Common black European thrush.
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Examples for "merle "
Examples for "merle "
1 There, awaiting him, was a dainty and temperamental merle , of the Tazewell strain.
2 Clinical results were excellent according to a median Merle - d' Aubigné score of 18.
3 Merle stood at the window, her face grey in the clammy light.
4 Merle had finished dressing, and stood looking at herself in the glass.
5 Morey tended bar himself since Merle Squire was at home with Lance.
1 Mrs Bridgenorth reads placidly: Collins counts: a blackbird sings in the garden.
2 A blackbird darted out of the hedge and away over the fields.
3 The bird that most impressed me on my walk was the blackbird .
4 Clear was the voice, and as sweet as the April blackbird sings.
5 A blackbird had come into the tree and was singing blithely there.
1 Another bird I love among the Alps is the dipper or water ouzel .
2 The bluebird was in the Yosemite also, and the water - ouzel haunted the lucid waters.
3 Closer inspection showed that the bird was a grey-winged ouzel .
4 Who can hear the wild song of the ouzel and not feel an answering thrill?
5 He is otherwise called the rose-coloured ouzel or starling.'
1 Colley means a blackbird; water-colley, the water-blackbird or water - ousel - called the dipper in the North.
2 She was a handsome brunette-indeed, the squire called her a "black ousel . "
3 Sang I, sweet as the bright-billed ousel , a
4 SO they journeyed until they came to the nest of an ousel , and Gwrhyr spoke to her.
5 He sang the song of the " ousel cock," but he could not make himself heard.
1 The voice of the thrushes (and our robin and the European blackbird are thrushes) is flute-like.
2 European blackbirds occasionally flock in winter and move from one country or area to another in search of food.
1 The morning blackbird on our kitchen windowsill is an odd sort of Turdus merula .
1 Off Merling Rock two days before, they had sighted a half-dozen fishing skiffs.
2 There was little direct market impact seen from the attack, although shares of theme park operator Merlin Entertainments MERL . L fell 1.5 percent.
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