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  • adjective in combination having the specified form of rump

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Examples

  • (Yes, I know, the Yellow-rumped isn't a shore bird.) "We are at the end of the migration season now," Ranger Del Pilar said as she examined the tiny birds through her binoculars, and whose rumps do, in fact, flash yellow in flight.

    Birding on the City's Far Edge Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • There was hardly time for introductions before they spotted a Yellow-rumped warbler — actually a whole flock of them flitting through the grass.

    Birding on the City's Far Edge Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

  • Go all the way back to Aristophanes -- he complained in "Frogs," that boys in his era were doughy, partial to wimpy poetry, and fat-rumped.

    'Man up, Harry Reid!' Mama Grizzlies and our manliness recession Alexandra Petri 2010

  • The intertidal mudflats and coastal lagoons are important staging sites for migratory shorebirds, including red knot Calidris canutus, white-rumped sandpiper C. fuscicollis and Hudsonian godwit Limosa haemastica.

    Península Valdés, Argentina 2008

  • Paraná/Paranaíba interior forests are home to Atlantic rare vertebrates such as the golden-rumped lion tamarin (Leontophitecus chysopygus) and the brown howler monkey (Alouatta fusca), which have a few populations scattered in the remaining remnants of these forests.

    Parañá-Paraíba interior forests 2008

  • "It's a white-rumped shama thrush," Lionberg said.

    Beard 2010

  • We did have a new to us bird too, a yellow rumped warbler, two of them.

    One, Two, Three,… « Fairegarden 2010

  • The white-rumped shama began singing again, its whistling warbling song, and this helped him change the subject.

    Beard 2010

  • The major islands have such special species as the white-tailed tropicbird, the rare Manx (Newell's) shearwater, and the dark-rumped petrel, all of which seek crater walls for nesting.

    Hawaiian Islands Province (Bailey) 2009

  • A new dancer is auditioning, stacked, bubble rumped, cafécon leche and legs like anacondas.

    Desilu, Three Cameras 2009

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