whoopers

In the context of the glen the adult whoopers looked almost incongruous but still very regal as if in a domain they owned.

Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar Ray Collier 2010

"It isn't whoopers, per se" said Myra, struggling to calm down at least her voice.

MORE FROM GINNY BATES: CHRIS KASH-KASH Maggie Jochild 2007

But as the titular prince, Asel, faces his wedding day to the lovely Loreli Pepsicoma-Dodge, whose chief appeal is her nice pair of whoopers, black choppers fill the sky.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

If the foster parents could raise the chicks and lead them on migration, the whoopers might then have the advantage of the relatively short eight-hundred-mile journey the sandhills took to the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico.

Birds Out of Time Flannery, Tim 2002

It's a price we need never have paid, had we not first brought the whoopers so low.

Birds Out of Time Flannery, Tim 2002

But this was sadly dashed when it was realized that the whoopers had been thoroughly acculturated by their sandhill parents.

Birds Out of Time Flannery, Tim 2002

Today, though, the first whoopers came back-on their way north to hatch their chicks-and seeing them out there at the lake again was such a flashback, and made me miss you so much, that I just had to take pen in hand, as they say.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

Still, two thousand whoopers were two thousand whoopers-enough sheer feather power to stop every show in the nightclub district of birdland-and the crane census might have remained at that approximate figure had not civilization decided to do North America a favor by inviting itself to dinner.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

We mixed our brown rice with fishmeal-whoopers love seafood (minnows and crawdads and little blue crabs), and fishmeal is cheap.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

When only nineteen whoopers returned to Aransas in October of 1951, he managed to get the media concerned.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976