Sentences with phrase «of warble»

For example, populations of warbling vireos (Vireo gilvus) dropped only 8.7 % when they contracted WNV.

Then we both charged into a grassy old New Jersey orchard on the trail of a warbling vireo.

From 2.7 litres of snarling flat six, the Boxster has been downgraded to 2.0 litres of warbling flat four.

Not in the way of yapping or barking but rather because they have a large repertoire of vocalizations, with nuances of warbles, grumbles, groans and chortles that only immediate family can decifer.

The Catbird's vocal repertoire is extremely varied and I would not attempt to describe it here, but it is capable of warbling song, clicks, clucks, buzzes, and of course meows!

And I threw my fist in the air triumphantly after repairing an old radio, then deciphered the meaning of its warbled audio.

Not exact matches

As I write, birds whistle and warble back and forth to each other in the lush woods surrounding our tidy little rental in the lakeside town of Ajijic, on the Central Mexican Plateau.

His choice, warbled along with an organ accompaniment, is nothing else but one of the classic 1970s youth group / holding hands / end of retreat monstrosities called «Pass it On»:

Jodi Belshe of Overland Park, KS, was appalled when she heard her 10 - year - old mindlessly singing Katy Perry's song «California Gurls,» warbling lyrics about women wearing «Daisy Dukes, bikinis on top.»

Maybe warbled a few versus of «If I Had a Hammer?»

That will cause some of the light to warble out through an exit called a dark port in synchrony with undulations of the wave.

THE warbling sound of the dial - up modem could soon make a comeback — but it won't take us back to an era of superslow internet access.

Eduardo Miranda shuts the door of his study, leaving two «warbling» robots to their own devices.

The birds did nothing when they heard a repeating, but nonrecursive series like «warble, rattle, warble, rattle,» the team reports in the 27 April issue of Nature.

The researchers composed 16 artificial starling songs consisting of different «warbles» and «rattles» from a live bird.

After several months of training, 9 of 11 starlings had learned to peck a lever for a food reward when they heard recursive variations of the phrase «warble, rattle.»

The average number of play bouts per bird monitored was 20 times higher and the length of play 90-fold longer during the warble recordings.

Flushing the digestive tracts of captured birds revealed that two seed generalists, Common Diuca - Finch and Rufous - collared Sparrow, adjusted their diet accordingly and ate more forb seeds at grazed sites, while grass seed specialists Many - colored Chaco Finch and Ringed Warbling - Finch did not.

Minus 1 and his companions in that SAG group were probably producing sounds that have been described as «scream calls, warbles, gunshots, noisy blows, and up - calls,» and the watching humans in the air can hear none of them.

If one of you can nail a warbling soprano and one of your team can belt out the baritone, you're onto a winner.

crooned about the merits of respect, they weren't just warbling on about any old nonsense.

It's all so sweet and lite that it bounces off you like a cool breeze from the Aegean, and even though the stars are not known as singers at least they are appealing, try hard to make it work and their warbling doesn't ruin any of the ABBA material; and, furthermore, Streep is around to make herself so lovably vulnerable and sings the title song «Mamma Mia!»

The story surrounding all this warbling, however, was the standard one of a gang of thugs interfering with the building of the telegraph.

While we're ecstatic that Avatar's loathsome original song didn't warble it's way into an Oscar nomination, those blue aliens and a few others did squeeze out a few of our favorites.

Luckily, the stars are up to the challenge, and their renditions, complete with occasional misplaced warbles and swallowed notes, are a potent reminder of the film's stage roots.

As soon as action jumps to the present day with a warbling youngster, her hot sister, and our troubled hero, however, any pretense of a creepy, coherent mythology flies out the window as the flick devolves into an inexorable - killer flick amped - up to «11.»

Even if you can get past wacko Jacko's warblings, Fred Claus is a film with plenty of other failings, ranging from a flawed premise to questionable casting to a dearth of mirth to its lasting way too long.

Payne wallows in this hick sideshow: There's a long shot of the extended family gawking like lobotomy patients at a sports game, while another scene set in a supremely tacky restaurant / karaoke bar finds Stacy Keach — as an old, bullying business partner — warbling out a painful rendition of «In The Ghetto.»

She may consider herself a coloratura soprano, but her atrocious warbling hits all of the wrong notes.

Princess Merida, however, voiced by Kelly Macdonald of «Boardwalk Empire,» isn't the wilting - flower type of princess who warbles into wishing wells or slips the royal tootsies into glass slippers.

Mere months after her breakout role opposite Chris O'Donnell in «Circle of Friends,» Minnie Driver briefly turned up in «GoldenEye» — playing Russian gangster Valentin Zukovsky's mistress and unglamorously warbling Tammy Wynette's classic «Stand By Your Man.»

From Julie Andrews warbling on a mountaintop to the time «Harry and the Hendersons» walked away with a handful of gold, here are all the Academy's biggest blunders in one handy list.

Off they go, a glossy whirlwind of synchronised dancing and warbling X Factor harmonies, to be dumped in the path of dastardly - and instrument - wielding - rival outfits and dreamboat flirtations.

Across the pond, Nina Hoss mercilessly snatched ownership of «Speak Low» away from the late Kurt Weill, her warbling rendition of the jazz standard playing a key role in one of the greatest final scenes ever shot.

In Stonewall, a hunky football player boards a Greyhound in an all - American, cornfields - and - horn - rimmed - glasses picture of the mid-century Midwest, and arrives in a New York of Lou Reed characters, where coverage of the Apollo space program warbles out of every black - and - white TV set and J. Edgar Hoover haunts the...

Woody makes a rare foray into the world of musicals, in which actors not known for their soft - shoe or songbird voices (Drew Barrymore, Alan Alda, Edward Norton, the director himself) start dancing and warbling at the drop of a hat.

Then, when he finds her, she's indecisive, poignantly warbling «On the Steps of the Palace.»

Allen himself is by no means OK, but he sort of talk - sings his song, which makes his warbling less offensive.

Everyone else is singing the song of angry men; he's warbling on about Cosette, having rather frivolously fallen in love with her on the strength of a single glimpse.

The people in those tickytacky houses were all made out of «ticky - tacky,» she warbled, and «they come out all the same.»

A strained, warbling, almost comedic instance of a man screaming in fear.

The latest generation Focus RS no longer has the warbling in - line 5 - cylinder engine that bestowed the MK2 with huge amounts of charm.

As you accelerate, a deep warble emanates from the engine bay that's occasionally reminiscent of Porsche's current turbocharged flat - six in the Carrera.

In front of us, there's a 20 - mile two - lane route warbling up the back side of Mount Tamalpais, a 2,500 - foot - high peak outside of San Francisco.

Drivers brought up on the characterful offbeat warble of older T5 - badged Volvos will find the 2 - litre's bland engine note rather underwhelming.

It didn't have the same Italian cool, but its flat - four burr was to become as iconic as the Lancia's wheelarches or the five - cylinder warble of the Quattro.

It's a melodic noise, a hint of five - cylinder warble but richer and more complex, and when you blip the throttle the turbine - smooth howl is like nothing else on earth.

The diesel V6 emitted a sporty warble under load, but was also free of the sort of harsh, labouring vibration often encountered in diesels at lower revs, whether cruising or slogging uphill in a high gear.

Characterful and powerful though the warbling old five - and six - potters were, they now lag behind the exhaust emissions of their ultra-efficient German counterparts.

We reckon the eight - cylinder warble is worth of price of admission alone.