starlings in English

noun

1

a gregarious Old World songbird with a straight bill, typically with dark lustrous or iridescent plumage but sometimes brightly colored.

Blackbirds, starlings , green finches, great tits, robins, collared doves and dunnocks are all included in Cumbria's top ten.

2

a wooden pile erected with others around or just upstream of a bridge or pier to protect it from the current or floating objects.

The starling is that portion of the pier which faces the direction of the stream, and acts like the cutwater of a ship.

Use "starlings" in a sentence

1. The starlings made a clamor.

2. The starlings made a clamour.

3. All sitting, chattering away like starlings.

4. Rapid clouds of starlings flew over the seven bridges.

5. Waxwings, Starlings, Chickadees, and Titmice (Bombycillidae, Sturnidae et Paridae)

6. Blackbirds can congregate in enormous numbers, sometimes in mixed-species flocks with starlings and other birds

7. The starlings were disturbed, swirling around in S-shapes and parabolas and unexpected clusters.

8. It seemed as if the starlings had been hypnotised because they acted as if they were not being chased.

9. The empty ornamental pond was choked with rotten leaves, starlings blew about the place like avian litter.

10. The baby robins, scrub jays, finches, sparrows and starlings opened their mouths wide in anticipation.

11. Towards the central area of trees and bushes starlings streamed, alighting on branches which swayed under the weight.

12. Grackles, brown-headed cowbirds, red-winged Blackbirds and starlings form large roosts which create a nuisance in urban areas

13. He looked out at a pair of starlings hopping over the lawn, their feathers ruffled by the chill breeze.

14. They wish some of the arches of the bridge to be widened, the starlings to be replaced.

15. 19 The empty ornamental pond was choked with rotten leaves, starlings blew about the place like avian litter.

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17. The starlings have gone to nest in the hot-air ducts of a concrete and glass mountain in the city centre.

18. This has been demonstrated by experiments with captive starlings, using the technique of displacing the sun's image with mirrors.

19. Starlings, which are active during the day, lock on to melatonin when it coincides with the end of their activity.

20. It was this atmosphere that formed the perfect background to a display of starlings gathering at their night-time roost.

21. From the large ravens and crows to the medium-sized grackles to the smaller birds, such as Blackbirds, cowbirds, and starlings

22. Blackbirds and starlings often establish roosts in areas where they are unwelcome because of the economic damage and potential health problems they cause

23. I really enjoy the ingenuity of scientists testing optimism and pessimism in starlings, episodic memory in scrub jays and meadow voles, joy in rats.

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