Sentences with phrase «pigeon uses»

Passenger Pigeon uses organic cotton, hemp, bamboo, ecospun and tencel fabrics.

While some studies suggest the birds rely on smells, the position of the sun, or Earth's magnetic field to navigate, scientists also know that pigeons use visual landmarks.

Homing pigeons use landmarks to guide them safely home.

Now researchers have found that pigeons use wing noise to warn the flock about approaching enemies — the first example of a nonvocalized alarm call in birds.

A new paper provides evidence that the information pigeons use as a map is in fact available in the atmosphere: odors and winds allow them to find their way home.

The main goal of the work is establish proof of concept for altering the traits of living pigeons using the template of an extinct species.

These pigeons use their skills to cross enemy lines and deliver much - needed messages, while also evading the nasty Nazi falcons that want to make a meal out of them.

It may be possible to fly passenger pigeons using specialized drones — but a more natural solution may be achievable using homing pigeons as surrogate flocks to lead the passenger pigeons from one site to another.

Pigeons use the earth's magnetic field to guide them.

And out of those eggs will emerge passenger pigeons — or at least birds that are a lot like the way passenger pigeons used to be.

Not exact matches

We'll use UPS, USPS, carrier pigeons, Pony Express, whatever.

A friend of mine, a straight hillbilly type from Arkansas who raised show pigeons, claimed he used to «have no use for qu ee rs», until he ran across several c0c ks and hens that wouldn't mate and then put them in the same cage because he didn't know what else to do with them, and then they started mating rituals with the same $ ex.

The peas used are called pigeon peas and are about the size of garden peas and are available dried or in cans.

Kidney, or red beans are also used in this dish, but during the Christmas season, only the gungo or pigeon are served in Jamaica.

Despite the pigeons, kale is one of the few crops we've managed to grow this year and having initially dismissed this as an ingredient, I decided I really wanted to use some in a bake.

The above recipe is with pigeon peas or Tuvar daal, use the same recipe and just replace the whole grams with split pigeon pea.

The name fava, however, is a misnomer; it's actually made using dried yellow split peas / yellow pigeon peas.

Since the Florentine cuisine has peasant origins, people use every part of an animal; therefore, entrails are fundamental in the local cuisine and dishes like kidney, tripe and fried cow udder served with tomato are very common, as well as dishes based on wild animals like wild boar, rabbit, pigeon and pheasant.

1/4 cup + 1 tbsp red lentils 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp chana dal 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp moong dal (hulled, split mung beans) 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp toor dal (split pigeon peas) 5 cups of water 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 1/4 tsp Aleppo chili flakes, or to taste (this was not spicy) 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 1 large onion, chopped 1 tablespoon minced or pressed garlic (6 cloves) 1 teaspoon cumin seed 1 teaspoon garam masala 2 large tomatoes, chopped (I used 14 cocktail tomatoes, around 1 lb) 3/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste

4 C rice (I use medium - grain; long - grain will work as well) 1 packet Goya caldo de pollo (chicken bouillon) 2 packets Goya Sazon con culantro y achiote 6 oz Salchichon (summer sausage will also work), sliced then quartered 15 oz can gandules (pigeon peas), drained 12 oz jar of Goya recaito sufficient canola oil to coat rice (about 1/4 C) 2 T tomato paste or 1 C tomato sauce 4 C water if using tomato paste or 3 C water if using tomato sauce

For a real taste of Joffrey's gamey pigeon pie, use squab instead of chicken.

My colleague Amiel and I had just polished off breakfast at the recently opened Hungry Pigeon when we dipped into 12 Steps Down, a South Philly neighborhood tavern where Amiel used to cook.

I used Goya pigeon peas because I couldn't find the nice don't - fall - apart lentils, but these beans held together perfectly and tasted great.

Pigeons are still the least expensive birds to use during these first shootingsessions.

This was one of the biggest reason I used Pigeon Baby Body wash Gel.

Since the 1940s, the city has leased the 10 - acre site to the district, but with the provision the site be used for trapshooting, firing at clay pigeons thrown into the air.

I started with research for a book, and that expanded into a vision of using the 2014 anniversary of the pigeon's extinction as a teaching moment to tell people about the bird and to emphasize aspects of the story that are still critically relevant today.

We started with a quick pigeon printout that I found on a google search (this is the one we used), the letter B on yellow construction paper, some black circles, and a white background.

Coffey had been hoping to use this endorsement as a means of pressuring another of the Democatic AG candidates, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice, on her tie to controversial former Erie County Democratic Chairman Steve Pigeon.

I do nt believe for a second Grayling's homophobic even though I don't support his views but as Iain says his opponents will use any seemingly innocent or innocuous remark and blow it totally out of proportion to pigeon - hole the entire party as gay - bashing, dyed - in - the - wool relics from the past.

The email evidence is considered key to the State Attorney General's case against the former Erie County Democratic chairman, and it was used to help obtain a 2016 indictment against Pigeon and others on corruption charges.

Frankly, using a homing pigeon would be more effective than the non-existent email service many businesses have to put up with.

The former state Supreme Court judge Pigeon allegedly bribed, sought out the operative due to his influence with his longtime friend and ally, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, though it now appears the two aren't as close as they used to be.

She is trying to do something similar for the dodo, using the genome of the nicobar pigeon (the closest living species) as a template.

John Stolarski mentions using stickers in the shape of birds of prey to dissuade pigeons from crashing into clear windows...

For nine minutes, you need a chest like a pigeon,» quips Uragallo, who tweaks his prototype suits in the lab, using a leaf blower in lieu of a wind tunnel, then flight - tests them while skydiving.

JG: Pigeon peas are already quite widely used, but mostly as annual crops.

This is the technology being used by the mammoth and passenger pigeon groups.

Novak wants to resurrect the bird using its closest living relative, the band - tailed pigeon, but how many genes need to be swapped to constitute success is somewhat arbitrary.

The first chapter of «On the Origin of Species» discusses the domestication of animals such as as pigeons, cattle and dogs, and Darwin then uses artificial selection as a springboard to introduce the theory of natural selection.

They tested this hypothesis using a multitasking exercise that was performed by 15 humans and 12 pigeons.

Calisi and co-author Matthew MacManes at the University of New Hampshire are exploring this problem using the reproductive system of the «rock dove,» or common pigeon, as C. Samuel Craiga model.

Hung and his colleagues collected tiny tissue samples from four well - preserved passenger pigeons held at museums around the world and used cutting - edge genetic technology to sequence the animals» DNA, as well as the DNA of a modern relative, the domestic pigeon.

In the new Biogeosciences paper, he develops a model showing that «virtual pigeons» with only knowledge of winds and odors at home, can find their way back to their lofts by using real atmospheric data.

Pigeons and rats, for example, are known to orient themselves using odor maps, or «smellscapes,» but sighted humans rely more heavily on visual landmarks, and so the study turned up some surprising results.

The model uses an iterative approach to imitate animal evolution by introducing random mutations in the virtual pigeons, making them most sensitive to those volatile compounds that are most effective for navigation.

But this explanation of how pigeons might use wind - borne odors to find their loft was just a hypothesis: Wallraff still needed to prove that the atmosphere does indeed contain the basis of the map system pigeons need to navigate.

We used DNA sequences from 42 Passenger Pigeons spanning 4,000 years of history to reconstruct historic population trends.

The experience of my science fair project was so rewarding I didn't give up the notion that de-extinction would be possible someday, and today I lead a project to use modern genomic sciences to revive the extinct passenger pigeon.

has published a paper in PNAS on June 16 (see abstract and link below) in which they use genome sequence data from several preserved passenger pigeons to infer long - term demographic trends in the bird.