adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
flycatcher
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The distinctive black and white summer plumage of the male pied flycatcher .
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For the male pied flycatcher , bigamy is obviously a successful strategy, but it also requires quite complex behavioural adaptations.
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A key adaptation in pied flycatchers , therefore, is the timing of their breeding season.
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A delightful small black and white bird appeared: a male pied flycatcher .
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On their arrival at the breeding grounds, male pied flycatchers find a suitable nesting site.
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The male pied flycatcher is unusual in using deception to achieve his ends.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Pied Piper (of Hamelin)
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A delightful small black and white bird appeared: a male pied flycatcher.
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A key adaptation in pied flycatchers, therefore, is the timing of their breeding season.
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Five pied wagtails landed silently on the white-hot sand on the far side of the square.
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For the male pied flycatcher, bigamy is obviously a successful strategy, but it also requires quite complex behavioural adaptations.
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He's a pied piper of sorts, being somewhat successful in drawing young people to the hate movement.
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The distinctive black and white summer plumage of the male pied flycatcher.
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The flashy gear turned you, however unwillingly, into a sort of pied piper of Western materialism.
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They now began to side with the extreme wing of the pied noir integrationist movement, which openly called for his overthrow.