Sentences with phrase «like egrets»

My group got up close to some Daufuskie wildlife like egrets, great blue herons, eagles, osprey, and even a dolphin.

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It is also known as the man o» war bird, and the comparison to warships is a particularly apt one — with its superior size and flight capabilities, the frigate bird harasses less agile flyers like pelicans, egrets, and cormorants until they drop their catch.

Aldo Leopold, an American ecologist, forester, environmentalist, and author of A Sand County Almanac (1949), once described this Colorado River Delta as a «milk and honey wilderness where egrets gathered like a snowstorm, jaguars roamed, and wild melons grew.»

Long - legged wading birds, like herons, egrets, ibises, storks, and spoonbills may choose nesting sites above resident American alligators, likely to take advantage of protection from nest predators such as raccoons and opossums.

Indeed, expanding the survey to include the bats» compatriots of the skies: woodpeckers, egrets, hummingbirds, and other birds, showed that the genome dynamcis of the two flying mammal species was more like that of the birds than the land - bound mammals.

Passing through The birds rescued so far include northern gannets, pelicans, a sora, a magnificent frigatebird and laughing gulls, along with a handful of unexpected species like rock doves and a cattle egret that are not generally expected to come into contact with the oil.

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Birds like great egrets were hunted nearly to extinction; but just in the nick of time, conservation movements were sparked, as well as some of the first laws to protect birds.