Sentences with phrase «as young birds»

Smaller birds only need to have their wings clipped as young birds.

While the species - specific song must be learned as a young bird, most calls are, as in the case of all other birds, innate.

As a young bird, we worry about infectious diseases (such as Psittacine Beak and Feather Disease (Circovirus), Polyomavirus, etc. or genetic / congenital problems (problems that occur prior to the time the chick is hatched).

Pepper, an Acorn Woodpecker arrived as a young bird to the Project Wildlife Triage Center in 2008.

Not exact matches

If Senator Bird was pressed on his early involvement with KKK leaders, why is Romney not pressed on his ongoing dedication to extreme racists like Brigham Young, who he accepts as a true prophet of God?

In addition, fantastic new specimens of birds have been found in Spain and China, which are some 30 or 40 million years younger than Archaeopteryx, and they are more bird - like, exactly as an evolutionist predicts.

Young Americans, in their wholesale rejection of traditional values, dismissed pro sports as a metaphor for aggression (and as a tool with which the military - industrial complex could whip up a blind frenzy of patriotism), but they still had Reggie, who wore an Afro and flipped his owner, Charley Finley, the bird as he crossed the plate.

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

The bird identification marathon attracts participants of all ages and abilities, including families and young people, as well as longtime veterans of the competition and others for whom birding is a serious avocation.

This newfound noise from young Amphion floridensis may startle birds or other would - be predators not expecting something as generally quiet as most caterpillars to erupt in sound.

But in species where males have a greater role in rearing young than females — such as seahorses and certain frogs and birds — it's the females that are more likely to compete violently with each other.

As a young girl she loved birds, dance, and clothes.

Researchers bought the specimen from a dealer and are determining whether the bird is 160 million years old, as claimed — or if it is actually 35 million years younger.

Hamlyn describes its Young Ornithological Guides as a totally new concept in bird books aimed at 8 to 14 - year - olds.

As for how dinosaurs cared for their young, paleontologists have looked to the closest living relatives of dinosaurs — alligators and birds — for possible models.

«We refer to these as «suites of genes,» and one of these suites of genes is highly correlated to learning in young birds.»

Contrary to the prevailing belief that young albatrosses remain at sea until they're ready to breed, VanderWerf and Young found that 2 % of birds first returned to the colony as one - year - olds, 7 % as two - year - olds, and 17 % as three - year - young albatrosses remain at sea until they're ready to breed, VanderWerf and Young found that 2 % of birds first returned to the colony as one - year - olds, 7 % as two - year - olds, and 17 % as three - year - Young found that 2 % of birds first returned to the colony as one - year - olds, 7 % as two - year - olds, and 17 % as three - year - olds.

The ancestors of all modern birds, from the hummingbird to the majestic bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, seen here as a young adult), lived on a supercontinent in the Southern Hemisphere about 95 million years ago, a new study suggests.

Nestlings farthest away experienced stunted growth as well (predators are more common at quieter sites, and heightened vigilance might reduce the birds» ability to feed their young).

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

These two guards of the Swiss National Parks Service are carrying young bearded vultures that they later released as part of a programme to reintroduce the birds to the Alps.

As a young man, I used to go to our public library to look at and wonder about this wild pigeon that is no longer here... I would love nothing more than to be a part of the propagation and training of these new birds.»

The story misses this important development, that long before finding the first feathered dinosaur in the mid 1990s, the vast majority of paleontologists and an increasing number of young ornithologists realized and had accepted the mountain of osteological evidence, which Ostrom had pioneered, that frames birds as dinosaur descendants.

In both externally fertilizing species such as salmon and internally fertilizing animals such as birds, males with the fastest sperm sire the most young.

Of note, the singing - to - FoxP2 correlation observed here in hearing juveniles was previously observed as a trend in adults for both mRNA [21] and protein [22], but has now emerged as a significant relationship in younger birds.

Pheasant is delicious roasted, so long as the game bird is very young.

Following a young woman as she awkwardly makes her way through her senior year of high school, Lady Bird explores popularity, family issues, jealousy, and numerous other issues that teenagers face on a daily basis, so if you go into this film having already experienced those years of your life, I guarantee there will be a section of this movie that you can relate to.

Lady Bird is every bit a charming coming of age film, with Saoirse Ronan as a young woman finding her own unique ways of dealing with issues every teenager encounters.

Bird effortlessly moves between riotous comedy (such as young Hogarth's efforts to hide his enormous new robot friend from his mother), high - spun action and poignant moments of fear and friendship.

A nominee for Lady Bird, Saoirse Ronan told ET that «it's been incredible as a young person... to really feel a part of a community of women.»

Saoirse Ronan, Golden Globe nominees for her work in Lady Bird, told ET that «it's been incredible as a young person... to really feel a part of a community of women.»

Other powerful performances by women that should not be forgotten during nominations are Annette Bening's dead - on turn as Gloria Grahame in «Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool,» Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf in «Lady Bird»; Margot Robbie and Allison Janney in «I, Tonya,» the young new - to - acting Brooklynn Prince in «The Florida Project,» and Carey Mulligan and Mary J Blige in «Mudbound.»

Young viewers may be distressed as well by Theodore's fear of large birds and his worry over the state of the siblings» relationship.

As part of promoting the addition of «Lady Bird,» Amazon conducted a survey of Prime members about coming - of - age movies they would recommended to younger people.

Answering our call was Annette Bening, who plays former Hollywood leading lady Gloria Grahame romantically linked to a much younger man in her final years in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»; Jessica Chastain, who plays real - life poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom targeted by the FBI in «Molly's Game»; Diane Kruger, who won the Cannes film festival's top acting prize for her portrayal of a woman whose husband and child have been killed by terrorists in «In the Fade»; Margot Robbie, who stars as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the quirky «I, Tonya»; Saoirse Ronan, as a Sacramento teen looking for her place in the world in «Lady Bird»; and Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's 1950s Coney Island drama «Wonder Wheel.»

Twenty - year - old Kathryn Newton, who played Reese Witherspoon's similarly rebellious daughter in HBO mega-hit Big Little Lies and who is slated to star as youngest sister Amy in BBC One and Masterpiece's forthcoming Little Women adaptation, was elated when she snagged a small role as a lovable high - school nerd in Lady Bird.

Speaking about role as a high school student in «Lady Bird,» Ronan said, «Young kids need to know from all of us that it's all right to not feel really confident all the time.

In «The Royal Tenenbaums,» young Margot Tenenbaum stages a play where the young actors are dressed as animals, and in «Moonrise Kingdom» Suzy is in a play where the young actors are dressed as birds.

Ballots don't come with lists of eligible choices so it's up to each member to think up a list and since the category is «under 21» it takes a bit of research for the teen / young adult performances; as is Hollywood tradition almost everyone playing high schoolers in Lady Bird or Spider - Man Homecoming are in their early - to - mid 20s.

Lombard and Young are outstanding as the married Smiths, and while lacking many of his trademark trick shots and camera angles, Hitchcock (Rear Window, The Birds) wisely takes a backseat to the witty script and amiable characters.

Ten years after moving from Israel to the United States and starting her career with modeling work and acting classes, her latest role as Jenna in Greta Gerwig's celebrated new film Lady Bird has put her on the map, and, with a number of upcoming movies, the young actress is one to watch.

As the story follows Lady Bird through her last year of high school, Ronan and Gerwig capture the typical phases of a young woman's life with an ease that feels casual yet is built on a thousand brilliantly - observed choices.

As its release has gone wide, «Lady Bird» found its grateful audience, and it isn't men or even young women who might identify with Saoirse Ronan's teen central character.

But newcomer Sasha Lane is vibrant as a free - spirited young woman in «American Honey»; and Ruth Negga is heartbreaking as a woman in an interracial marriage in the South in the 1960s in Jeff Nichols ««Loving»; and Isabelle Huppert won raves for a fierce performance as an assault victim in Paul Verhoeven «s «Elle»; and Kristen Stewart survived the boo - birds who initially mocked Olivier Assayas ««Personal Shopper» to win praise.

Shailene Woodley's due to follow - up her Sundance 2013 entry with Gregg Araki's new feature, «White Bird in a Blizzard,» in which she leads as Kat Connors, a young woman who's rattled when her mother suddenly disappears.

Social dramas or «message films» expressed powerful lessons, such as the harsh conditions of Southern prison systems in Hell's Highway (1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (1939).

Chalamet, who you've also seen in other 2017 films like Hostiles and Lady Bird, delivers a beautiful performance as a young man attempting to make sense of his feelings while Armie Hammer shows new depth as the charismatic but vulnerable Oliver.

Some of the specters may be frightening to young audiences — one appears as a large dragon - type bird that can fly, another is a human that spews ectoplasm (a slimly substance), while others are more cartoon - like.

A major bone of contention finds Lady Bird and her mom arguing about the young woman's desire to go to a college in New York as she is sick of living in the suburbs and especially hard on their location on the other side of the tracks in Sacramento.

At one point the dad even rigs up digital cameras in all the rooms in their suburban home to see what is behind strange phenomena such as flocks of birds smashing into the house, mysterious marks appearing on their youngest kid's body, and so forth.