(1) Birders the world over know that the best birds are often found in the most unlikely places, with sewage farms, rubbish tips and yes, cemeteries, all more promising than you might imagine.
(2) Following the trails through the campsite’s huge garden is a fascinating wander in itself, especially for birders.
(3) With the harrier comes what they call ‘the pig circus’ – us lot, the RSPB, the birders, the wildlife-crime copper.
(4) "He had no education but was a very intelligent man, a great walker and birder, a curmudgeonly leftwing atheist who even back then wasn't homophobic or racist.
(5) The estuary is a magnet for birders who delight in spotting both resident and migrant species.
(6) It really identified what a valuable resource Malta could be for birds and birders,” he said.
(7) The song-filled northward migration in mid-May has evolved into a famous birder festival.
(8) This autumn they have been recorded the length of the islands, from the north of Lewis, where a chimney swift was seen for several days, to Barra, where a scarlet tanager – a first for Scotland – brought birders flocking to the island at the beginning of the month.
(9) Birders Against Wildlife Crime was made for you, Sandy, so you can agitate for more legislative powers against wildlife criminals and crimes.
(10) Malta, a hotspot for illegal bird hunting, became the focus of a campaign by birders including BBC broadcaster Chris Packham in May , and the recent nomination of a member of the Maltese government as the EU’s new environment commissioner sparked fresh controversy over the country’s wildlife crime record .
(11) The park also offers regular guided bird walks for beginner birders of all ages.
(12) The researchers drew on more than a century of observations from birders as well as a 40-year historical record from the US Geological Survey, combining the data with 17 climate models.
(13) And as my old friend David Lindo – aka The Urban Birder – always says, to see birds in any city, you just need to look up!
(14) Barra came up with a grey-cheeked thrush, while a hermit thrush spotted on North Uist provided splendid photo opportunities both for local birders and for those who braved the weather to fly to the islands for a chance to see it.
(15) But while the arrival of unexpected rarities is a matter of excitement for many birders, with truly dedicated twitchers occasionally going so far as to charter planes in the hope of adding a particular species to their lists, there is a sadness about these sightings, for the outlook for the majority of birds when driven so far off course by storms is not bright.
Girder
Definition:
(n.) One who girds; a satirist.
(n.) One who, or that which, girds.
(n.) A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double.
Example Sentences:
(1) The refinery was working largely as usual, with steam pouring from vents on the complex of pipes, chimneys and girders which towers over the flatlands of the Humber estuary's south shore.
(2) Just offshore, steel girders poke out of the water to frustrate North Korean boats in the event of an invasion.
(3) Many are pinned down by huge blocks of concrete, bent iron girders, machinery.
(4) It was his first day at work but at 9.30am, barely two hours after he had begun manually counting the potato bags inside the steel girder compound, a Saudi-led airstrike began.
(5) Contractors are fitting gleaming walls of glass to girders which lurch at fashionably acute angles.
(6) "The podium for the politburo was there," he said, gesturing at an empty space surrounded by steel girders and a damp concrete floor.
(7) The structure is currently held up by iron girders put in place in 1947 by the British governor who ruled Palestine in the Mandate era .
(8) Several painted iron girders, stored on a field close to the farm, were determined as the source of the poisoning.
(9) The vehicle is believed to have been laden with 20 tonnes of steel girders.
(10) You can get waves off the ruins of the old west pier , where the steel girders stick out.
(11) When he brought the match to a conclusion after nearly three hours with a trademark lob (in a venue where the girders above the court are three centimetres lower than regulations stipulate), he fell to the clay – not his favourite playing surface – and cried uncontrollably.
(12) Close by, labourers scale the girders of what will be a massive commercial centre.
(13) It is believed to have been laden with 20 tonnes of steel girders.
(14) Among the features of the final stretch of the High Line – known as the Rail Yards section – is the 11th Avenue Bridge, an elevated ‘catwalk’ from which visitors can view the park, the cityscape and the Hudson River and the Pershing Square Beams; and a children’s play area constructed from the original line’s framework of steel beams and girders.
(15) There was no pavement, so as the traffic thundered past, we walked in the lane with the motorbikes and bicycles, many carrying steel girders that threatened to scythe us in two.
(16) Watson trudges past the heavy bags hanging from the steel girders.
(17) The students had ripped it down and the metal girders were twisted.
(18) Raising the roof, incidentally, is what the International Tennis Federation might have considered before a ball was struck as the girders holding the unbearably bright TV lights were a few centimetres the wrong side of legal height and a couple of Murray lobs almost bounced off them.
(19) Photograph: Sean Smith The entire roof of the palace has gone, leaving only a skeleton of red steel girders punctuated by tall trees.
(20) With its wood tables and industrial-scale girders and working roaster it's bang on trend.