How to Use flyway in a Sentence

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  • Moreover, invest in hair oil and anti-frizz spray to keep those flyways in check.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 July 2024
  • The crucial habitat the flyway offers is facing a series of threats.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The state once shot about 25 percent of all ducks shot in the Mississippi flyway.
    — John Myers, Twin Cities, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The drought had substantially reduced wetland acres along the flyway in recent years.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • What is the Mississippi River flyway, and which birds use it?
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Five other migratory species visit the valley and foothills on their flyways.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Two migratory flyways converge over the state, making the Texas coast a prime birding spot.
    — Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 2026
  • New York City is a key stopover for migratory birds from the Atlantic flyway.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Found mostly in the Atlantic flyway, this mallard-black duck took on a slight green shading in the head and a darker, black duck-like body.
    — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
  • The virus did not come down the Asian migratory flyways that biosecurity planners had watched for years.
    — John Drake, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • The lesser snow geese of the Mississippi and Central flyways come in both white and the blue color phase.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The amount of migratory birds overhead varies according to what the weather is and where you are located along the flyway.
    — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Shorebirds fly thousands of miles each year along ancient and largely unknown migratory routes called flyways.
    — Bob Hirshon, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2024
  • In the marsh, ducks, geese and bald eagles are flourishing across the four major flyways of North America.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2018
  • But a sleek vertical surface reflects away the echoes, fooling bats into recognizing it as an open flyway.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The Verde is also a critical flyway for migratory birds and a nesting site for bald eagles.
    — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • About 2,000 sandhills are removed via depredation permits each year in the flyway.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2020
  • At certain points throughout the country, the narrow flyways funnel birds through elevated vantage points from which hunters can get easy shots.
    — Helen Sullivan, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Located along the Mississippi River flyway, the park is a prime spot for bird watching.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The barley fields draw every type of waterfowl that uses the Interior flyway.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The big chill pushes ducks and geese south as ponds freeze and snow covers grain fields in the north, bringing thousands of birds down the flyways into the South from the Midwest.
    — Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Another clue is that the county sits on a major migratory flyway for 17 bird species, including sand hill cranes and mallards.
    — John M. Barry, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Instead, it is called D1 and is from wild bird origin, that likely came along the migratory Pacific flyway.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2024
  • However, the bulk of the species calls the Central, Mississippi, and Atlantic flyways home.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Mallards have been breeding out black ducks in the Atlantic flyway for some time now (the black duck population has been in decline since the mid-1900s).
    — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
  • In reality, your local conditions and the overall weather conditions in the flyway are going to have a much larger impact on your hunting than the duck count results.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Chicago is located on the Mississippi flyway, and birds pass through the city on their journey north toward Canada in search of a good place to nest and breed for the summer.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 5 May 2023
  • Big geese are virtually unhuntable from the middle of fields in layout blinds in the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 Jan. 2020
  • In a show of strength, nearly 40 Chinese warplanes have crossed the two countries’ median line in the Taiwan Strait (right on the flyway).
    — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The flyway is shaped like an hourglass stretching from as far south as Mexico to as far north as Siberia and cinched into an 80-mile-wide stretch in Nebraska.
    — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2018

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