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Sentence Examples
Raptors are known to prey on game species, such as quails, partridges, pheasants and rabbits.
Angela invites me to spend a day at the Connaught where I am allowed to gut partridges, prep beef and veal fillets and trim girolles.
Even the most parvenu journalist is, or should be, taught at his first shoot that grouse and partridges are counted in brace, pheasants singly.
Game bird rearers say the demand for pheasants and partridges is rising as more country estate owners and farmers cash in on the boom.
Deer, rabbits, partridges, pheasants, wildfowl and fish were tithable by special custom only.
For many years this bird was persecuted by game preservers who believed that it was detrimental to both pheasants and partridges.
Rather than flapping the wings from back to belly, as other birds do, the partridges flap from head to tail.
Phasianid galliforms are commonly known as grouse, turkeys, pheasants, partridges, francolins, and Old World quail.
Many species like pheasants, partridges, francolins, quails etc have been hunted for food and game, thus resulting in great reduction in numbers.
In her diary entry for 4 June 1832, Sally Brown noted catching two partridges, probably using snares.
There are wood grouses, black grouses, hazel grouses, partridges, nutcrackers, and others.
How it got in the tree is still a mystery, since partridges are strictly ground birds.
To determine whether the grey peacock belongs with the partridges or peafowl, more data are necessary.
Thousands of the partridges, a native bird of Spain, are being bred in captivity and then released into the wild in Scotland.
Most game birds are also galliforms, including grouse, partridges, pheasants, quails, ptarmigans, and wild turkeys.
Quail-like francolins are more closely related to Asiatic phasianids and partridge-like species are closer to Eurasian partridges.
Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges.
I watched lapwings competing for nest sites on the damp fields where I also saw pheasants, grey partridges, teal and mallards.
My private encounter with a family of crested firebacks, one of the many stunning partridges in the area, will long remain in my mind's eye.
The following winter census showed an excellent stand of partridges.
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I killed four brace of partridges, a wild duck, and a leash of hares.
To date, mitochondrial rate calibrations have been generated for geese, Hawaiian honeycreepers, cranes, partridges, procellariiform seabirds, and ratites.
The ubiquitous starling is one of the most widespread problem species but blackbirds, partridges, robins, sparrows, thrushes, and finches are also common.
Reviews the 250 species of pheasants, partridges, grouse, quails, turkeys, guineafowls, buttonquails, sandgrouse, and plains-wanderers of the world.
In Scotland, gamekeepers blame the buzzard, a protected bird, for the deaths of thousands of partridges, pheasants, and waders such as curlews and plovers.
The mammal species that are present include goats, foxes, anteaters, rabbits and bats, while the birds are hawks, partridges, daras, pigeons, troupials and a type of cardinal.
He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.
He said the most notable species are Egyptian vultures, larks, falcons, wheatears, owls and partridges.
In Central Europe, the diet in winter months is dominated by birds including quail, grey partridges, grouse, chickens, pigeons and passerines.
Eagles, falcons, partridges, pheasants, and storks are also native to the wildlife of Iran.
Migrating birds are very common and Gibraltar is home to the only Barbary partridges found on the European continent.
Mycoplasma iowae, an occasional pathogen of turkeys, was isolated for the first time from captive grey partridges.
Since joining the project I've never seen so many tree sparrows and grey partridges.
Since joining the project, I've never seen so many tree sparrows and grey partridges.
Red-legged partridges are more common now, and it was originally thought that they were causing the decline in grey partridges.
Although C meleagridis was initially discovered in turkeys, it affects a wide range of avian species, including parrots, chickens, partridges, and certain columbiform birds.
The big thrushes chacked and churred as they flew up to the relative safety of nearby trees as a sparrowhawk scooted by scolded by the ever present red legged partridges.
I eat my Venison With my neighbours in the Countrie, and present not My phesants, partridges, and growse to the userer, Nor ever yet paid brokage to his scrivener.
A reebok was tied behind his saddle and Jan Boom was carrying the carcase of a klipspringer, and a few unconsidered trifles in the way of partridges.
Pheasants were hunted in their natural range by Stone Age humans just like the grouse, partridges, junglefowls and perhaps peacocks that inhabited Europe at that time.
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We have European bee-eaters, hoopoes, red legged partridges, the white ibis who do us a favour by feeding on worms and bugs along with many others to numerous to mention.
Examples from Classical Literature
An agouti and a cabiai, not to mention a dozen partridges, enriched the larder after this fortunate excursion.
They scuttled into the nearest seats at hand like a bevy of startled partridges.
The imports of game are chiefly from Russia, which possesses in abundance partridges of various kinds, ptarmigans, and black game.
The Cordelier was as glad of that as a man who has stalked a covey of partridges.
Not having partridges to go after, he had taken to rat-hunting, and was as clever at it as a Scotch terrier.
Guzman, however, managed to embezzle a couple of partridges and some quails.
Yer see, when I threw those partridges onter the ground it brought a purty powerful strain onto my galluses.
He made very light of a brace of partridges and a bottle of sparkling Moselle.
If we chose to grow only partridges henceforth, and a modicum of wheat for our own uses?
The law allows thirty woodcock, thirty partridges, and two deer to every hunter.
This place literally swarmed with peafowl, partridges, and deer.
You may make a similar pie of pheasants, partridges, or grouse.
With it I have often killed a half-dozen of partridges from the same tree.
Two hours after he again landed at Pianosa, where he was assured that red partridges abounded.
The two friends sat down and Aramis began to cut up fowls, partridges and hams with admirable skill.
Also spotted were herons, bulbuls, parakeets, doves, sparrows, swifts and partridges, among other species.
Raw beef, thus relished, is their nicest dish, and is eaten by them with the same appetite and pleasure as we eat the best partridges.
Three great elephants, two plump partridges, and my lady's lapdog.
Lay it on top of your partridges, and cover with strips of larding pork.
We must now consider the partridges that patronise the hills.
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Passing now through woods they started a covey of partridges.
However, deep in the woods they came upon a covey of partridges.
Addison sat at one end of the table and dished out the partridges.
Thus, there seems to be little doubt that the stock of partridges, grouse, and hares on any large estate depends chiefly on the destruction of vermin.
At the end of his two hours, Kennedy returned with a string of fat partridges and the haunch of an oryx, a sort of gemsbok belonging to the most agile species of antelopes.
It was there that Egalite Orleans roasted partridges on the night when he and the Marquis of Steyne won a hundred thousand from a great personage at ombre.
