black-bellied

While the aging mother can identify "black-bellied plovers," her children are connoisseurs of Yoplait.

Lost in a World Without Roots Pico Iyer 2011

The black-bellied golden rodent, he says, is Alsace as much as Riesling white wine and onion pies.

A Little Victim's Plight Has the Wheel of Justice Spinning John W. Miller 2011

Smart in their black-bellied summer plumage, sun bright on their patterned brown backs, they work their way through their chosen patch in loose formation.

Country diary: Benbecula 2011

Murtagh gloomily scanned the clouds, hanging black-bellied over the harbor, their freight of snow wastefully melting into the frigid waves.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

On Isle Grand Terre, LSU researcher Richard Gibbons saw a black-bellied plover, a skinny-legged shorebird, with oil on its face.

In Louisiana, wildlife shows effects of gulf oil spill 2010

Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together.

grackles, and ants, and stripers, and shorebirds, oh my! 2009

If we talk about a black-bellied plover, sometimes we mean an actual bird—that one running along the beach over there just above the water line; and sometimes we mean a category of bird, the concept of a species of bird in this case pluvialis squatarola.

The Nature of Technology W. Brain Arthur 2009

I had the honor to communicate with Norman, a Barbados black-bellied sheep, in a demonstration consultation at a lecture sponsored by the Ohlone Humane Society.

When Animals Speak Penelope Smith 2009

In savanna-like areas in the south there are several grassland-dependent species including side-striped jackal Canis adustus, serval Felis serval,, Grimm's duiker Sylvicapra grimmia and black-bellied bustard Eupodotis melanogaster.

Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo 2008