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Meanings of kingfishers in English
Usage of kingfishers in English
1
Swans glide by with their signets, and we spot two flitting kingfishers.
2
Some kingfishers lurked along the watercourses, but they didn't let us approach.
3
None of the kingfishers are so brilliant in colour as our English species.
4
For kingfishers often move down to the estuary waters in winter.
5
You'll find the often brilliantly colored kingfishers all over the world.
6
When next in London I must get you to show me your kingfishers.
7
The auklet, the puffin and the kingfishers burrow into the friendly and solid earth.
8
The kingfishers were always in a hurry, and their colours were fussy and discordant.
9
So those unhappy mortals became the first kingfishers, happy at last in being reunited.
10
You'll see herons and dippers and kingfishers on the way.
11
The kingfishers do land there, and tend to fish from a nearby hanging branch.
12
We saw also several sea-birds, gulls, and kingfishers, making their nests in the branches.
13
Then there were little kingfishers and starfish studding the soil.
14
Already four little baby kingfishers have pecked their way out of the white shells.
15
Snipe are on every batture, and sand-pipers, with kingfishers and all the lesser waders.
16
They poled through the reeds so swiftly that even kingfishers could move no faster.
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