Sentences with phrase «as bird food»

Peanuts (for particular wild - bird feeds) and sunflower seeds are sold as bird food as well, but the processing is slightly different, as is the case with hemp seeds.

For example, clicking on the Pet category brings up relevant items such as bird food, cat food, cat litter, and dog food.

Not exact matches

Is it right for a man to be as care - free as a bird, and even to surpass these creatures in unconcern, since they fly hither and thither in search of food?

There the words used are mostly words of only one or two syllables — such words as life, food, body, clothing, birds, lilies, grass.

Eating Bird Food (as always) has a great write up and round up of several different salad recipes so this will never get old.

Organic birds have good old fashioned flavor, and I treat them as the celebration food roast chicken once was - perfect for a Sunday supper, plus a couple of bonus meals during the week.

As I hinted, I've been using Birds Eye Vegetables in my covert parental plan to encourage my teens to embrace new foods.

The prepared foods division of Simmons is a farm - to - fork poultry producer operating three hatcheries and two feed mills, as well as more than 20 managed firms raising 200 million birds a year.

The provision of structures providing food and shelter, and the lack of pesticide use, attract new or re-colonizing species to the organic area (both permanent and migratory), including wild flora and fauna (e.g. birds) and organisms beneficial to the organic system such as pollinators and pest predators.

And those look like thai birds eye chilis to me, I grew them this year as i currently have an obsession with thai and spicy food after my trip to southeast asia:)

These pre-cooked birds sometimes get a bad rap as the David Hasselhoffs of the prepared foods aisle — frighteningly bronzed, wrinkly, and way past their prime — but, if you pick up a good one, they're downright delicious.

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The earth as we know it, Arnett says, could not survive without beetles, which serve as food for fish, birds and other wildlife.

It is important to remember that if you start putting food out, you need to commit to it as birds start to become reliant on where their food source is.

Birds can starve to death after three days if a frost or snow continues and many rely on bird feeders as their only source of food.

In an interview, she said that she chewed up his food for him and spit it into his mouth, a method that's referred to as pre-mastication and is common among both birds and humans in ancient cultures.

We'll also enjoy the return of the birds to our fields, forests and wetlands as they hunt for food, sing songs, and build nests.

We saw images of a homeless Big Bird with a cardboard «will work for food» sign — serious fun as part of the electoral season.

Birds are kept in cramped and overcrowded conditions, in which they are unable to perform natural behaviours such as scratching and dust - bathing; they are frequently «debeaked» in order to prevent fighting and self - harm; they are denied darkness and food in order to encourage constant egg - laying; and conditions in sheds can be unhygienic, with hens living amongst dead birds and faBirds are kept in cramped and overcrowded conditions, in which they are unable to perform natural behaviours such as scratching and dust - bathing; they are frequently «debeaked» in order to prevent fighting and self - harm; they are denied darkness and food in order to encourage constant egg - laying; and conditions in sheds can be unhygienic, with hens living amongst dead birds and fabirds and faeces.

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has supervised the killing of over 40000 birds as part of measures to contain...

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) has supervised the killing of over 40000 birds as part of measures to contain the spread of the Avian Influenza (Bird Flu).

«The bird food that the blackcaps rely upon in Britain is powdered, so there is no longer selection for the broad beaks that allow the bird to eat large fruits such as olives on the Iberian Peninsula,» says Schaefer.

He said bees are beneficial because they pollinate flowers, citrus crops and vegetables, and they serve as food sources for other insects, birds and fish.

Mesopelagic fish serve as a food source for a large variety of marine animals, including tuna, swordfish, dolphins, seals and sea birds.

«Not only are these insects vital as pollinators of crops and wild plants, but they also provide food for many birds and mammals,» said joint lead researcher Dr Ros Shaw, also of the University of Exeter.

Citizen scientists will be enlisted to collect data on birds and aquatic insects for Jackson's project, which seeks to quantify how contaminants such as mercury move through the food chain: from aquatic insects to the riparian birds that feed upon them.

The birds depend on the protein rich crane flies as food for chicks, but scientists have discovered that summer droughts, which are predicted to increase, will cause significant declines in crane flies and subsequently the bird species that depend on them.

Much as migrating birds or spawning insects rely on the timing of spring so that there is enough available food when they arrive in a given region, so, too, the salmon rely on the timing of phytoplankton blooms, followed by the zooplankton bloom that then feeds baby salmon.

The prairies of the Upper Missouri River Basin are home to iconic species such as the prairie dog and provide critical habitat for many grassland birds, but they are losing ground to food production and, increasingly, to bioenergy crops.

«The cicadas are probably affecting the bird populations in some way — after all, many bird populations use the cicadas as food during emergence years — but I do not think that the patterns in this study prove that the cicadas are inducing delayed bird - population changes that occur 13 or 17 years after emergence,» Marshall concludes.

When it comes to animals, the problem is compounded for two main reasons: First, it is very difficult to design and administer tests that pick up on overall smarts instead of specific skills, such as the keen memories of food - hoarding birds or the fine motor skills of chimpanzees that make tools for finding insects in trees.

«Ironically, as people seek to take control over the way their food is grown, most ordinances fail to ensure basic health and welfare for birds and humans,» said Catherine Brinkley, assistant professor of community and regional development, in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

When you see these birds, you assume they'd be as common as crows, or the grackles here in central Texas, because they seem so adaptable, especially to different kinds of food, and interested in novel objects and trying to figure out how they can make use of them.

«By grouping waterbirds, such as plant - eating birds and fish - eating birds, we showed that the degradation affected a wide range of different plants and animals in the wetlands; declines in these waterbirds means their food levels are also falling,» says Professor Kingsford, who is Director of the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science.

But when researchers injected Anas platyrhynchos ducklings at 4, 9, or 14 weeks old with red blood cells from sheep to simulate a parasitic infection, the birds — as adults — explored new items in their environment and approached small orange toys, a color they typically avoid because they seem to associate it with toxic food.

A large number of chemicals that dissolve relatively easily in water do not break down as readily in air, building up «specifically in nonaquatic food webs: mammals, birds, human beings,» explains Frank Gobas, an environmental toxicologist at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, who led the research.

Previous research has shown that the food consumed by a bird, as well as its general well - being, can influence the colour of its feathers.

Crows appeared to use magpies as Cheetos scouts, waiting for the smaller birds to explore the food, then landing and shooing the magpies off their prize.

Most scientists thought that a bird's preference for a certain number of companions had to be determined at least in part by life experience or by ecological conditions such as food abundance or the threat of predators.

• Extra: In this activity you looked at the general lifestyle of birds, but there are many aspects that go into birds» lifestyles, such as where they nest, where they roost and how they get food.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), game meats are defined as exotic meats, animals and birds, which are not in the Meat and Poultry Act.

[Since some]... are protected by a disagreeable taste or odour, it would be a positive advantage to them never to be mistaken for any of the palatable caterpillars... Any gaudy & conspicuous colour therefore, that would plainly distinguish them from the brown & green eatable caterpillars, would enable birds to recognise them easily as a kind not fit for food, & thus they would escape seizure which is as bad as being eaten.

Chemicals in the sediment can cause reproductive problems in mammals, birds and aquatic life, and they become increasingly concentrated as they move through the food chains of ecosystems.

Animals such as white - tailed deer, the Florida panther and migratory birds that depend on native vegetation, such as mangrove, for food and shelter are deprived of that habitat.

As cities are vastly different to natural habitats, and contain many new types of food, boldness is likely to be a very useful trait for urban birds to have.

The DNA sequences of insects and seeds — and for large predatory birds, prey such as small mammals or lizards — reveal the food that attracts the birds to the airport in the first place.

Boyd says that once prey become too scarce, hunting probably becomes inefficient and the birds lack enough food to successfully raise as many young.

«So far, conservationists have focussed on providing enough food for animals such as birds and bees, such as the important bee - friendly flowers in gardens,» Dr Higginson said.

But Komdeur found that this space was in low - quality areas — defined as having a meagre supply of insects, the birds» principal food.

Just as right - handedness indicates left - brain dominance in most humans, brain laterality was determined in birds by observing which eye each bird used to fixate on a piece of food and which foot grabbed it.