Sentences with phrase «blackbird nests»

«Cones, squirrels, and rusty blackbird nests: Declining songbirds caught in a complex web.»

The scientists ran three different experiments using insect traps, artificial nests and real blackbird nests in order to observe the attractant effect of droppings on parasites.

In addition to red squirrels, cameras also caught a hawk, a Blue Jay, and even a white - tailed deer preying on Rusty Blackbird nests.

«What we found was that red squirrels were indeed the most frequent predators of Rusty Blackbird nests, at least in Maine,» explains Buckley Luepold.

In the breeding seasons of 2011 and 2012, Buckley Luepold and her co-authors were able to locate 72 Rusty Blackbird nests and install motion - triggered, infrared cameras to watch for predators at 29 of them.

Shannon Buckley Luepold of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and her colleagues spent two years collecting data on Rusty Blackbirds nests and their surrounding habitat in Maine and New Hampshire, and uncovered a web of connections between timber harvesting practices, spruce and fir cones, red squirrels, and Rusty Blackbird nesting success.

Towering giraffes, shot in various U.S. zoos, populate a hazy, desolate landscape created from images taken in Turkey, Bali and Iceland; spectacular Javan peacocks from Asia are camouflaged within a Spanish pepper tree; and the interior of an Icelandic volcano forms the setting for a gooey tar pit where Peruvian yellow - hooded blackbirds nest.

Not exact matches

When Jody Dyer launched Blackbird Tees, an apparel company in Richmond, Va., she was surprised by the many expenses her business plan hadn't anticipated.

Don't forget to leave a comment here for a chance to win a copy of Karen Morgan's Blackbird Bakery Gluten - Free cookbook.

Now we have a blackbird family and a sparrow family that have built nests in our hedge and have fluffy babies that feed on the lawn as well as a resident robin and a couple of pigeons

I have not tried any AIO or Thirsties product, but would love to try out the AIO in the Blackbird print — too cute!!

Red - winged blackbirds do so for the right to forage on a male's territory, and Adelie penguins exchange sex for stones to build their nests.

This one island called Steeple Jason Island has 120,000 blackbird albatross nests on it during the year and about 70 pairs of striated caracaras, on an island that's about 700 hectares [three square miles].

Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) populations have decreased by about 95 % in the last fifty years, but the reasons are not well understood; it doesn't help that their preferred breeding habitat, stunted conifers deep in the wetlands of the boreal forest, makes finding and studying them difficult.

So although female red - winged blackbirds that nest in a good habitat may well have to raise their chicks without help, they are more likely to have mated with fitter males.

Because they don't peck, blackbirds served as a control (an unaffected comparison group).

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32 Northwest mollusks 404 Southeast aquatic, riparian, and wetland species Acuna cactus Amargosa toad American pika (federal) American, Taylor, Yosemite, Gray - headed, White Mountains and Mt. Whitney pika (California) Andrew's dune scarab beetle Ashy storm - petrel Atlantic bluefin tuna Bearded seal Black abalone Blumer's dock Bocaccio (central / southern population) Cactus ferruginous pygmy owl California spotted owl California tiger salamander (federal) California tiger salamander (California) Canelo Hills ladies» tresses Casey's June beetle Cherry Point Pacific herring Chiricahua leopard frog Colorado River cutthroat trout Cook Inlet beluga whale (1999) Cook Inlet beluga whale (2006) Delta smelt Desert nesting bald eagle Dusky tree vole Elkhorn coral Gentry's indigobush Giant palouse earthworm Gila chub Great Basin spring snails Headwater chub Holmgren's milk - vetch Huachuca water umbel Iliamna lake seals Island fox Island marble butterfly Kern brook lamprey Kittlitz's murrelet (Alaska) Kittlitz's murrelet (federal) Klamath River chinook salmon Las Vegas buckwheat Least chub Loggerhead sea turtle (northern and Florida population) Loggerhead sea turtle (northern Pacific population) Loggerhead sea turtle (western North Atlantic population) Longfin smelt Mexican garter snake Mexican spotted owl Mojave finge - toed lizard North American green sturgeon Northern Rockies fisher Northern sea otter Pacific fisher (federal) Pacific fisher (California) Pacific lamprey Pacific Northwest mollusks Pacific walrus Page springsnail Palm Springs pocket mouse Parish's alkali grass Polar bear Puget Sound killer whale Queen Charlotte goshawk Relict leopard frog Ribbon seal Ringed seal River lamprey Rio Grande cutthroat trout Roundtail chub Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfy Sand dune lizard Sand Mountain blue butterfly Shivwitz milk - vetch Sierra Nevada mountain yellow - legged frog Sierra Nevada red fox Siskiyou Mountains salamander Sonora tiger salamander Southwestern willow flycatcher Spotted seal Spring pygmy sunfish Staghorn coral Tahoe yellow cress Tricolored blackbird Tucson shovel - nosed snake Virgin river spinedace Western brook lamprey Western burrowing owl (California) Western gull - billed tern Yellow - billed cuckoo Yellow - billed loon Yosemite toad

The cook books are not only functional but bring in the shades of plum I am using in my fall decor this year and, The Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book is just perfect for holiday baking in case you haven't seen it yet!!

Based on a series of beloved children's» books not well - known outside of their native country, the film focuses on an elderly toad named Gordon — the chief of police in a small forest enclave, populated by a small group of rabbits, blackbirds and squirrels.

Run by Giovanni, Beppe and Carlo these blackbirds aren't just a pit crew.

Rooney Mara and Ben Mendelsohn act the hell out of this film adaptation of Broadway drama «Blackbird» — and still can't give it a pulse

««The Dinner» represents an amazing opportunity for us to not only work with and develop a new relationship with Oren, a truly gifted writer / director, but also to forge new partnerships with the teams at Code Red, ChubbCo and Blackbird,» Paul Davidson, The Orchard's executive vice president of film and television, said.

It would hold a top position if it weren't outflown and outshone by the HP Blackbird 002.

From the time of the British occupation of Massachusetts to our own modern world, family after family's lives are inexorably changed, not only by the people they love but by the lives they lead inside Blackbird House.

A book like Blackbirds has gone on to sell in various other countries (France, Turkey, Poland, Germany) and has had, erm, other licensing success that I can't talk about here yet — * shakes fist * — which puts it in very comfortable financial territory for a book most publishers seemed to love but believed they could not sell.

Perhaps I'm wrong, if so, feel free to correct me, but from reading your blog I get the impression that BLACKBIRDS is not the first novel you've published traditionally.

And its absence perhaps explains why HP's Blackbird and other high - end PCs don't yet offer Intel's new core 2 QX9650's.

You don't get your book in unexpected hands... I got to pitch to some incredibly awesome people in LA for films because they had a copy of Blackbirds.

In my opinion, the warbonnet Blackbird is one of the best hammock (particularly the XLC)(to not say the best one).

I always thought sleeping in a hammock would be like being in a cocoon, but not so in the Blackbird.

The Blackbird XLC comes with 2 elastic lines, one on each side of the hammock, these are used mainly to pull the netting out and away from the user, and to support the shelf, you can fully remove or leave these cords un-staked whenever it's convenient, they are not required to use the hammock.

Not to worry, the Blackbird came through!

I can not think of any new accolades or positive adjectives to describe the quality or workmanship of the Blackbird, not to mention the excellent customer service.

The Blackbird includes a full - length zipper on one side, the netting can be rolled back and out of the way when not needed.

I don't need a pillow in the Blackbird.

Just received my Blackbird hammock and I haven't had the chance to do any serious hanging in it yet.

Because the Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibits killing birds who are not actually damaging crops, Wildlife Services poisoned 250,000 blackbirds in 1994 as the purported beginning of a five - year «scientific experiment.

Al's Hideout — Deep dive (60 - 120ft) Not only is Blackbirds previous owner called Al, but it's also the name of a jew fish who lives on this steep wall with crags and overhangs.

«My husband and I spent 4 days at Blackbird and could not have asked for anything beyond what we experienced.

Here at Blackbird, you won't find a more safety conscious dive crew — as a remote resort our standards are incredibly high.

While Blackbird Interactive aren't giving away many details, or even any gameplay footage, the talent behind the game should be a good indicator of where the game could go.

The population of Rætikon is quite varied, from cute bunnies and butterflies through to not so friendly foes such as blackbirds and wolves.

But I ask you: Didn't Wallace Steven's use a list to structure his poem «13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird»?

In the new work, however, the doors are now barn doors, as opposed to the hospital doors found in his earlier works; the blackbirds, roses and daisies are all things he sees from his window, not images drawn from books or media.

90 % - The Horror The Turtles of my childhood were just small Sometimes I would get one for myself Sometimes I would just see one in the woods But then they sprayed with DDT and I had asthma and soon moved closer to the city Now I'm older and I saw a turtle laying it's eggs by the side of a path So did a black bird and after the turtle went back to the pond the blackbird stole it's eggs and thought they were good to eat Another turtle came along since then but I don't think it laid any eggs.

The island «garden» will also include several sculptural «nests» based on the nests of birds that might be found in the Basin; Moorhens, Herons, and Blackbirds.

Maybe it was the the same turtle and was despondent because the blackbird stole it's eggs I've never seen a leatherback unless maybe when I was young and went to the zoo, probably then I've eaten turtle soup, not sure if it was made from Leatherbacks or farmed turtles of another sort.

«Is it politically reprehensible, while we are all groaning, or at any rate ought to be groaning, under the shackles of the capitalist system, to point out that life is frequently more worth living because of a blackbird's song, a yellow elm tree in October, or some other natural phenomenon which does not cost money and does not have what the editors of left - wing newspapers call a class angle?

If you look at the Google map Xeni posted earlier today, you'll see that most of the mass animal deaths marked aren't blackbirds.