bronze-winged

Others, such as the bronze-winged cursor (Cursorius chalcopterus), Senegal plover (Vanellus lugubris), fiery-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus pectoralis), and pennant-winged nightjar (Macrodipteryx vexillaria) rely on fires to provide breeding habitat.

Angolan Miombo woodlands 2008

My ears were ringing with the terrible sound Imriel was making, and something else, some­thing that blew through me like a wind, a buffeting bronze-winged storm.

Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

Opossums and flying squirrels, kangaroos, (some standing nine feet high,) and kangaroo rats, emus, ducks, and bronze-winged pigeons, were the principal beasts and birds encountered during the journey.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

Many varieties of remarkable and beautiful birds are found in Australia and Tasmania: the lyre-bird, with its wonderful tail feathers; the odd owl-like "morepoke," which screams its own name through the forest solitudes all night long; glistening bronze-winged pigeons; strange and gorgeous parrots; and others, to describe which would fill a large volume.

Harper's Young People, March 2, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

A powerful and commanding God, stronger than the long-locked, bronze-winged one of the window sill.

A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

The nest of the bronze-winged species is usually larger and more massive than that of the water-pheasant.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

The bronze-winged jacana does not grow these long tail feathers.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

They are the pheasant-tailed and the bronze-winged jacana.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

The nearest approach to a generalisation which it is possible to make is that the egrets and paddy-birds are usually the first of the monsoon breeders to begin nest-building, while the spot-billed duck, the whistling teal and the bronze-winged jacana are the last.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

The eggs of the bronze-winged jacana have a rich brownish-bronze background, on which black lines are scribbled in inextricable confusion, so that the egg looks as though Arabic texts had been scrawled over it.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916