Sentences with phrase «among smaller birds»

To improve their results, they practice «pishing,» which involves imitating certain bird calls (mainly those of predators such as the Scops owl in the American East) to trigger reactions among smaller birds, who will give their alarm call and start to move, making them easier to spot.

However, a new study has confirmed that this unique characteristic can also be seen among smaller birds such as the Eurasian siskin, a bird which is able to form bonds that last for a number of years as well as travel long distances in the company of these birds.

Not exact matches

Jesus tells us that though the mustard seed is small it will grow, and the birds of the air will shelter among its branches; though much of the seed is wasted, some seed will fall on the good soil and will bring forth fruit abundantly.

Among the various kinds I can mention only the pimmt - cafe, or «coffee - pepper,» larger but about the same shape as a grain of Liberian coffee, violet - red at one end; the piment - zoueseau, or bird - pepper, small and long and scarlet; — and the piment - capresse, very large, pointed at one end, and bag - shaped at the other.

Among the questions that this study raises are whether the surprisingly large number of neurons in bird brains comes at a correspondingly large energetic cost, and whether the small neurons in bird brains are a response to selection for small body size due to flight, or possibly the ancestral way of adding neurons to the brain — from which mammals, not birds, may have diverged.

The evolutionary line leading to birds kept experimenting with different, often radically smaller, body sizes — enabling new body «designs» and adaptations to arise more rapidly than among larger dinosaurs.

Greenfeather Bird Supply, LLC, in West Hartford, Conn., is among the companies answering the call for earth - friendly toys for birds and small animals, and according to owner Dena Tucker, the company produced the first line of bird toys to receive the «certified made in the USA» designatBird Supply, LLC, in West Hartford, Conn., is among the companies answering the call for earth - friendly toys for birds and small animals, and according to owner Dena Tucker, the company produced the first line of bird toys to receive the «certified made in the USA» designatbird toys to receive the «certified made in the USA» designation.

In fact, registrations eventually soared to place the Brittany among the top 20 in popularity, no doubt because of its bird - hunting abilities, close - ranging hunting style, small size and tractable nature.

The laundry list of illnesses includes respiratory infections and parasites, which can make the rounds among small mammals, reptiles and birds as well.

Ingolfshofdi is a small, 76 meters high rock island with thousands of nesting sea birds, among which the Atlantic puffin.

Among the birds, we'll have a chance to observe wild ducks, wild hens (Shansho), toucans, macaws, small parrots, herons, the kingfisher, monkeys and ma

Among the birds, we'll have a chance to observe wild ducks, wild hens (Shansho), toucans, macaws, small parrots, herons, the kingfisher, monkeys and many other species.

The Gili Meno Bird Park hosts, among others, parrots, peacocks, pheasants, pelicans and small eagles.

The room leads out into the garden where there is a small terrace among the trees, where guests can relax and enjoy the bird life.

Although there is a terrific late -»60s painting by Robert Bechtle (a white man at the door of a white T - Bird in front of a white stucco house), an impressive Schnabelesque painting by the African painter Ouattara and some big sculptures by Kos (a meditation on the largest bell in the world), Ireland («Ex Cathedra,» a giant white chair) and Jonathan Borofsky (his ubiquitous «Hammering Man»), the greatest pleasures will be found among smaller works, particularly works on paper.

Why the large animals and all dinosaurs, many birds, many shallow water marine shelled organisms among others, to the exclusion of insects, small mammals, lagoonal, swamp and estruarine animals and plants such as alligators, frogs, turtles, etc?