How To Use Crake In A Sentence
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Quail did not figure prominently in medieval menus in England, although they are regular summer visitors, familiar in hayfields and cornfields and sometimes called corncrakes for that reason.
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When you hear a little crake noise, then you shall know that I am chilly and you shall make more fire.
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The craik amang the claver hay, [corn-crake, clover]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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Iffen yu downt gibs me noms now, I will kills dis cup crake dead.
Ur offering is grossly inadiquitz. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Binoculars are supplied so you can view the black teal, swans, dabchicks, ducks and even the spotless crake or elusive bittern.
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Aweel, on this fair day, Margaret the maid, the sister of Hugh, had craked and craked to be seeing the beasts and the ferlies, and her mother, the Lady, and her father, the Laird, were sore against it.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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In the months that he and Moseley were nagging their bank managers, Craker was being headhunted for a different job.
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Like other crakes the corncrake was more prone than most to colliding with overhead wires.
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It is an important breeding ground for little cormorants Phalacrocorax pygmaeus (15 pairs), night heron Nycticorax nycticorax (50-150 pairs), squacco heron Ardeola rallioides (60 pairs), little bittern Ixobrychus minutus (20 pairs), glossy ibis Plegadis falcinellus (5 pairs), white spoonbill Platalea leucorodia (6-20 pairs), corncrake Crex crex (V), great bustard Otis tarda and five other heron species with some 1,000 nests.
Srebarna Nature Reserve, Bulgaria
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Bird surveys have recorded 306 species, including black-hawk eagle Spizaetus tyrannus, ocellated crake Micropygia schomburgii, greater rhea Rhea americana, Brazilian merganser Mergus octocetaceus (CR) and dwarf tinamu Taoniscus nanus (VU).
Cerrado Protected Areas, Brazil
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The inspiration for the book had come while she was sitting on a friend's balcony in Queensland, watching the endangered red-necked crake.
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Then a nightingale began to give forth its long liquid gurgling; and a corn-crake churred in the young wheat.
The Dark Flower
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These two birds are so characteristic of the meadows in southwestern counties that a summer evening seems silent to me without the "crake, crake!" of the one and the singular sibilous rattle of the other.
Nature Near London
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You'll find eagles on the beautiful Isle of Skye and ospreys at Loch Garten, nesting red-throated divers in Islay, and corncrakes in Lewis.
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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The difficulty for Dr Craker, though, is that he would like to grow marijuana legally, but the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has so far refused to give him a licence.
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The wildlife includes otters, seals, salmon and trout and well over 200 different species of birds such as red-throated divers, corncrake, solan geese and a few pairs of golden eagles.
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And the larks trilled unceasingly, the corncrakes called to one another, and the landrail cried as though someone were really scraping at an old iron rail.
The Witch, and other stories
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Other globally threatened species recorded in this ecoregion include wattled crane (Bugeranus carunculatus, VU), which has its main breeding populations in the wetlands of Zambia, including the Kafue Flats and the Bangweulu and Busanga swamps, corncrake (Crex crex, VU), lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni, VU), great snipe (Gallinago media) and shoebill stork (Balaeniceps rex).
Zambezian flooded grasslands
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It was the month of May and in those times there was a corncrake in every field and garden.
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From the crake to see liangshiqiu's literature criticize idea was given the effect of the china west culture , especially in china traditional idea take dominant .
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Occasionally the spotless crake has also been seen.
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A shambling family of starlings on Coll in May, debauched and chaotic and moaning about winter, above a corncrake still stoking up the year with its crex crex song “endorsing summer” as Louis MacNeice says, with the “sourdine in their throat” as Andrew Marvell says;
A Year on the Wing
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Binoculars are supplied so you can view the black teal, swans, dabchicks, ducks and even the spotless crake or elusive bittern.
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Those whose musical creed is Time before Sentiment might have put up with this night-bird; for to do her justice she was a perfect timist -- one crake in a bar the livelong night; but her tune -- ugh!
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
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Alien species, such as rats, continue to devastate native species and are believed to been largely responsible for the extinction of the Kosrae crake (Porzana monasa) and the Kosrae starling (Aplonis corvina).
Carolines tropical moist forests
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The avifauna includes black stork Ciconia nigra, white stork Ciconia ciconia, golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, greater spotted eagle A. clanga (VU), white-tailed eagle Haliaetus albicilla, great snipe Gallinaga media, corncrake Crex crex, eagle owl Bubo bubo. great grey owl Strix nebulosa and Eurasian curlew Numenius arquata.
Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus
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Binoculars are supplied so you can view the black teal, swans, dabchicks, ducks and even the spotless crake or elusive bittern.
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Corncrakes, for instance, live in rank grass and high meadow.
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If dethatching is required, use an iron rake or a thatch rake (also known as a scrake) to cut through and rake off thatch, and to scarify the surface.
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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Now that they had replaced the damaged diapson crystals with the ones they had recovered from the Crake, they were able to fly the airship at full power.
Morgawr
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I hear my first corncrake in a patch of irises by a roadside croft and spend a tantalising and unsuccessful half-hour trying to get a glimpse of it.
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McCraken discusses various changes to the paperboard packaging the company uses as well as the incorporation of post consumer recycled plastic in sundae cup for the Australian market.
McDonalds Restaurants Sustainable Packaging
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Like other crakes the corncrake was more prone than most to colliding with overhead wires.
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Looking over the balcony at Cassowary Lodge, Atwood watched rare red-necked crakes scratching about in the bushes.
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This probably explains the names of the chough, crake, hoopoe, kittiwake, pipit, shrike, twite and whimbrel.
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We also fund recovery projects for chough, bittern, corncrake, stone curlew and cirl bunting.
Times, Sunday Times
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The secretive corncrake prefers to nest in hay meadows and other grasslands, especially those with dense vegetation.
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The report highlights the plight of 20 species, including the song thrush, the corncrake, the crossbill, the capercaillie, the dotterel and black grouse.
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The Church would like a priest to work part-time in Crosscrake, living in the vicarage under a ‘house for duty priest’ arrangement.
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Among the birds which have suffered catastrophic losses over the past 30 years are the tree sparrow, grey partridge, lapwing, curlew, snipe, skylark, corncrake, corn bunting, black and red grouse.
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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As spring approaches, many birds start to return to Ireland for the summer and to breed, for example, the cuckoo, swift, swallow, wheatear, various warblers and terns, and the corncrake - a bird of particular interest in the North-west.
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Freshwater wetlands in the South-West support sizable populations of several wetland birds, including grey duck, paradise shelduck Tadorna variegata and shoveler Anas rhynchotis, two species of shag Phalacrocorax spp. and marsh and spotless crake.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand
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Jacoby swiftly drew a poniard from his belt and drove it into McCraken's stomach.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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The report highlights the plight of 20 species, including the song thrush, the corncrake, the crossbill, the capercaillie, the dotterel and black grouse.
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Jacoby swiftly drew a poniard from his belt and drove it into McCraken's stomach.
RISE OF A MERCHANT PRINCE: BOOK TWO OF THE SERPENTWAR SAGA
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I collapse onto the couch slowly and in well-controlled free fall to give the kittens Oryx and Crake enough time to roll lazily out of my way.
Between Expectations
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Binoculars are supplied so you can view the black teal, swans, dabchicks, ducks and even the spotless crake or elusive bittern.
