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The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
Examples of nene in a Sentence
It is picturesquely situated on an eminence, two sides of which are touched by the river Nene, which here makes a deep bend.
It lies on the declivity of a hill near the junction of the Ise with the Nene, in a pleasant well-wooded district.
It is pleasantly situated on high ground above the south bank of the river Nene.
Through the sandbanks which form its bed there are two main channels into deep water; one, Boston Deeps, is kept open by the waters of the Witham and Welland; the other, Lynn Deeps, gives passage to those of the Nene and the Great Ouse.
It lies in the midst of the flat fen country, on the old course of the river Nene.
In the north a few streams are tributary to the Nene.
He also carried out considerable works in relation to the Nene Valley drainage and the reclamation of land at the Norfolk estuary.
Every February the adjacent River Nene is host to the Head of the River Race which again attracts hundreds of entries.
The first red oak leaf lettuces from River Nene Organic Farm are now going into the boxes along with wet garlic.
Click here for more photos and information Sitting on a lovely secluded mooring on the river nene, mooring is free.
It is also the first return to the Agency's East Anglian waterways since it was held at Peterborough on the Nene in 1993.
It is also the first return to the Agency 's East Anglian waterways since it was held at Peterborough on the Nene in 1993.
The 12-acre zoo is home to more than 80 animal species, including the endangered Nene bird and white Bengal Tiger.
NeNe Leakes - Leakes is married to a real estate broker and lives in the exclusive Atlanta area of Sugarloaf.
Fantasy art butterflies appear within the works of many popular fantasy artists including Nene Thomas.
Nene Thomas - The artist has been producing a wide range of fairy and fairy-related art for years.
A little to the north is the great artificial cut carrying the waters of the river Nene; and the neighbourhood is intersected with many other navigable "drains."
It lies in the flat fen country, on the river Nene (mainly on the east bank), II m.
The Fens, the flat open levels in the lower basins of the Witham, Welland, Nene and Great Ouse, only kept from their former marshy conditions by an extensive system of artificial drainage, and the similar levels round the head of the Humber estuary, differ completely in appearance from the higher and firmer parts of the plain.
Thus, from north to south there are, on the east coast, the mouths of the Tyne and the Tees, the Humber estuary, the Wash (which receives the waters of the Witham, Welland, Nene and Great Ouse), the Orwell-Stour, Blackwater and ThamesMedway estuaries.
Several thousand acres have been reclaimed from this part of the Wash, and round the mouth of the Nene on the south-east.
The Nene on the south-east has but a small portion of its course in Lincolnshire; it flows due north through an artificial outfall, called the Wisbech Cut.
Between the Welland and the Nene in the south-east of the county are Gedney Marsh, Holbeach Marsh, Moulton Marsh and Sutton Marsh.