ornithological

• “Our intrepid (if long-suffering) heroine Chicken Jane attempts to save Scot and Dot from a hurtling ornithological hazard in this short-u-filled classic episode of “Fun with Chicken Jane.””

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• “The three islets to the east are part of a national ornithological reserve; there are more sea birds here, including puffins and frigatebirds, than anywhere else in the Lesser Antilles.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Take Monday Off: Martinique

• “By the way, "zugunruhe" is a an obscure German ornithological term for the nighttime restlessness displayed by migratory birds.”

  "There's a shark-shaped fin, in the water of my dreams..."

• “A strange extension to this ornithological theme are the displays featuring a giant birdcage inhabited by a moody-looking half-dressed woman – symbolic, perhaps, of the anxious consumer, desperate to break out of their economic prison for a restorative shopping spree.”

  The Guardian: Christmas through the looking glass

• “His office is on the speed dial of cities, states and airports swarmed by winged saboteurs, especially the Canada geese, European starlings and European rock pigeons that perch atop the current ornithological terror list.”

  The Washington Post: Bird hit man loves his human-life-saving job

• “I assumed the larger bird was the female, according to the ornithological books.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “What kind of birds are those, Dad?" the Mannion guys and their mother wanted to know, as if I am the unimpeachable source of all things ornithological, an idea they picked up from their old man's habit of showing off the little bird lore that he has memorized.”

  Notes from the field: Vultures in the neighborhood

• “The extra spacing between the bird-name and the "kennings", for instance, reflects the gulf between ornithological category and the elusive, living thing.”

  The Guardian: Poem of the week: A Trace of Wings by Edwin Morgan

• “The lengthy memo the company published internally to explain why it was banning the use of the word tweet outside of an ornithological context.”

  The Huffington Post: Henry Blodget: Good News: There's Clearly More Fat to Cut at the New York Times!

• “The lengthy memo the company published internally to explain why it was banning the use of the word "tweet" outside of an "ornithological context.”

  The Huffington Post: Henry Blodget: Good News: There's Clearly More Fat to Cut at the New York Times!

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