"purple" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- So we had spent the day enjoying all that magic Minsmere has to offer - avocets and chicks, black-tailed god wits, marsh harriers soaring overhead, a heavy-flying purple heron, little terns.
- Deeper into the forest, towering above the green trees, were bare silver boughs where purple herons nested.
- A stately purple heron (above).
- Leading their horses along the solid footpaths they startled egrets and the striking purple herons.
- The more than 200 bird species that inhabit the reserve at different times of the year include kestrels, Eleonora's falcons and purple herons.
- Water birds such as cormorants, white-breasted water hen, moor hen, jacanas, river tern, ringed plover, sand piper, and green and purple herons are quite common.
- I saw glossy ibises, purple herons, white storks and black-winged stilts nesting.
- The reserve made history this summer when the first ever pair of purple herons successfully nested on British soil.
- The year had already seen several spoonbills and purple herons, even a cattle egret had put in a couple of appearances.
- 'There,' said Stephen, clapping his glass to with infinite satisfaction, 'the purple herons have brought off their brood again: the only pair in the three kingdoms.'
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