Geese, at times

Usage examples of honkers.

What worked with the wary antelope should work for agile honkers as well.

How he longed to see honkers grazing there, or pulling leaves from tender young trees!

The largest couple of species, the so-called great honkers, birds of the easily accessible eastern lowlands, went extinct first.

When Audubon had all the sketches he wanted of grazing honkers and of bad-tempered males displaying, he stepped out from behind the cy-cad.

Yes, he could hear the honkers drawing near, hear their calls and then hear their big, four-toed feet tramping through the grass.

Yes, they say honkers are gone, but the backwoods of Atlantis are a mighty big place, so who knows for sure, like?

Despite the almost certain extinction of honkers, other native birds still thrived there, as did turkeys imported from Terranova and deer and wild boar and foxes brought across the sea from the British Isles and Europe.

So I look up, and I see two honkers, Canada geese, the kind with little masks on their faces, a bird what mates for life.

It was passing late into the afternoon and still no honkers had touched down.

The automobile horns blatting six stories down sounded remote, like Canadian honkers flying high overhead.

In some swamps and fens the barbarian even spotted some antique reptiles, the great long-necked honkers and screechers like giant lizards.

Traffic was trying to maneuver around the roadwork, nonstop honkers everywhere.