The size difference and lighter flight may not be apparent at sea, especially with lone birds, but a recent study helped to clarify other useful features.

A lone bird sang in the dying jungle.

There was a lone bird there, wide wings spread, circling, gliding.

This hit her and she stared up at the last of the sunlight gilding the lone bird's flight feathers.

A tang of cold hung in the air, and somewhere among the ruins a lone bird was cheeping.

Study of the lone bird discovered at Melância creek in 1990 revealed substantive information about its habitat.

A lone bird darted through the branches overhead.

A lone bird strode through the pebbles of the garden, pecking here and there.

Ten years later they saw one lone bird.

There appeared in the sky, coming from the direction of the city, a great, lone bird upon whose back rode a single man.