How to Use meadowlark in a Sentence

meadowlark

noun

• Who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadowlark.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
• The flutelike song of the western meadowlark - the official bird of six U.S. states - is growing more rare.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2019
• The flutelike song of the western meadowlark — the official bird of six US states — is growing more rare.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Thrushes and meadowlarks and black-and-white kingbirds chatter and flit, and on hazy summer evenings, the hills soften to purple and gray.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2020
• From here the trail travels along a dusty road through a vast field populated by bobolink and eastern meadowlark.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 20 May 2018
• Grassland birds, such as meadowlarks and grasshopper sparrows, took the biggest hit.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2019
• Across ecosystems, grassland birds — a group that includes sparrows and meadowlarks — were hit the hardest, the researchers said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• There was an Eastern meadowlark and a Tennessee warbler.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2019
• Grassland-dwelling birds such as sparrows and meadowlarks have been hit especially hard.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2019
• Three tree swallows, surely migrants, circled over the pond and adjacent mowed fields while seven Eastern meadowlarks flushed from the grass.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 19 Oct. 2017
• Researchers are working with landowners in the state to preserve some of the last vital habitats available for grassland birds, like the bobolink, Savannah sparrow and meadowlark.
  — USA TODAY, 3 July 2019
• Among other birds, the saltmarsh sparrow and eastern meadowlark are moving from not listed to special concern species.
  — Michael P. Norton, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• Common species like bees, monarch butterflies, eastern meadowlarks and night-hawks are also dwindling.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 29 Mar. 2018
• Other birds that were spotted last week included four blue-gray gnatcatchers, three wood thrushes, a field sparrow, and five Eastern meadowlarks.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
• Aside from the cows, there are other visiting luminaries from the animal kingdom: elk, deer, bunnies, eagles, sandhill cranes, and meadowlarks, to name a few.
  — James Florio, National Geographic, 21 Mar. 2019
• Feral hogs are opportunistic predators, and will plunder nests of quail, turkey, meadowlark and other ground-nesting birds.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• That freshwater marsh and the native grasslands of the adjacent coastal prairie provide some of the highest quality habitat for resident mottled ducks and ground-nesting birds such as bobwhite quail and meadowlarks.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 22 Apr. 2018
• Birds and ducks appeared in the sky after long, isolated winters with no visitors and 40-below nights; those first arrivals of mallards, western meadowlarks, and robins were essential to my sanity.
  — Gretel Ehrlich, The Atlantic, 2 May 2020
• The total bird population in the two countries has fallen by almost 3 billion, with grassland birds such as western meadowlarks and American sparrows and shorebirds such as green herons taking the biggest hits.
  — NBC News, 19 Sep. 2019
• But sparrows and meadowlarks may be trickier: There’s no hunting constituency to rally behind them, and their numbers aren’t low enough to warrant federal protection.
  — Karin Brulliard, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2019
• But sparrows and meadowlarks may be trickier: There's no hunting constituency to rally behind them, and their numbers aren't low enough to warrant federal protection.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2019
• By the way, Kansas already had a state bird (western meadowlark), state animal (American buffalo) and state amphibian (barred tiger salamander).
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 5 Apr. 2018

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