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  • But if the Henslow's sparrow's song is slowed down to one-quarter speed, we discover that RTP was wrong: the song is rather sort of vaguely melodious.

    Mystery bird: Henslow's sparrow, Ammodramus henslowii 2011

  • The wood, turned soft in her hands, is warm, feathered, the song sparrow's breast a perfect curve.

    Migration Kari Nguyen 2011

  • The wood, turned soft in her hands, is warm, feathered, the song sparrow's breast a perfect curve.

    Migration Kari Nguyen 2011

  • Former Wyoming Republican senator Alan Simpson weighed in on the country's fiscal situation, saying that anyone calling for budget cuts that did not include Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and Defense were issuing "a sparrow's belch in the midst of a typhoon."

    44: Madeleine Albright: 'The Mubarak era is over' Felicia Sonmez 2011

  • But if the Henslow's sparrow's song is slowed down to one-quarter speed, we discover that RTP was wrong: the song is rather sort of vaguely melodious.

    Mystery bird: Henslow's sparrow, Ammodramus henslowii 2011

  • And this latest study said the house sparrow's weight has dropped by one-seventh from 1950 to 1990.

    Global Warming Blamed For Shrinking Species In New Study 2011

  • Response: This is an adult Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris, a grass warbler species that is best identified on the basis of its voice rather than appearance I think its song is reminiscent of the buzzing part of a grasshopper sparrow's song.

    Mystery bird: Ethiopian cisticola, Cisticola lugubris 2011

  • Taking over will be Melena Ryzik, whose UrbanEye emails are the sparrow's song I awake to each morning.

    Carr Gives Way to a New Carpetblogger 2009

  • She danced around them, and they laughed, and backed into one another, until the three of them were back to back and grinning as she danced a little closer, and just as one of them started to reach for her, she turned back into a bird and flew between him and the next one and, quick as the wind, tied their three tails together with her little sparrow's beak and claws.

    Melliflua and the Fauns 2009

  • Taking over will be Melena Ryzik, whose UrbanEye emails are the sparrow's song I awake to each morning.

    Carr Gives Way to a New Carpetblogger 2009

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