10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WATER BIRD»
Discover the use of
water bird in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
water bird and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Audubon
water bird guide:
water, game and large land birds, ...
Water, game, and large land birds, eastern and central North America from southern Texas to central Greenland.
Richard Hooper Pough, 1951
2
American Indian Fairy Tales
A description of the Iagoo, the teller of the stories in this book is within A social enterprise project, 33% of the net sale is donated to the American Indian Education Fun
3
The Biology and Evolution of Language
In this instance, Washoe may have simply been answering the question, what
that?, by identifying correctly a body of water and a bird, in that order" (1979, p.
895). The water bird example that Terrace discusses is drawn from the data of
Fouts ...
THE. WATER-BIRD. THE water-bird always stands on one leg, and this is why: A
water-bird once, in search of food, swallowed the King of the crabs, and the
whole tribe of crabs were so enraged that they swore they would have their
revenge.
5
Universals of Human Language: Word structure
event in the 65 minute 1976 NOVA television presentation from which this
example is taken, was trying to teach Washoe the sign for 'duck,' but she
spontaneously signed 'water bird' on her own and has stuck to that lexemic idiom
for 'duck' ...
Joseph Harold Greenberg, Charles Albert Ferguson, Edith A. Moravcsik, 1978
6
The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe, 6500-3500 B.C.: Myths ...
The divinity symbolized by a water bird must have been a giver of nourishment.
Portrayals of water birds in stone and bone are known from Upper Palaeolithic
sites in Europe and Siberia. It is the notion of hybridization of bird and woman ...
7
Australian
Bird Names: A Complete Guide
Tringa brevipes (Vieillot, 1816) [TRIN-guh BRE-vi-pehz]: 'short-footed water-bird',
see genus name, and from Latin brevis, short, and pes, the foot (also leg, in Late
Latin). It may be short-legged in relation to T ringa species whose feet protrude ...
Jeannie Gray, Ian Fraser, 2013
8
Modelling the Flying
Bird
12.4.2 LANDING ON A WATER SURFACE Just as a water bird cannot acquire
speed at take-off by dropping, as land birds often do (Chapter 9), so conversely a
bird cannot get rid of excess speed by pulling up before a water landing.
However ...
9
In Quest of the White Mandan
Patrick stepped forward he embraced Water Bird. Come my new brother we will
council together. Together both chiefs entered a long house with Mary at their
sides. Outside the braves and squaws mingled together, soon the cooking fires ...
10
Problems of Theoretical Psychology
This meaning can be represented as follows (where x = the meaning of "water
bird"): (14) fwater O vogel(x) = min(fwater(x), fvogel(x)) (14) represents the idea
that the extent to which the meaning of the word "watervogel" belongs to the
concept ...
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WATER BIRD»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
water bird is used in the context of the following news items.
It's 'baby season' for local water bird rescuer
Kuhl said her main clientele are water birds – "those that hang around or dive into water, and bird baths don't count" – because "that's what I'm set up for" but she ... «News Dispatch, Jun 15»
Waterbird enumeration from January 24
Here is good news for the bird watchers and nature lovers in Tirunelveli and Tuticorin ... The Tamirabharani wetlands support over 90 species of water birds and ... «The Hindu, Jan 15»
'Miss Havisham's Wedding Night,' 'A Water Bird Talk' shine with their …
“A Water Bird Talk” was more unpredictable. Loosely adapted by Argento from a Chekhov play, the piece takes the form of an ornithological lecture in which the ... «Boston Globe, Nov 14»
Alaotra grebe, water bird native to Madagascar, is extinct …
GENEVA — Alien fish species and nylon nets have led to the extinction of a water bird in Madagascar, a conservation group said Wednesday. The fragile bird ... «Los Angeles Times, May 10»
