Voorbeelden van covey

• Covey proclaims that values govern people's behavior, but principles ultimately determine the consequences.

• An average covey consists of eight birds, just parents and their offspring, and coveys bigger than 25 birds have been reported.

• The call consists of runs of soft whistle for rallying the scattered covey.

• The covey quickly reunites by the constant call of the members to one another.

• More often, these codes are impulsively discharged to covey a message.

• A group of quail is often referred to as a covey.

• A search immediately began; and a covey of escorts flushed out the enemy submersible and sank her in a determined attack.

• Covey adamantly refuses to conflate principles and values; he sees principles as external natural laws, while values remain internal and subjective.

• A target is to establish a covey of grey partridge on the farm.

• Chicks join their parents in foraging and will soon join the chicks of other members of the covey.

• Pointing dogs excel on covey type birds such as bobwhite, quail, and grouse as these birds will hold in position well, allowing the hunter to approach and get into position.

• There were instances when the railway line was deliberately put into a tunnel quite unnecessarily in order to avoid disturbing game coveys.

• There had been 12 coveys of partridges in the field and there was not one left.

• The winter home ranges of scaled quail coveys varied from 24 to 84 acres (9.633.6 ha).

• Loafing cover: scaled quail coveys occupy loafing or resting cover after early morning feeding periods.