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Definition of Bird sanctuary
1. Noun. A building where birds are kept.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bird Sanctuary
Literary usage of Bird sanctuary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"... ni In i bird sanctuary, ... bird sanctuary southwest of Pusan, a large, flat
sedimentary island reachable ..."
2. Field Book of Birds of the Southwestern United States by Roger Tory Peterson, Gilbert Haven Trafton, Luther E. Wyman, Elizabeth F. Burnell (1916)
"The chief matter to which attention was given was the establishment of a bird
sanctuary. A friend offered to give one thousand dollars toward this, ..."
3. Bird Friends: A Complete Bird Book for Americans by Gilbert Haven Trafton (1916)
"The chief matter to which attention was given was the establishment of a bird
sanctuary. A friend offered to give one thousand dollars toward this, ..."
4. The Conservation of the Wild Life of Canada by Charles Gordon Hewitt (1921)
"BIRD SANCTUARIES A bird sanctuary is an area of land, or of land and water, ...
A bird sanctuary may be created in or near a town or city with as great ..."
5. Folk-lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend and Law by James George Frazer (1919)
"... CHAPTER XIII THE BIRD-SANCTUARY IN the eighty-fourth Psalm we read, " How
amiable are thy Birds tabernacles, O Lord of hosts ! My soul longeth, yea, ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1907)
"But I make bold to say that one of the very last things one would expect to find
in London is a bird sanctuary—a quiet, peaceful wood, thickly carpeted in ..."
7. Adventure Guide to Jamaica by Paris Permenter (2005)
"In 1959 she opened the bird sanctuary and since that time travelers from around
the world have hand-fed the regular guests of this bird diner. ..."
8. Adventure Guide to Trinidad & Tobago by Kathleen O'Donnell, S Harry Pefkaros (2000)
"GRAFTON ESTATE bird sanctuary, Black Rock, across from Le Grand Courlan hotel.
This is a small bird sanctuary on private land. The trails are not maintained ..."
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