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- noun Plural form of
kingbird .
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Examples
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My bees, above any other tenants of my farm, attract my attention and respect; I am astonished to see that nothing exists but what has its enemy, one species pursue and live upon the other: unfortunately our kingbirds are the destroyers of those industrious insects; but on the other hand, these birds preserve our fields from the depredation of crows which they pursue on the wing with great vigilance and astonishing dexterity.
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We watched ducks and kingbirds, robins and crows and other birds.
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Eventually the kingbirds came back to their starting point and spread themselves out -- perched two on driftwood logs a fair distance apart and one on the mile marker.
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A bit later I heard a big commotion of least terns and eastern kingbirds.
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A white gull feather blew past me and two eastern kingbirds swooped on it from different directions apparently both under the misapprehension that it was a flying insect of some kind.
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A white gull feather blew past me and two eastern kingbirds swooped on it from different directions apparently both under the misapprehension that it was a flying insect of some kind.
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There were a few eastern kingbirds catching flies in the wrack and a couple of Bonaparte's gulls.
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After awhile two more eastern kingbirds arrived and the first one chased them off.
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The scissor-tailed flycatcher, eastern meadowlark, lark sparrow, and eastern and western kingbirds are indicator species of the region.
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The kingbirds had ventured into the least tern territory and the terns were having none of it.
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