"chimney" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The watercolors on view include migrating and year-round species like the red-bellied woodpecker, the Canada goose, the great blue heron, the peregrine falcon, the snowy egret, the northern cardinal, the chimney swift and the great horned owl.
- A nighthawk or an oilbird, a lone nightingale or chimney swift out of its element, nothing as large as an owl.
- The end of the world as we know it may lie in the breast of a chimney swift or in the blood of the tiniest mouse.
- Volunteers working in six-hour shifts keep minute-to-minute track of the birds' movements, announcing over their hand radios that "Ollie" is circling the Renaissance Center or "Bogey" is diving on a chimney swift.
- The counter acknowledged the arrival of a chimney swift - "a cigar with wings," as she called it.
- Dr. Dexter spent many years conducting research on the chimney swift from the rooftops of various buildings on the Kent State campus.
- The university honored his research by featuring the chimney swift on its official seal.
- The chimney swift of Asia manages to collect twigs by flying at a branch, seizing one with its beak and breaking it off by the sheer force of its aerial velocity.
- Mrs. Laskey, distinguished for her work in bird banding and in the study of the chimney swift, was a pivotal influence on his developing interest in birds and bird habits.
- If this was not where T'fyrr was being held, then there was something very peculiar going on in the old mansion upon whose roof she now perched, less like the bird she was named for than a chimney swift.
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