land-bird

Causes of land-bird extinctions in French Polynesia.

Society Islands tropical moist forests 2007

Causes of land-bird extinctions in French Polynesia.

Marquesas tropical moist forests 2007

"If it's a land-bird you are, to the land you go," said Jack and, changing the course, turned the boat to the barely visible island of Mallicollo.

ARDENT HEART 2003

It can boast only of moss, some tufts of grass, and wild burnet; it has only one land-bird (Anthus correndera), yet Iceland, which is 10° nearer the pole, has, according to Mackenzie, fifteen land-birds.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

It can boast only of moss, some tufts of grass, and wild burnet; it has only one land-bird (Anthus correndera), yet Iceland, which is 10° nearer the pole, has, according to Mackenzie, fifteen land-birds.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The chick is first a Vertebrate, then a land-vertebrate, then a bird, then a land-bird, then a gallinaceous bird, and finally _Gallus domesticus_.

Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology

Even before the trees form a wood, the sea-birds nestle among their branches, and the stray land-bird soon takes refuge in the bushes.

A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. Anonymous

The child, in fact, was afraid of it -- which was only natural, remembering what a land-bird he had been all his life.

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912

At Ascension, where there is no land-bird, a rail (Porphyrio simplex) was shot near the summit of the mountain, and it was evidently a solitary straggler.

Chapter XX 1909

As icebergs are known to be sometimes loaded with earth and stones, and have even carried brushwood, bones, and the nest of a land-bird, it can hardly be doubted that they must occasionally, as suggested by Lyell, have transported seeds from one part to another of the arctic and antarctic regions; and during the Glacial period from one part of the now temperate regions to another.

XII. Geographical Distribution. Means of Dispersal 1909