starling
椋鸟,椋鸟鸟,椋鸟鸟类,星际
Definitions
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- : a chunky, medium-sized European passerine bird, Sturnus vulgaris, of iridescent black plumage with seasonal speckles, that nests in colonies: introduced into North America.
- : any of various similar Old World birds of the family Sturnidae.
Examples
Researchers have seen an American crow harvest hair from a cow and a red-winged starling in Africa peck a small antelope called a klipspringer.
One of the scientists’ tests was whether a wide pipe — called a baffle — around a pole would keep the predators from reaching a starling nest box at the top.
Their groups expand and contract like a flock of starlings depending on which player is doing what — and where.
I read that Michelle Pfeiffer turned down Clarice Starling in Silence, is that true?
Now people from all corners of the sports world are calling for Starling to lose his team ownership.
He wasn't returning from FBI target practice with Clarice Starling.
Jack caught a starling which was in the act of wriggling out of his coat pocket, and gave it a final twist.
The starling, which has been taught to murmur Evelyn's name, to-day shrieked out, 'Eva!
Your envy of my corner is wasted upon one who heard you singing a moment since, like the melancholy starling, 'I can't get out!
The Wasp Fly—dubbed with brown bear or cow's hair, ribbed with yellow silk, and the wings of the inside of starling's wing.
The September Dun—dubbed with the down of a mouse, warped with ash coloured silk, wings feather of a starling.