Example Sentences

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In no time, I was in unfamiliar territory: The sun rose over spoonbills and egrets standing in shallow water as a lone kayaker navigated fields of marsh grass.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Along the River Otter Mr Burgess tells me the beavers have created wetlands that now host species such as great white egrets and kingfishers.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

Along the way, you may see marbled godwits, snowy egrets and other shorebirds.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

She argues her critics inaccurately divide all birds into two groups, thereby mixing theropods' closest cousins with more distant relatives like pelicans, egrets, albatrosses and penguins.

From Salon • May 4, 2024

My dad volunteered part-time at the bird rescue, where he helped rehabilitate snowy egrets hit by cars and pelicans that had swallowed fishhooks.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs