Sentences with phrase «beak at»

Do not attempt to trim your bird's beak at home.

So even though the stick does not look like a beak — maybe not even to the chick — this strange object is more effective than a real beak at activating the bird's beak - detection system.

The jays clearly need to resign Zaun so that he can beak at him from the dugout about lack of hustle.

Not exact matches

Characterized by sharp beaks and flamboyant horns and frills, these herbivores almost all lived in what is now Western North America right at the end of the Cretaceous period, 100 to 66 million years ago.

It felt a little awkward at first, but as I moved my fingers across those painful words, folding them into one anther to make wings, then a neck, then a crooked little beak, healing tears fell, and I let my fingers pray.

lol) at one point it existed as a pig snout and a chicken beak (at east the Dog portion).

Stocking densities would be set at 750 birds per hectare and beak trimming banned.

22 First by a Beak As if to prove once and for all that betting is for the birds, a pigeon wins at New Orleans» Fair Grounds

Every light on this side of the town Suddenly it all went down Now we'll all be brothers of the fossil fire of the sun Now we will all be sisters of the fossil blood of the moon Someone must have set «em up Now they'll be working in the cold grey rock Now they'll be working in the hot mill steam... Now they'll be working in the concrete In the sirens and the silences now All the great set up hearts All at once start to beat After tonight if you don't want this to be A secret out of the past I will resurrect it, I'll have a good go at it I'll streak his blood across my beak and dust my feathers with his ash I can feel his ghost breathing down my back I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever I will try and know whatever I try I will be gone but not forever Real truth about it is No one gets it right Real truth about it is We're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I've been trying to cross The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off It's got the maps or if it's lost We will try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever Come on let's try and know whatever we try We will be gone but not forever

All winter long he was a docile pet, letting me stroke him and coo to him while I held the water bowl beneath his curved beak and marveled at his loud gurgling digestive system.

I've got a very busy week this week, my new Family Tours start again, I'm off to watch the Liverpool Ladies FC at home against Durham Women FC on Saturday then back to Anfield on Monday for the first home game of the Barclays Premier Legaue Season — And all of this is why I always have a smile on my beak!

Once the paint had dried, I taped two handprints to the plate as wings, drew on feet and a beak (or you could use card cut to shape), stuck on googly eyes, and added a few feathers at the top of the head.

Look at bird beaks and then use tools to try to eat like a bird.

When I saw the images of the birds holding the cookies it made me think of clothespin beaks so I tried my hand at a printable to do along with the book!

«We have introduced tough laws including increasing the minimum age at which someone can be sold a knife from 16 to 18 and penalties for shopkeepers who do beak the law.

Now he and Matthew Symonds, at the University of Melbourne, Australia, have compared beak length in 214 bird species with the annual minimum temperature of their native habitats.

Premaxillae are the small bones at the tip of the upper jaw of most animals, but are enlarged and fused to form the beak of birds.

Interestingly, only beaked whales appear to be affected and only in a few locations — which offers hope of solving that problem at least.

The scientists heated chicken embryos to 40 ° to 41 ° Celsius for an hour and compared them with embryos incubated at a standard laboratory temperature of 37 ° C. Those chicks exposed to a high «fever» developed craniofacial defects, such as a shorter upper beak, and cardiovascular defects.

Andrew Gallup at Binghamton University in New York watched 21 budgies over 15 days and counted their yawns — a wide open beak and slightly closed eyes, followed by a brief stretch of the neck.

«He loved a good neck scratch and he'd pull at your finger with his beak if you stopped.»

The empty - beaked bird would quickly start preening its mate, but the mate would be slow to preen back, or might not preen at all.

Back then just two percent of calves every year had to suffer at the beaks of the gulls, along with some of their mothers.

They dig away at the tree's innards and fling the detritus onto the sidewalk below with their little yellow beaks.

Sonic hedgehog could potentially enhance the function of touch and smell sensors in the kiwis» long beaks, at the expense of visual function.

A chick will peck equally fervently at a disembodied beak; no gull need be attached to it.

Large - beak varieties of the gene were at a strong disadvantage during the drought, the researchers found.

Working with DNA samples collected by the Grants, researchers at Uppsala identified the gene that influences beak shape by comparing the genomes of 120 birds, all members of the 15 species known as «Darwin's finches.»

When a rooster's beak is fully open, as it is when crowing, a quarter of the ear canal completely closes and soft tissue covers 50 % of the eardrum, the team reports in a paper in press at Zoology.

That has made me a human being very different from my friends amongst the Kwagiulth, who believed that those same forests were the abode of the crooked beak of heaven and the cannibal spirits that dwell at the north end of the world.

The team also observed pairs of octopuses feeding in the unique beak - to - beak position, allowing both male and female to share a meal, and even share the same den for days at a time.

And their chicks hatch with these very sharp hooks at the tips of their beak, which they use to stab the host young to death as soon as they hatch.»

Eating with Tension The long, thin beaks of shorebirds called phalaropes are no good at sucking up water and any tasty crustaceans within.

Depending on whether you choose carnivory or herbivory at the start of the game, your cell comes equipped with either a parrotlike beak or filter - feeding fronds.

The director of the National Museums of Ceylon, P. E. P. Deraniyagala, decided that it was different from the other Mesoplodon species known at that time, and assigned it the name hotaula, meaning «pointed beak» in the local Sinhala language.

A cell in the eye may be worth two in the beak, at least when it comes to a migratory bird's magnetic compass.

Overall, the saga of M. hotaula shows «that there are probably even more species of beaked whales that we don't know about,» says Phil Clapham, a marine mammalogist at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle, Washington.

The researchers have already started to follow up the study by looking at DNA samples from great tit populations across Europe and their initial evidence suggests that the longer beak genetic variants are specific to the UK.

What the beaked whales were doing at the time appeared to be a key factor affecting their reactions.

Researchers at Oxford University have been studying the Wytham Woods great tit population in Oxfordshire for 70 years and so the team had access to a wealth of historical data which clearly showed that the British great tits» beaks were getting longer over time.

Glenn Tattersall, an evolutionary physiologist at Brock University in Canada, wanted to find out just how much of a cooling effect the toucan's giant beak provided.

The beaked whales in the study made their deep dives about seven times a day, foraging for squid and fish; they spent more time at the surface at night.

In other studies, bird beaks have been shown to be sensitive to the environment and capable of rapid change, says coauthor Mirte Bosse, an ecologist at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.

Genetic differences between the two populations suggested that natural selection, the process that drives evolution, appeared to be at work especially in DNA regions associated with the shape and structure of the birds» beaks.

Alex Thiery, a PhD student at the University of Sheffield who contributed to the study said: «We are interested in the developmental origin of the pufferfish beak as it presents a special opportunity to understand how evolutionary novelty can arise in vertebrates more generally.

Based on capture depths of a few specimens, as well as beaks found in sperm whale stomachs, the adult squid ranges at least to a depth of 2200 m, while juveniles can go as deep as 1000 m.

«What it is that gives birds with longer beaks an advantage at the feeder sites?»

In 2000, McGowan read a paper by Gavin Hunt, a senior research fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, on tool use by these crows and he had an insight into the New Caledonian crow's unusual beak.

Beaked whales are among the most elusive of cetaceans, rarely spotted at the surface.

«It is very striking that when we compare the size and shape of the Big Bird beaks with the beak morphologies of the other three species inhabiting Daphne Major, the Big Birds occupy their own niche in the beak morphology space,» said Sangeet Lamichhaney, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the first author on the study.