noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bird's/eagle's/crow's etc nest
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an abandoned bird's nest
bird dog
bird flu
bird of paradise
bird of passage
bird of prey
bird table
bird's-eye view
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Visitors can enjoy a bird’s-eye view of the area from the castle turrets.
bird/animal/plant species
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You can see many different bird species on the canal.
bird/whale/royal etc watcher
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Fifteen thousand bird watchers visit annually.
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Industry-watchers hailed the takeover as a triumph.
bird/wildlife etc sanctuary
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The park is the largest wildlife sanctuary in the US.
dolly bird
eat like a bird (= eat very little )
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Ever since she was a child, Jan had always eaten like a bird.
humming bird
mother cat/bird/hen etc (= an animal that is a mother )
mynah bird
water bird
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
dead
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There would be no room for the birds to fly, and dead birds would fall on me as I walked.
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Paw prints everywhere, upturned vases and dead birds the leftovers from the buffet.
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After that we found more dead birds , their beauty still unspoiled.
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No dead birds in the larder in springtime.
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The whole place looks dead and deserted, a ruin fit only for the dead and carrion birds ... ... and so on.
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No dead birds fell from the trees.
early
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Large cattails swayed under the weight of a few early birds .
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Politicians seem to work on the assumption that the early bird catches the voter.
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He's one of those early birds .
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You have time to digest the unexpected worm, as they say about early birds !
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Every early bird is after them, and a mole can eat twice its weight in worms every day.
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He was always an early bird , was Jack.
game
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All my work has been involved with estates where game birds were the prime consideration.
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Shopping for Quail Quail, one of the most widely available of all game birds , are stocked in many poultry departments.
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Some of these may be used in combination when grilling meat or game birds .
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It is one of the few game birds where the flavor does not vary substantially between the wild and farm-raised fowl.
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Like all other game birds , quail need to be cooked carefully to avoid overcooking, as the flesh can dry out.
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They are, however, slightly more forgiving than squab and other game birds to overcooking.
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Pickling is a very old technique that was used to preserve game birds before refrigeration was widely available.
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Similar accomplishments can be found in the raising of many almost-extinct species of game birds , such as wild turkey.
large
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A large bird was riding the air currents below him, and he decided it must be an eagle.
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Although with such a large number of birds , it's difficult to grow a particular affection for individuals.
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They are largest in polyandrous birds , where several males fertilize one female, and it is not hard to see why.
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Meanwhile, the larger birds of prey were tucking into things like mice, rats, chicks and rabbits.
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The thing she carried in her arms was a large white bird , and it was quite still.
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If a larger bird is low in the queue, why does it not displace the bird at the head?
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A large bird may require up to three days for thawing.
little
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It is a remarkable little bird in many respects, being superbly adapted to the unpredictability of a semi-desert environment.
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They were just like little birds chirping out whatever words oldest sister fed them.
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Mould a little bird for the top of the hutch, if liked, from brown fondant trimmings.
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Just like a little tweety bird !
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They look like jittery, hysterical little birds crowded together on a power line.
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Little by little the bird builds its nest.
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A reliable little bird tells this column that Frank may not be long for this world either.
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To our surprise the little bird was still with us.
other
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This has profound implications for our understanding of the evolution of sexually monomorphic ornaments in many other bird species.
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One or two other species of bird have developed a much more accurate technique of finding their way in the dark.
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Protect crops from pigeons and other birds with netting.
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What other birds breed on Spurn?
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The court was told that a stuffed golden eagle could be worth £1,000 and the other birds could fetch £160 each.
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Two other tame birds on the same farm have already produced chicks which are now living in this barn.
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In winter it is given over to turnstones, purple sandpiper, oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds .
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But there were other birds too.
rare
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We missed out on some of the rare birds .
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But, given that penguins are relatively rare birds , that turned out to be prohibitively expensive.
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As the Gypsey Race meanders through the estate it encourages and supports much wildlife and some quite rare birds .
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During the nineteenth century it retreated west of the Mississippi, and by 1880 was a rare bird everywhere.
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At the Cotswold Wildlife Park devices are fitted to their rare birds which are housed in large strengthened cages.
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He is that rare bird , the night-owl who likes talking without the prop of a strong drink in his hands.
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It is home to a number of rare birds and animals, including Grant's Bush Baby.
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She is a fairly rare bird .
small
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All he wanted was a belly-full of berries and a chance to bully the small birds .
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Quite the contrary. Small birds fell at my feet wherever, in my clumsy fashion, I trod.
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Many small birds travel at night when they are safe from attacks by hawks.
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When roasting lean meats and small game birds , basting is essential to maintain moisture.
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It was the bleached skull of a small bird .
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Suddenly I saw a small olive bird fly past, and I chased after it.
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Here I could inspect the nests of numerous smaller birds and their young.
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The future for the tiny owl in Arizona is even smaller than the bird itself.
wild
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The profits made by the sale of goods are ploughed back into wild bird conservation.
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The meat of these wild birds is dark and rich compared to that of domestic ducks.
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Two or three chicks surviving is about average for wild birds .
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The second group represented wild birds transplanted from not far away.
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They can even be frightened by wild birds flying overhead, which they mistakenly think are predators.
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Culmination, the longed-for moment when a wild bird would cat from his hand or perch on his shoulder, never occurred.
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The Qawrighul people hunted deer, wild sheep and birds , and fished.
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Beautiful wild birds unfold their silver wings.
■ NOUN
land
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A small land bird had taken refuge on the cabin roof during the gale.
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One of the largest land birds of the region, showing much white on black-tipped wings in flight.
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Of the 57 species of reptiles, land birds and mammals, more than 80 % live nowhere else.
life
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The planting has been sharply criticized by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds because of the effect on local bird life .
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But more stunning than the sheer quantity of bird life is the apparent organization of these hunters of small fish.
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The whole valley round St Nectan's Glen is teeming with bird life , a paradise for a young ornithologist.
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Its rich pastures are cropped by semi-wild sheep and fertilised by the prolific bird life .
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I was telling my own age group about something worthwhile: bird life and conservation.
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The dank and dismal cliff faces were hanging with squabbling bird life .
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The most immediate threat is to bird life .
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Day 8 Lake Baringo Join the launch trip on the lake to see hippo, crocodile and bird life .
sanctuary
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It is used by fishermen and is designated a bird sanctuary .
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Nearby is the Heritage Museum of local history and the Wildfowl Trust bird sanctuary .
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Perhaps the only way of getting a picture would be to take one in a bird sanctuary .
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Today, the site at Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands is a bird sanctuary .
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A number of bird sanctuaries were seriously affected by the spill.
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You can take a boat trip along the coast to Lundy Island, the famous bird sanctuary .
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Read in studio Thieves have stolen seventeen rare parrots from a bird sanctuary .
species
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The forests are home to 12 % of the world's mammal species and almost a fifth of bird species.
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More than 100 bird species and 35 mammal species have been identified at the park.
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The Amazon rainforests alone are home to many unique animals and to one fifth of the world's bird species .
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This has profound implications for our understanding of the evolution of sexually monomorphic ornaments in many other bird species .
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About 1,000 bird species are deemed at risk of extinction, and 88 of those are parrots.
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Individuals of many bird species give alarm calls when they spot a dangerous predator.
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Fewer than 50 bird species are polyandrous.
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You can see many different bird species on the canal.
watcher
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A small party of bird watchers rounded a bend in the path fifty yards away and I beckoned them to hurry.
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Rex was captivated by the sea in a way that others might be avid golf players or inveterate bird watchers .
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Opened 20 years ago, the Pembrokeshire Coast Path is a paradise for walkers, bird watchers and nature lovers.
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And bird watchers find quiet places to spot a heron or woodpecker.
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I became a bird watcher in Orkney.
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The disturbance and fear men with guns cause spoils the tranquillity of wild lonely places for both birds and bird watchers .
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It's the early bird watcher that catches the best bird song.
water
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The ice breaks, scattering water birds .
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In the north-west of the country, the Okavango River creates swaps which are inhabited by crocodiles, water birds and hippopotamuses.
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Rafts and rafts of water birds floated in the flat sanded estuary.
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Strangely enough, water birds are most abundant in the Dry Zone.
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And now gaily plumed water birds began to appear on the rapidly swelling river.
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The migrant water birds come to Kumana in April.
■ VERB
catch
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She caught a bird , plucked and cooked it, fed the meat to him in slivers.
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Finally, the bird , while searching for the mouse, accidentally knocked over the woodpile, which caught fire.
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It's the early bird watcher that catches the best bird song.
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Sometimes I caught a bird , and cooked it, or picked leaves of plants to eat with my bread.
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Specialists in catching smaller birds in woodland and scrub.
eat
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Crouching low by the wall of the stables was a black cat, eating a bird whose wings were still twitching.
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How to eat a small bird ?
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They also eat the eggs of birds and other reptiles.
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As for the blueberries ready-sweetened to eat , the birds get all that remain before the end of August.
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He once did a show on an Amazonian tarantula that occasionally eats birds .
fly
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There would be no room for the birds to fly , and dead birds would fall on me as I walked.
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So that's the way men fly like birds at night for military advantage.
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I never fly the birds in bad weather, which means sometimes Dawn goes two weeks without a flight.
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Most flying animals are not birds , but insects.
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Every Tuesday her fat little fingers flew like birds up and down the keys of the piano.
kill
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Vermin, he called them, when she protested at killing a sitting bird .
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Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
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Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
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Wind farms also take up huge tracts of land and can kill birds caught in turbine blades.
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It plans to issue general licences entitling landowners to kill unwanted birds on their property.
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In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
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Perhaps this boy knows something about them, he thought ... Something has been killing rabbits and birds in the woods lately.
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Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
watch
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Listening to the conversation, Trent watched three frigate birds sailing the on-shore breeze beyond the quay.
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And as I think this, I watch the birds circling in the sky.
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Looking up to the blue sky, she watched the many birds flying overhead, chattering and screaming as they passed out of sight.
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She grew up watching birds on her father's farmstead, she explained.
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Conradin watched the birds on the grass.
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When he was supposed to be playing football he used to watch the parent birds taking stuff to the nest.
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Signs posted along the narrow road that leads through sloping pastures to the cliff-framed beach warn motorists to watch out for birds .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bird-spotting/train-spotting etc
bird/beast of prey
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But Men persecuted us and other birds of prey like us were poisoned, trapped and shot.
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In fact, the only bird of prey I ever saw hovering over the park was a kestrel.
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Many birds of prey regurgitate pellets which contain the indigestible remains of their prey, including much of the bone.
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Meanwhile, the larger birds of prey were tucking into things like mice, rats, chicks and rabbits.
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Most of Britain's birds of prey are only now recovering from this long persecution.
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On 24 January he identified six new species of birds of prey - two of which came from the Galapagos.
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The diurnal birds of prey and the mammalian predators consistently have the highest rates of mandibular and maxillary breakage.
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You will have to pass beasts, fierce beasts of prey , and they are all that you will see.
bird/train etc spotter
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Here is the story of one of them, Derek, the most unsuccessful train spotter in the world.
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I suppose we're all train spotters at heart.
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In Leicester a group of men got up like train spotters were very excited to see our coach.
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It's a bonus for the late train spotter .
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What a field day the train spotters had!
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Why are so many train spotters called Derek?
early bird/early riser
kill two birds with one stone
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Deedee killed two birds with one stone, both shopping and looking for a shop of her own to rent.
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Adding five examples to the chapters that at present lack them would kill two birds with one stone.
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By promoting these new investors, Mr Alphandéry could kill two birds with one stone.
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In trying to play matchmaker and kill two birds with one stone, I nearly annihilated three.
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Lleland was obviously out to kill two birds with one stone.
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Thorpey said it'd kill two birds with one stone.
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Well, now we can kill two birds with one stone.
the early bird catches the worm
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's a strange old bird .
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The tree was full of tiny, brightly colored birds.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A small party of bird watchers rounded a bend in the path fifty yards away and I beckoned them to hurry.
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Animals, birds, insects, people were all pulled into the joke of life.
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Brood parasitic birds are becoming favoured examples in studies of coevolution.
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Fortunately most birds were not shy, in fact many were ridiculously tame.
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Ron Deacon is adoptive father to five love bird chicks, who need constant care and attention.
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The feed is examined carefully, and at the slaughterhouse any bird with an appearance of disease is discarded.