Sentences with phrase «cuckoo birds»

As noted above, the term cuckold is derivative of the mis - directed parental investment of birds who direct parental investment to the eggs that cuckoo birds have laid in their nests.

Cuckoo birds have long been seen as parasites, because they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.

They found that nests with both species actually fared better, because baby cuckoo birds actually defended the nests from predators, thereby boosting the crow population.

The first batch of content will explore exploitation works from the American South, including The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds, a rare film from 1965, and Joseph P. Mawra's Shanty Tramp (1967), as well as a feature about Texas sexploitation director Dale Berry.

Volume 1, entitled «Regional Renegades: Exploitation Gems from the Southern USA,» will be guest - edited by author and journalist Jimmy McDonough and highlights Bert Williams» 1965 film «The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds,» a previously lost low - budget gothic horror pic shot in the Florida Everglades.

Whatever else The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds might be, it's certainly a product of the mind of Williams, who wrote, directed, produced and starred in the movie.

Add to that a partnership with Nicolas Winding Refn, which has gifted us two restored classics, including low - budget exploitation flick The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds and 1967's Hot Thrills and Warm Chills.

Anyone who values formal competence above all else should stay away from The Nest of the Cuckoo Birds.

I wondered, could our smartphones be like baby cuckoo birds that activate the magical bonding system I experienced as a young mother?

Luckily for him, The Cuckoo Bird Inn offers him a place to stay after his ordeal.

Eventually the drawings also began to include a wooden cuckoo bird.

After a few months in Home 2, I began to toy with a storyline about two characters, a toad and a cuckoo bird, searching for a home together.

Not exact matches

But those grim reminders of the old Soviet Union were offset by the warm Siberian sunshine, the bird - cherry bushes in full bloom, the flowering garlic, and the cuckoos singing in the trees.

The European Cuckoo, for example, lays her eggs in another bird's nest.

This particular clock is hand - carved from dark walnut, featuring cuckoo - birds and leaves framing a clock face with a wooden dial and wooden hands.

If these cuckoos become established in North America, the native bird population will decrease as a result.

Many Eurasian birds have evolved defenses against cuckoos, but cowbirds are less picky about choosing their hosts, and might threaten other species that are not parasitized by cuckoos and have no defenses.

I'm fascinated by the evolutionary arms race between the cuckoo and the birds that it parasitises.

Like cuckoos, African indigobirds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.

The scientists targeted 15 bird species, including yellow - billed cuckoos, red - headed woodpeckers, and house sparrows, which eat cicadas.

Unlike most birds, female cuckoos come in different colours — it's all part of a strategy to avoid raising their own chicks

New research shows that cuckoos have striped or «barred» feathers that resemble local birds of prey, such as sparrowhawks, that may be used to frighten birds into briefly fleeing their nest in order to lay their parasitic eggs.

Importantly, the study shows that a wide variety of cuckoos have adapted different plumage patterns depending on the area they inhabit so that they match a local bird of prey species.

The cuckoo collection is decorated with a design of Chinese flowers and birds, dating back to the early 19th Century and taking its inspiration from the fabulous Wedgwood archive pattern books from this period.

If you haven't got a bird warbler, children love a small keyboard (some have pre-programmed chirps) or, you could use a cuckoo sound (G and a lower E.) It's a useful song for all seasons of the year.

No matter that Cuckoo, an adorable light gray bird with stripes, doesn't look like his polka - dotted mother and siblings.

While the other birds give a soothing tweet, the aptly named Cuckoo responds with a definitive «cuckoo!&Cuckoo responds with a definitive «cuckoo!&cuckoo!»

Contrast «Go Fly a Kite» with poems about bird flight found in Jane Yolen's Birds of a Feather or Michael J. Rosen's The Cuckoo's Haiku: And Other Birding Poems.

The Cuckoo's Haiku: And Other Birding Poems.

The bird used to be known as the European cuckoo (because they come from there) and they're seldom seen or heard in South Africa, although their staple diet is the hairy black and white caterpillars typically found in acacia trees.

Typical bird species of the wetland Pacific of Nicaragua are black - crab hawks, roseate spoonbill, boatbill herons, great herons, egrets, pacific parakeets and parrots, hummingbirds, motmots, trogons, lesser ground cuckoos.

You are likely to see a variety of migratory birds throughout the islands: the Kirkland's warbler, white - cheeked pintail, zenaida dove, great lizard cuckoo, Bahama woodstar, La Sagra's flycatcher, Bahama mockingbird, thick - billed vireo, bananaquit, stripe - headed tanager, black - faced grassquit, and the Greater Antillean bullfinch.

The property is a bird - watcher's dream: look for Mangrove Cuckoos, St. Lucian Humming Birds and other beautiful bBirds and other beautiful birdsbirds.

Titles and subject matter refer to films, as for instance in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Viktoria in The Birds.

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These permanently protected lands provide important wildlife habitat for migratory birds including the Prothonotary and Swainson's Warblers, Yellow - billed Cuckoo and White - eyed Vireo.