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Fish and Wildlife’s John Buck says the project helps provide a snapshot of where birds are wintering from year-to-year.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2017
Whales are wintering off the coast rather than heading to Hawaii, breaking another ancient pattern.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2016
It was also during that same December that the fifty Plymouth Rock hens that we are wintering in the barn cellar, laid, regardless of the weather, 736 eggs—an average of nearly fifteen eggs apiece.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
We do not dare to hope that we have seen the last of our troubles; the Danes are wintering in the Wight, ready for fresh mischief next spring and summer.
From Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Aescendune by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
The Parthians are wintering in a Roman province.
From Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero by Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh
