broad-tailed

They are the broad-winged, broad-tailed soaring hawks that are more readily seen because of their habit of circling high in the air or perching in dead trees or on telephone poles along the road.

Rich Wolf: Boulder Predator Spotted in New York City 2010

The broad-tailed grassbird (Schoenicola platyura) and Nilgiri pipit (Anthus nilghiriensis) are high-elevation grassland species.

South Western Ghats montane rain forests 2008

There are at least five broad-tailed hummingbirds flitting about and fighting within 30 meters of the truck.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

(Arrenga cyanea and Myophonus flavirostris), the fine pink-headed dove (Ptilonopus porphyreus), three broad-tailed ground pigeons

The Malay Archipelago 2004

The chief of the village, a white man in everything but colour, sent me and mine the fattest broad-tailed sheep of his flock, with five measures of matama grain.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Our admiration of him was reciprocated; and, in return for our two doti of cloth and a fundo of samsam, he gave a fine fat and broad-tailed sheep, and a pot of milk.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Only added one new species to the route list this year… the broad-tailed hummingbird.

grouse Diary Entry grouse 2001

I had grown accustomed to my parents springing surprises on me, but habituation somehow never softened the blow and I watched sorrowfully as our broad-tailed Buick lurched away from the curb.

Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999

Multitudes of black, long-haired goats browse among the rocks; white broad-tailed sheep nibble the plants of the hill-sides; small oxen of the Hungarian dun color graze in the valleys; the larger buffaloes wallow in the marshes; and herds of horses, tame or half wild, roam freely through woods and pastures.

Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

The arid plains presented rather a Biblical appearance, with camel-trains moving slowly across the desolate landscape, while here and there flocks of broad-tailed sheep were browsing, tended by their shepherds.

Peking Dust Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917