flatterer
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Observations of eight pairs of birds returning to the nest more than 300 times revealed that the females were the dominant flutterers, usually stopping to motion their mates into the nest first.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 25, 2024
A butterfly farm in Dunnellon has taken note of the decline of the regal flutterers, and is breeding monarchs to help bolster the species’ populations.
From Washington Times • Jun. 20, 2015
Professeur Bouvier based his report on research made by Abb� Cambouet, missionary to Madagascar, who experimented there on 80 big, bloom-patterned flutterers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To the list of great pulse flutterers like Toynbee and Spengler must now be added the name of Peter Schrag.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The flutterers are usually easily covered by a glass or the open cyanide bottle, and as for those that settle down quietly, you can take them at your leisure.
From Butterflies and Moths (British) by Furneaux, William S.