosters, etc).
Walls were of planks or wattle and daub (essentially clay reinforced with branches). A Guide to Megalithic Ireland
Yes, they are indeed proper hand-made wattle hurdles, thank you for asking.
A fence or wattle placed in a stream to catch or retain fish.
The menu also included oysters, prawns, turkey, smoked kangaroo, dampers, bread with wattleseed and a range of desserts with native fruits.
The members of Eurylaiminae are variable in their plumage; the wattled broadbills have an eye ring of large blue wattles.
A wig that seemed to be woven out of gray wire was set over a red, pouchy face, whose multiple chins hung over his neckcloth like wattles.
Changes in soil conditions in this area have produced an equally varied understorey of shrubs, with ferns, wattles, banksias, hakeas and geebungs, and a number of native grasses.
The arrangement and integrity of the rafters, wattles, battens and fixings in most of the buildings with medieval thatch suggest that their base coats were applied when the buildings were first constructed.
The day was used to raise funds for the war effort and many trees were denuded in order to supply the many sprigs of wattle sold on that day.
It is rich in game with large herds of red lechwe, puku, Defassa waterbuck, Lichstenstein's hartebeest, roan antelope, and the shy sitatunga and birdlife including the endangered wattled crane.
Of the ornamental ducks the best known species is that with red wattles on its head and neck, which is generally called the Muscovy duck, but which is not, as its name imports, a native of Muscovy; for the name is a corruption of moschata or musk duck, in allusion to the peculiar smell of the creature. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
He walked quickly up the path between a wattle fence and the house. TANK OF SERPENTS
There were lots of black-winged stilts, avocets, Red-wattled plover and black-headed gulls.
Williamson begins his journey among the bellbirds and saddlebacks of the Wattle Track on Tiritiri Matangi Island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf.
The expanse of space south of Arcadia up the steep ridge will, over a period of some 20 years, be denuded of its black wattles and gum trees, and be replaced with indigenous acacias and proteas.
Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face.
Expression of combs and wattles is directly connected to androgen production, whereas feather ornament size seldom depends on current levels of testosterone secretion.
In reality, many people want to rid themselves of neck ‘wattle’ to look younger or to wear certain clothes or accessories more comfortably, without having facelifts.
Men do not actually “die of a rose in aromatic pain,” though many may become uncomfortable and fidgety by sniffing delicious wattle-blossom; and one of the crinum lilies owes its specific title, (PESTILENTIS) to the ill effects of its stainless flowers, those who camp in places where the plant is plentiful being apt to be seized with violent sickness. My Tropic Isle
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.
But the particular area occupied by the rampageous vines was previously covered with wattles and a great variety of more or less densely-foliaged shrubs, each of which would add its quota to the accumulation of fallen leaves and discarded fruit or shelly seed-husks, slow but certain of decay. Last Leaves from Dunk Island
Wheat farmers, grape growers, hawkers, wattle growers, charcoal burners, timber cutters and teamsters all needed good roads for their businesses to operate successfully.
With my mind on naked display structures (if you'll pardon the expression) and thermoregulation, I looked at wattles and combs anew. Archive 2006-06-01
It is sheltered effectively by blue gums and golden wattle broken by a palm tree and a peppercorn and it overlooks an olive grove, which yields a steady supply of virgin oil.
Around these were wattle fences, and men to guard them.
The plants were being protected from the gales by old wattle fencing being put alongside the flower beds.
Wattle and daub construction, the use of cisterns to collect water, the ‘Big Yard’ or common area, and verandas and porches can be traced to Africa.
You won't see a lot of everlastings but the bush flowers are appearing like varieties of banksias and wattles.
The pavilions will house plants from temperate regions of the southern hemisphere such as passion flowers, camellias, banksias, tea trees and wattles.
Along the perimeter I saw an unusual number of crested larks and a few red-wattled plovers in a recently flooded field.
This area is now open ground liable to be overtaken by weeds and wattles.
The walls of the pit would be lined with wooden planks or wattle, and the floor could also be planked.
The wattle (a flap of loose skin extending like a bib from the bird's neck) will turn blue at the base, graduating into a deep rose pink that hangs down like a pendant.
Slather the daub over the surface of the wattle, attempting to seal any cracks to make the structure ‘weatherproof.’
The projects were formed to control alien vegetation such as wattles, pines and hakea in bushes, dams and rivers. ANC Daily News Briefing
Wattle and daub construction, the use of cisterns to collect water, the ‘Big Yard’ or common area, and verandas and porches can be traced to Africa.
Cesario, and the village thus begun was called Frascati, either because of the frasche (wattles) of which the first huts were built, or because the locality had already been known as Frascaria, which in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
Its cousin, the stunning kokako, is slate gray with sky-blue wattles decorating a black-masked face.
Other globally threatened species recorded in this ecoregion include wattled crane (Bugeranus carunculatus, VU), which has its main breeding populations in the wetlands of Zambia, including the Kafue Flats and the Bangweulu and Busanga swamps, corncrake (Crex crex, VU), lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni, VU), great snipe (Gallinago media) and shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex). Zambezian flooded grasslands
Chickens may die without showing any symptoms, but typically, birds suddenly show swelling about the eyes, wattles and ear lobes.
Like all wattles it's fast-growing and flowers from August to October, but a distinguishing feature is its foliage which smells of cinnamon when crushed in warm weather.
Huts are either circular or oblong with wattle (woven-stick) walls, plastered outside and inside with mud, and roofed with thatch.
They cover up to 100 miles of trail beneath silver wattle and broad-leaf peppermint trees, scramble across crumbly dacite rocks. TIME.com: Top Stories
Here is the second cluster of huts, wattle fences enclosing neat crofts of fowl houses and kitchen-gardens blown with harvest.
Many resident birds can also be spotted here like the yellow-wattle Lapwing or the common bee-eater.
Dry-sclerophyll forests have a canopy between 10 metres and 30 metres tall, and generally have a hard-leaved understorey with wattles, peas and boronias.
Unloved as food, it is also picked on for its looks: humans don't have wattled throats – they have turkey necks. In praise of … turkey
Liz, I think what 2T and I referred to about her schnozz was the drooping "wattle. BlondeSense
The frontal shield and wattles are fleshy protuberances.
For botany lessons, we crossed the road into the botanical gardens, there to examine the leaves of ash, oak, elm, plane, pine but no wattles, gums or banksias.
From there she can watch red wattlebirds sip the indigo evening and goshawks, white as salt, hunt geckoes in the scrub, the sea a blue presence in her imaginings.
Supra-orbital combs and wattles are fairly common in gallinaceous birds, but they also occur in other taxonomically unrelated bird families.
Flowers were widely used in design, particularly from the 1880s, when motifs based on the waratah, wattle, bottlebrush, and eucalyptus were popular.
Until now the only trees he has seen are wattles and eucalypts, which don't merit a compliment.
The yellow wattlebird occurs in eucalypt forest and woodland.
Most of the homes of poor rural people are made of local materials, with floors of packed earth, walls of adobe or wattle and daub, and roofs of clay tiles or thatch.
Yet from wattle to neoprene, the history of architecture is also the history of material invention.
The fern-leaved grevillea or honey wattle, Grevillea pteridifolia (family Proteaceae), is a slender tree with fine silvery leaves and brilliant orange flowers.
I will not mention all of them, but a lot of native species, eucalypts, wattles, and quite a number of exotic softwoods and hardwoods, are suitable.
In the distance, a circle of small wattled huts raised on stilts lay shimmering ahead of them on the hot flood plain.
When the wattle-blooms are drooping in the sombre she-oak glade, The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
To hundreds of varieties of eucalyptus, acacia, wattles, banksia trees, grasses and weeds, the lick of flame is a welcome trigger that kindles life in their seed pods and generates ash to fertilise the soil.
He walked quickly up the path between a wattle fence and the house. TANK OF SERPENTS
Common sites of injection in birds include the wing web, wattle, dewlap, and interdigitary skin.
Mr Hall spoke of their surprise that the building where the die was found - the house or workshop of a ‘moneyer’ or engraver - was of wattle construction.
His interest is in pricking Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin into bristling at each other with wattles glowing scarlet and throats gobbling rage.
It's that scanner that peeks under your clothing, creating a ghostly but realistic image of your naked body, accurate down to every curve, knurl, protuberance, carbuncle, wen, bleb, wart and wattle and garfunkel. Airport frisk assessment: Gene gets rubbed the wrong way
They also had larger and more colorful fleshy facial shields and wattles.
The excavations at Waterstone's uncovered wattle fencing and rubbish pits superbly preserved because of the water-logged conditions under the building.
Resplendent in bright orange, black and red, his comb, wattles and ear lobes have been shorn off.
But there has been no word yet on whether the hammer beamed thatched roof, mud floors and wattle & daub walls are up to spec…
Black throat-feathers bristled like the hackles of an angered wolf, while its dark eyes were set off by striking ‘eyebrows’ - wattles of vivid red flesh.
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Albino Turkey, which proudly biological, of many it has been cooked chicken '? the surviving s and duck they the soup is restructured, they come l' inspection, wolves downstairs and they have proved which its ugly foot uses which [apokefaletai] the duck pushes, bleeds to the area and the battles they by part, they introduce its wing there n 'to put; conducts in which these for qu' they think what is a suitable place, and does subcrust current consonance, when blue red wattle outside, this duck have placed which also copulation also kip him. Thing-a-day 2010
Its golden-green upperparts and pure white underbody distinguish it from similarly sized species with similar behaviour, such as friarbirds, wattlebirds and miners.
Their brown dog runs out from beneath the wattled gate and barks a single indifferent bark at my horse before it slinks off.
The leaves and branches of the black wattle are believed to have allelopathic properties – that is the chemical inhibition of growth and seed germination of other plants. Invasive alien species in Africa
Here is the second cluster of huts, wattle fences enclosing neat crofts of fowl houses and kitchen-gardens blown with harvest.
Given that one of Bob's projects involves pasture-raised Red Wattle hogs, you might opt for the tartine topped with artisanal ham, pear, Manchego cheese and honey.
His interest is in pricking Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin into bristling at each other with wattles glowing scarlet and throats gobbling rage.
Scientists are especially concerned over the fate of many cloud-forest birds, such as the resplendent quetzal, with its streaming tail feather, and the three-wattled bellbird, so named for its patented clanging call. The Forest In The Clouds
There's a film of him doing 'hi-def neck lipo', jabbing his tool under someone's skin to help reduce wattle. Times, Sunday Times
The Siamese Fireback cock pheasant is an impressive bird with bright red wattles and legs.
It had turned a blind eye to the pristine state of the area and to its biodiversity, including rare birds such as wattled cranes and other red data species, the groups said. Mail & Guardian Online
First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage. Ulysses
I recrossed Batman's Creek, and travelled over thinly-timbered country of box, gum, wattle, and she-oak, with grass three of four feet high. A Source Book of Australian History
The fourth side is screened by lightweight wattle wall that gently diffuses the harsh light.
Among the better known are various species of Acacia, including the ubiquitous black wattle, Port Jackson and the so-called rooikrans. ANC Daily News Briefing
The birds become lethargic, with a staggered gait, their feathers are ruffled, and the comb and wattles turn dark red or blackish.
Rare and endangered species include the birds scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber), and wattled jacana (Jacana jacana), the mammals tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) and manatee Trichechus manatus, and several marine turtles, for whom it is a breeding area. Maranhao mangroves
In the foreground are burrawangs and beautiful native wattle in flower.
This twelve-roomed farmhouse, known to the Hathaway family, if not to the bardolatrous public, as Hewlands Farm, is built on stone foundations, of timber-framed wattle-and-daub. 'Shakespeare's Wife'
Hoping that he could not see me shake like wattle, I squared up to him and pushed him away. THE MANANA MAN
Crooked stunted gums and stringybarks, with a thick underscrub of wild cherry, hop, and hybrid wattle, clothed the spurs which ran up from the back of the detached kitchen.
Two articulated adult skeletons (sex and exact age to be determined) were found lying above the floor and beneath a thick layer of charcoal and burnt wattle-impressed daub.
Expression of combs and wattles is directly connected to androgen production, whereas feather ornament size seldom depends on current levels of testosterone secretion.
From there she can watch red wattlebirds sip the indigo evening and goshawks, white as salt, hunt geckoes in the scrub, the sea a blue presence in her imaginings.
Hoping that he could not see me shake like wattle, I squared up to him and pushed him away. THE MANANA MAN
I guess the feathered, red wattled bird is out of the proverbial bag. Wajahat Ali: The Stealth Halal Jihadist Turkey: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the Muslim Trojan Horse
Here the Seri have built both Mexican-style jacales of wattle and daub, and small wood-frame structures.
That little bigotted twattler Ellen Evelyn, predicted that my sun would set in darkness. The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion.
For example, Ocotea endresiana (Lauraceae) is a tree species from Latin America which is dispersed by several species of birds, including the three-wattled bellbird. Seed dispersal
Potter described house structures in the eroding sand - round houses of wattle, beneath rectangular buildings with stone wall footings.
Notable are horned screamer Anhima cornuta, Orinoco goose Neochen jubata, harpy eagle, black and white hawk-eagle Spizastur melanoleucusCrax globulosa (VU). and wattled curassow Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil
Woven wattle fences hedge the crofts, enclosing each family's stock of goats and fowl.
Now, the wattless power required for the switching can - after having been released by the coil of the series reactor - be stored in the capacitor to a great extent. 12. Answers to the Questions for Repetition and Knowledge Tests
Besides the narrow endemics listed above, characteristic birds of the escarpment forests and woodlands include red-crested turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus), red-backed mousebird (Colius castanotus) (both endemic to Angola), mottled spinetail (Telacanthura ussheri), batlike spinetail (Neafrapus boehmi), naked-faced barbet (Gymnobucco calvus), red-tailed palm thrush (Cichladusa ruficauda), and yellow-bellied wattle-eye (Dyaphorophyia concreta). Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands
The red wattlebird moves about quickly and acrobatically within the tree.
There were tall trees, which I learned later were of the eucalyptus family, and yellow blossom which they called wattle. THE BLACK OPAL
Reactive volt-amperes are a measurement of the wattless, non-useful power.
This is a frontways view of Bunyip Bluegum and his Uncle Wattleberry. The Magic Pudding
Door posts, a threshold beam and a section of wattle wall are clearly visible.
Kasrils, whose department operates the programme, said the intensity of the fires correlated strongly with the presence of invading aliens such as wattles, gums and hakea from Australia, and pines from Europe and North America. ANC Daily News Briefing
Says Jurgen: ‘Three plants in Central Australia, with an index of seven, are already under pressure because of camels: the quandong, the bean tree and the curly pod wattle.’
Other endangered restricted range species that migrate seasonally to this ecoregion are the three-wattled bellbird (Procnias tricarunculata) and the bare-necked umbrella bird (Cephalopterus glabricollis). Isthmian-Pacific moist forests
With its striated colouration of dark brown, white and grey, the red wattlebird is so named because of the flap of bright red skin on each side of the neck beneath a bare grey area.
We also saw collared doves, wood pigeons, barn swallows and a red-wattled plover.
The following birds utilize a variety of habitats, including eucalypt woodlands: a subspecies of wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax fleayi), Tasmanian native hen (Gallinula mortierii), Tasmanian thornbill (Acanthiza ewingii), and yellow wattlebird (Anthochaera paradoxa). Tasmanian Central Highland forests
It seems that the males have taken advantage of the females' searching for these by having bright blue and red wattles hanging from their throats.
Mud and wattle or sun-dried bricks are used in house building in rural areas; well-off families may use concrete blocks.
The Tasmanian native hen (Gallinula mortierii), black-headed honeyeater (Melithreptus affinis), and yellow wattlebird (Anthochaera paradoxa) are near-endemic to this ecoregion. Tasmanian temperate forests
At this period, the friars had only a single poor cell thatched with straw, with walls of wattle and daub. Christianity Today
But the salvagee, by this method, was always left at the buoy, and was, of course, more liable to chafe and wear than a hawser passed through the ring, which could be wattled with canvas, and shifted at pleasure. Records of a Family of Engineers
These plants include eucalypts and tea-trees, banksias and grevilleas, boronias, native fuchsias, wattles and peas (Fabaceae).
Fragments of wattle and daub used in the house construction plus a trackway lined with treetrunks leading to the entrance have also been uncovered.
One team discovered a new bird, the wattled smoky honeyeater, within seconds of leaving their expedition helicopter. Conservationists discover more than 1,000 species in New Guinea
In the ponds we may encounter the Green Ibis, Snowy Egrets, Boatbill heron, the Purple Gallinule and the Wattled Jacana and many others.
There's a film of him doing 'hi-def neck lipo', jabbing his tool under someone's skin to help reduce wattle. Times, Sunday Times
In the thick, unfelled bush above the horse-and-cattle yards were native hop, ‘sarsaparilla,’ the bottle-brush flower of the wild honey suckle, together with geebungs, wild cherry, eucalyptus, wattle, kurrajong, and pine.
The first thing that struck my eye on approaching was the unusual appearance of the Wattles's greengrocery shop. A Girl Among the Anarchists
Most of the homes of poor rural people are made of local materials, with floors of packed earth, walls of adobe or wattle and daub, and roofs of clay tiles or thatch.
Jim was alongside of mother by this time, lying down like a child on the old native dogskin rug that we tanned ourselves with wattle bark. Robbery Under Arms
The pavilions will house plants from temperate regions of the southern hemisphere such as passion flowers, camellias, banksias, tea trees and wattles.
Here we will see the Takahe, a large six pound Rail, the Saddleback, one of New Zealand's two remaining wattlebirds and the Stitchbird, a rare endemic honeyeater.
There used to be three types of wattlebirds in New Zealand: kokakos; saddlebacks; and huia.
Most of the homes of poor rural people are made of local materials, with floors of packed earth, walls of adobe or wattle and daub, and roofs of clay tiles or thatch.
Craning its thick, wattled neck back and forth as if seeking the origin of its summoning. Earl of Durkness

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