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  • As we left, a yellow-breasted kiskadee set off from the cannon, ascending in a great arc over the water, soaring high above the hook-shaped archipelago of the Great Sound toward the distant outline of Gibbs Hill Lighthouse, the beat of her wings thankfully undisturbed by the sound of gunfire.

    Losing Oneself in Bermuda William Lyons 2011

  • Another bird locals call "pecho amarillo" (yellow breast), otherwise known as the great kiskadee, used to sit outside my window and yell, "Eeee, Eeee!" at the top of his lungs.

    Studying Nature in Mexico is an Unforgettable Adventure 2007

  • Meanwhile, the activities of introduced birds like the great kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus) (brought in 1957 to control Anolis lizards) continue to aid in invasive plant dispersal.

    Bermuda subtropical conifer forests 2007

  • At half-past five a kiskadee shouted at the top of his lungs from the bamboos, but he probably had a nightmare, for he went to sleep and did not wake again for half-an-hour.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • Luncheon on the day following the kiskadee bird's narrow squeak for his life was a dreary affair for Mr. Fitzhugh Carroll.

    The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • A kiskadee bird, the only other creature foolish enough to risk the hot bleakness of the plaza at that hour, flitted into a dust-coated palm, inspected him, put a tentative query or two, decided that he was of no possible interest, and left the Unspeakable Perk to his own cogitations.

    The Unspeakable Perk Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • The greater kiskadee flycatcher says very plainly,

    The Facts: News 2009

  • The Arroyo Colorado Audubon Society takes monthly field trips throughout the Rio Grande Valley to areas where members might get to see the Altamira Oriole, greater kiskadee and other birds.

    Brownsville Herald : 2009

  • "Kiskadee, kiskadee, kiskadee," and the plaintive call of the whip-poor-will is heard across the eastern two-thirds of the United States.

    The Facts: News 2009

  • I was also imbued with Lawrence Durrell's idea of making the image solid as diamond, going beyond loading every rift with ore, it seems, as everything kept impacting on my sensibility: in a tropical environment of jamoon and blacksage amidst birdcalls of the kiskadee and blue-sackie and simultaneously engaging, if only numinously, with Hopkins '"God's grandeur" with dialectal sprung rhythms nonetheless.

    Geoffrey Philp's Blog Spot 2008

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