Sentences with phrase «at bird calls»

«We thought birds would be good at bird calls and humans would be good at speech.

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Turkey, at one point in history called el ave de los ricos (the bird of the rich), is now consumed worldwide as a part of many different festive feasts from Thanksgiving to Easter.

We're here at the 1,000 foot - long garden at Monticello, where tradition is being preserved by continuing to grow Thomas Jefferson's favorite plant varieties, including cayennes and chilipiquins, which Jefferson called «Texas bird peppers.»

The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center has developed standards that are targeted specifically at shade management and preserving biodiversity; their certification is called «Bird - Friendly» (this is a trademarked term and should always carry the Smithsonian seal).

It's part of a larger pattern of mismanaging player - assets so conspicuously that you're forced to offload them for less than market value — at the end of the day, a professional team is a group of assets, and a huge part of managing a team is doing what you can to increase the market valuation of those assets — and that's where I call this «vendetta» and not «style,» because even a disciplinarian could offer little carrots like, y ’ know, an absolutely deserved All - Star nod (at ZERO cost to himself or the club) but instead chose to publicly flip his most gifted player the bird.

With McIlroy struggling all day (CBS» Dottie Pepper called his play «flat») and Reed hanging on to the lead by a whisker, Spieth went out with two straight birdies to start, added a third on the fifth hole, and made the turn at 3 - under 33 after two more consecutive birds.

Plus, as may happen with other sound machines or apps on your phone, you won't be driven to the brink of insanity by the Dohm, by waiting for the loop to «click over» into the next cycle, or by waiting for that sixth whale tone or bird call, or be totally creeped out at 2 a.m. by the sound of a beating heart (oh yes, that's a sound machine option, too).

A photography exhibit at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum called «Broken Journey» showcases some of the exotic and beautiful birds killed here.

Go on hike with a naturalist, enjoy breakfast at Bliss Dairy, learn to build a birdhouse, and find out how you can help protect the birds that call Massachusetts home.

But for a senior mandarin to call in the police over a leak more associated The birds have flown Members of Parliament need to be protected from the executive with party point - scoring than national security, and then for the misuse of authority to be compounded by the Government, police, Speaker and Serjeant at Arms raises real and important concerns.

Gone were the 44 field offices across the state where Obama organizers had worked during the campaign; now Bird spent his visit searching for power outlets in Wisconsin coffee shops and conducting conference calls at sidewalk cafes.

«It's amazing when you look at a bird's ankle,» Rothschild calls out while wiggling the frail joint of a flycatcher he's found in a specimen drawer.

Having previously found that molecules called cryptochromes embedded in birds» retinas both respond to light and detect magnetic fields, scientists at the University of Oldenburg in Germany recently showed that avian brains incorporate clever mechanisms for processing the geomagnetic information.

To further test the theory, Christopher Bird, a zoologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and his colleague Nathan Emery of Queen Mary, University of London, «quizzed» rooks on a basic concept of physics they call «support.»

Meanwhile, Floyd Reed, a biologist at the University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, has been working on a different kind of drive system called underdominance to prevent the Culex mosquitoes introduced to Hawaii from spreading avian malaria to endangered birds, including the Hawaiian honeycreeper.

Ecologist Patricia Adair Gowaty at the University of Georgia predicts the paper will become an «instant classic,» calling it «the first time that [changes in sex ratio in birds] have been shown so convincingly.»

I saw a little bird called a bar - winged cinclodes, which you can also see at the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego, thousands of miles away.

We were at a place called the lower lobe and we were listening to birds and just there was this moment and oh my god, there was this huge snapping turtle.

However, according to new results presented at the International Symposium on Acoustic Communication by Animals, the caterpillars have learned to mimic birds» distress calls by forcing air through holes in their bodies with an accordionlike contraction, The Scientist reports.

We are using a different kind of deterrent — trying to stop birds from hearing one another by playing a noise that is at the same pitch as the alarm calls or predator noises they are listening out for,» said Professor Swaddle, who is also Professor of Biology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in the US.

«This shows that the biggest dinosaur Argentinosaurus, at 90 tonnes, was 6 million times the weight of the smallest Mesozoic dinosaur, a sparrow - sized bird called Qiliania, weighing 15 grams.

Birds» and bats» wings could be called exaptations of arms; however, the structural changes that followed can not be called adaptations because «you are talking about a historical incident; it's not something you can test,» said Mark Norell, a vertebrate paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, who studied with Vrba.

Matthew Dunbabin and his collaborator Ashley Tews at the CSIRO Autonomous Systems Laboratory in Brisbane, Australia, are teaching a four - wheeled robot to move only when intermittent sounds — like bird or frog calls — will mask its movements.

Of the four ingredients that dominated the human odors, the team found one, called nonanal, that for unknown reasons was also present at high levels in the bird samples.

There's something like 80 million people in the U.S. according the recent surveys that are interested in birds in one way or another, you know, feed birds or watch birds, take their kids to a wildlife refuge and yet we keep hearing about more and more reports of declines in birds, you know, doubling of the extinction rates in birds globally in the last 50 years and right now we are on the verge of what I call the third renaissance of bird conservation, first being the Audubon movement at the turn of the century, the second being the Rachel Carson movement of the»60s and third we are on the verge of it right now.

Previously, Dr. Smeyne and his collaborator Dr. Stacey Schultz - Cherry in the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, showed that a deadly H5N1 strain of influenza (so - called Bird Flu) that has a high mortality rate (60 percent of those infected died from the disease) was able to infect nerve cells, travel to the brain, and cause inflammation that, the researchers showed, would later result in Parkinson's - like symptoms in mice.

Oppel and his colleagues set up sound recorders on a remote island in the North Atlantic for two years to «count» the number of nesting birds by recording their calls at night.

At all sites, on average, urban birds sang and called at higher frequencies than their country cousins, with city hipster birds singing 195 hertz higher and calling 90 hertz higheAt all sites, on average, urban birds sang and called at higher frequencies than their country cousins, with city hipster birds singing 195 hertz higher and calling 90 hertz higheat higher frequencies than their country cousins, with city hipster birds singing 195 hertz higher and calling 90 hertz higher.

When Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki at Uppsala University in Sweden and his colleagues studied three S. opolensis braincases, they found that two bony projections near the back, called paroccipital processes, were orientated in the same way as in birds (Historical Biology, doi.org/cjt4).

«On hearing the calls, many birds started to spontaneously play with non-playing birds, or with an object close by, or by performing aerial acrobatics,» says Raoul Schwing at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria.

Innovative research looking at the timing and sequence of bird calls could provide new insight into the social interaction that goes on between birds.

Concerns over so - called «gain - of - function» (GOF) studies that make pathogens more potent or likely to spread in people erupted in 2011, when Kawaoka's team and Ron Fouchier's lab at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, announced that they had modified the H5N1 bird flu virus to enable it to spread between ferrets.

And this past February Italian researchers reported that they had found evidence that 44,000 years ago Neandertals were harvesting wing feathers from a variety of birds at a site called Fumane Cave for decorative purposes.

This type of information is called spatio - temporal data, where spatio refers to the space or location of the bird and the temporal information is the time (month, day, hour) that the bird was determined to be at that specific location.

The young bird was discovered to be a member of the major group of birds called enantiornithes, which is a group of ancient, toothed birds that went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period.

The birds, called northern fulmars, feed exclusively at sea.

At 2 p.m. Call it a hip late lunch or a typical early bird dinner that I like to enjoy.

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Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.

The positives: prestige films from Fox Searchlight's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to The Shape of Water, NEON / 30West's I, Tonya, A24's The Disaster Artist, Lady Bird and The Florida Project, Sony Pictures Classics» Call Me By Your Name and others have been performing strongly at the box office.

In the post-Moonlight age (and with nominations this year for gay - themed films such as Call Me By Your Name, or those with mild gay content like Lady Bird), we thought it might be time to look back at 10 LGBTQ movies that despite deserving some Academy Awards love got no Oscar nomination (including one — believe it or not — from 2017!).

All the Money in the World Battle of the Sexes Beatriz at Dinner Blade Runner 2049 Call Me By Your Name Catch Every Wave Detroit The Florida Project A Ghost Story Hostiles Jane Lady Bird Molly's Game The Post Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Ronan plays Christine McPherson, a senior at a Catholic high school in Sacramento, California, in 2002 who longs to go to college in New York and makes her friends and family call her Lady Bird.

Unbroken «s most hard - to - watch, brutal scenes see WWII U.S. Airforce bombadier Louis Zamperini (played by a commanding Jack O'Connell) getting thrashed and beaten to oblivion at the hands of a sadistic Japanese prison sergeant called «The Bird» (Japanese singer Miyavi).

I think these movies are still in pretty good standing for a nod, at least right now: Lady Bird Call Me By Your Name Get Out

The splashiest films at T.I.F.F. largely came from directors with minimal Oscar race experience, among them Call Me by Your Name's Luca Guadagnino, The Florida Project's Sean Baker, The Shape of Water's Guillermo del Toro (a previous nominee for his Pan's Labyrinth screenplay), and most thrillingly, two young actors - turned - directors: Lady Bird's Greta Gerwig, and The Disaster Artist's James Franco (a best - actor nominee for 127 Hours).

The 21 - year - old breakout star of three upcoming movies with Oscar buzz («Call Me by Your Name,» «Lady Bird» and «Hostiles») grew up in Hell's Kitchen, graduated from LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, studied at both Columbia and NYU and now resides in the East Village.

Brave souls who, while being marched on by gun - wielding Capitol troopers, scatter at the revolutionary mockingjay bird call; the sombrely singing lines of men and women who burst dams in District Five.

Lois Smith, who plays the mother superior at Lady Bird's school, concurred, calling Gerwig «absolutely a natural.»

Besides «Marshall» director Hudlin, stars Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown and producer Paula Wagner, high - profile guests expected at various screenings and events during the festival include Patrick Stewart (subject of an Oct. 25 career retrospective tribute and a conversation with yours truly); Vanessa Redgrave (Oct. 16, presenting her documentary «Sea Sorrow» and represented elsewhere in the festival by a revival screening of «Blow - Up»); Alfre Woodard (subject of an Oct. 21 career retrospective tribute); Michael Shannon (Chicago's own, as the locals like to call him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown&raqucall him, representing «The Shape of Water» on Oct. 26); Tracy Letts (Chicago's own, as the locals also like to call him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown&raqucall him, participating Oct. 18 on behalf of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed directorial debut «Lady Bird»); Michael Stuhlbarg (arriving Oct. 25; he gives a beautiful supporting turn in the coming - of - age drama «Call Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown&raquCall Me by Your Name»); Jon Lovitz (part of the Chicago - sprung comedy «Chasing the Blues,» appearing Oct. 14); and, in an Oct. 23 addition announced after the program went to press, Bill Pullman (getting good notices for the western «The Ballad of Lefty Brown»).