fork-tailed

• “The Strength of One Armis based on a dugong - (a fork-tailed manatee) that sailors, she tells me, used to mistake as mermaids.”

  The Huffington Post: Spread ArtCulture: Patricia Piccinini's World of Creatures Great & Small

• “The Strength of One Armis based on a dugong - a fork-tailed manatee that sailors, she tells me, used to mistake as mermaids.”

  The Huffington Post: Spread ArtCulture: Patricia Piccinini's World of Creatures Great & Small

• “High over them all, arched, black, angular, fork-tailed, and crooked winged like a terror of prehistory circled the magnificent frigate birds.”

  Simon & Schuster: Kook

• “I have only an index-less proof copy but, without too much trouble, I've found accounts of Leonardo da Vinci's obsession with fork-tailed birds, swallows as well as kites.”

  Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:

• “As I wrote in my 2004 book list back when I read it: "PI does not have white sand and those traffic jams at the gatehouse during the fork-tailed flycatcher's visit that year were definitely people who came to see the bird.”

  Archive 2009-07-01

• “That's why I laughed my ... off when I read in Mark Obmascik's The Big Year that when one of the competitors comes to tick off the fork-tailed flycacther at Parker River NWR the cars lined up at the gatehouse are there for the "white sand beaches" and not for the fork-tailed flycatcher.”

  undiscovered

• “And when there's a rarity like a black-tailed godwit or a fork-tailed flycatcher, the traffic jams on the refuge's one road are legendary.”

  undiscovered

• “I remember watching the barn swallows on my grandparent's farm, fork-tailed acrobats of the sky, darting in and out of rafters, following roads only they could see, living life just ahead of their bodies.”

  NPR: Ghost Story: Coma Gives Injured Biker New Insight

• “The Germans used to call it "the fork-tailed devil.”

  The Sudden Curve:

• “From the top tray, she picked up a small ivory carving, a fork-tailed swallow dark yellow with years, and stroked her thumb along the curved wings.”

  Knife of Dreams

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