Sentences with phrase «many wild bird»

Jim Carpenter opened the first Wild Birds Unlimited store in Indianapolis in 1981.

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For the birding hobbyist: Handcrafted by a small workshop in France, this Town Bird Call Set ($ 50) comes with two wooden calls that duplicates the songs of wild birds.

It's spread by migratory birds, so the federal government monitors wild birds in areas where there could be contact with Asian birds.

We will walk the dog together in the morning, then check the chickens together and the wild bird feeder, and then exercise together.

Still, you'd need to line up several thousand generations of chicken to get from that wild bird on down to the genetically altered meat factory that gives us our McNuggets today, but if you walked down that like you could easily see how the birds would start to look different down the line.

Despite the name, these tasty wings don't come from the wild birds also known as kookaburras.

K.B. logically explained that wild birds ingest these little rockets and spread the seed around by frequent aerial bombardment of avian excrement.

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The wild bird pepper, Capsicum annuum var.

Crossing studies indicate that the wild bird pepper is genetically the most closely related taxon to domesticated C. annuum (Emboden 1961; Smith and Heiser 1957; Pickersgill 1971).

Wild birds from game farms were not wild enough, and live trapping of truly wild birds proved nearly impossible because they were just too wild and too smart.

Is it not a compliment to the hotel and its staff that the wild birds feel confident and safe enough to come into this environment?

We have read that some people did not like the wild birds coming into the eating area.

Since exposure to wild birds and rodents is how these birds will pick up Salmonella, longer life with less biosecurity translates to a much higher likelihood that the flock is infected.

First, the chickens in backyard flocks live longer than commercial birds, and during their lives they are exposed to more wild birds and rodents (commercial poultry farms have strict biosecurity aimed at excluding «visitors»).

More ideas in the archives for feeding wild birds: Ideas for Feeding Wild Birds 2011 Feed the Birds!

Make sure to scan the areas around the pond in the enclosure, the deer favor this area for their rest, and several species of wild birds visit the pond.

Roll them in wild bird seed.

Among the participating retailers are Adesso, Bett's, Elaine Blumenthal, Erik Kent, Eyeland of St. John, Fell Co., Forest Bootery, Hiland Art, Magic Garden, The Silk Thumb and Wild Birds Unlmited.

While Hobbie was a traditional veterinarian for pets, he welcomed the opportunity to treat wild birds brought in by a raptor rehabilitator — who introduced Bill to birdwatching.

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Deer stalking, fox snaring and the trapping of wild birds and mammals are all equally controversial and fiercely opposed by animal welfare organisations.

Hunting wild birds in a natural environment is the very essence of the sport.

«We are also again asking people to ensure all the required biosecurity measures are in place to help protect housed gamebirds, including separating captive birds from wild birds.

The population of wild birds is subject to the dangers resulting from the presence of toxic elements in the environment.

FEEDING wild birds has become a near universal pastime in backyards and on balconies around the world.

«Existing immunity in wild birds is one of the possible explanations that may explain why highly pathogenic influenza A viruses do not become established in wild bird populations,» he said.

A close examination of the flu's pattern of spreading found that it did not in fact coincide with the main wild bird migration routes.

Such viruses have not been identified in any of the more than 100,000 wild birds tested since the flu surveillance sampling began 43 years ago, Webster said.

«Now, research is needed to identify the mechanism that has evolved in these wild birds to disrupt the perpetuation of highly pathogenic influenza.»

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

The paper goes on to suggest one possible way to manage this would be to attempt to create the desired version of the microbiome with probiotics or microbe transplants from wild birds.

«It needs to be part of the understanding of what wild birds might face in a changing environment or when we have them in culture or hold them in the lab for any period of time.»

«If these animals are in contact with wild birds, for instance, you create new pathways that didn't exist there in the past.»

H5N1 flu, first identified as a threat to humans in Hong Kong in 1997, spreads from Asia around the world, apparently carried by wild birds.

Most of the genes had come from a poultry virus that had existed in china for many years, and two genes probably came from a wild bird isolate, he says.

The team, including one of Giesy's former post docs, exotoxicologist and avian ecologist Miguel Mora of Texas A&M University, collected samples from the droppings of 108 cranes, including 22 wild birds.

The artificial absence of wolves and other large predators gave cats, dogs, raccoons, and foxes license to grow fat on wild birds from the beaches to the mountainsides.

N9 seems to have come from a wild bird, probably around Korea somewhere, although there's evidence for rare N9s in other birds in Mongolia and Siberia, where these migratory wildfowl tend to congregate.

Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by McGill University researchers.

The researchers then compared the expression of all genes in six parts of the brain of the two bird species using state - of - the - art molecular techniques, including next - generation sequencing — the first time these tools have been used to find brain properties related to innovation and problem - solving in wild birds.

«Brain genes related to innovation revealed in birds: Glutamate brain receptors, linked with human intelligence, are also associated with problem - solving skills in wild birds.»

In China, the team visited food markets where a wide variety of wild birds were on sale.

Since the single market came into force, wild birds can be moved freely within Europe.

Investigators from the RSPB and its Dutch counterpart have uncovered a massive trade in wild birds between China and Europe.

«The cases in Egypt make it even harder to say it wasn't spread by wild birds,» says wildlife virologist Björn Olsen of Umeå University in Sweden.

Though the exact function of TSHR is unknown, it may be linked to the domestic chicken's ability to lay eggs year - round — a trait that Red Junglefowl and other wild birds don't have.

One of the management activities that the park is really focusing on is especially on these woodlands, of restoring the forest floor and make sure that leaves remain, not raking them up and when branches fall, letting them remain in place so that they could decompose, this again because it's going to restore the whole forest system and also it's good foraging habitat for all these wild birds we are seeing here, kicking through the underbrush and kicking through the leaves looking for worms and other insects and other invertebrates.

To pinpoint the genetic changes that transformed this shy, wild bird into the chickens we know today, researchers analyzed DNA from the skeletal remains of 81 chickens retrieved from a dozen archeological sites across Europe dating from 200 to 2,300 years old.