Sentences with phrase «birds egg nest»

Not exact matches

The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the eggs it uses each year will not come from hens crammed into battery cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.

We watched the mother bird build the nest, then looked in after she laid the eggs.

In the end, she made the best of a bad situation by leaving her eggs in the nests of nearby birds of another species.

Luckily for her, those birds she selected were not very bright and the new eggs were not recognized as being of foreign origin.

Did you know sir that turkeys are less respectable they are very well known to invade the nest of quails, grousse and other bird groups and eating their young and or eggs.

Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.

Whisk eggs and all other ingredients and pour into the bird nest wells.

The leading international food and beverage company has committed that more than one million of the eggs it uses each year will not come from hens crammed into battery cages, which provide each bird less space than a single sheet of paper on which to spend her entire life.

To use the Australian Certified Organic Bud logo, egg farmers can't stock more than 1500 birds per hectare if set stocking or up to 2500 birds per hectare for layers on pasture rotations.

To use the Australian Certified Organic Bud logo, egg farmers can't stock more than 1500 birds per hectare if they are set stocking or up to 2500 birds per hectare for layers on pasture rotations.

They looked like little birds» nests where one of the eggs had broken.

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The European Cuckoo, for example, lays her eggs in another bird's nest.

Place your painted eggs into the paper bird nest.

So, we created this beginning sounds Easter eggs game to merge the plastic eggs I had on hand, my son's love of birds and nests, and a literacy skill he is ready to practice.

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especially perhaps the 2nd line... and the line «Before we all go under»... Rows of houses, all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out This machine will, will not communicate These thoughts and the strain I am under Be a world child, form a circle Before we all go under And fade out again and fade out again Cracked eggs, dead birds Scream as they fight for life I can feel death, can see its beady eyes All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out again Immerse your soul in love IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE

The researchers compared egg shape with lots of data about each bird species, but found no correlation with clutch size, environmental factors or nest characteristics.

Why is a symmetrical egg advantageous for birds that don't have demands for high - intensity flight?

Now, animal behaviorists have shown that domestication was a two - for - one deal: Not only did the birds become fearless, they also got bigger and produced more and larger eggs.

«In areas where these guys are present and abundant, it would be a smart move, especially among ground - nesting birds, not to place eggs there,» he says.

These birds are considered brood parasites because they lay eggs into the nests of other birds and throw out the host's eggs to ensure there is no competition for food from the adoptive parents.

This allowed the scientists to accurately compare both the adult birds, and their eggs, to their chosen backgrounds, as well as monitor which nests had been found by predators such as banded mongooses, birds, and vervet monkeys — and even in one case hungry children.

Specifically, some previous research has shown that wading bird nesting colonies could provide substantial food for alligators in the form of dropped chicks, which are chicks ejected from the nest when a bird lays more eggs than they can raise.

Carson reported that birds ingesting DDT tended to lay thin - shelled eggs which would in turn break prematurely in the nest, resulting in marked population declines.

Like cuckoos, African indigobirds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.

Birds that eventually rejected parasite eggs still laid an average - sized clutch of their own — even though the alien eggs remained at the top of the nest for several critical days before being buried.

And this year, according to Perry Plumart of the National Audubon Society, which has been lobbying states and the federal government to protect the crabs for several years, many migrating birds did not leave at their normal body weight — suggesting that fewer eggs were available.

These two patterns — termed by the authors «pigment as parasol» and the «dark car effect» — combined with a knowledge of the nesting behavior and habitats of birds, can lead to predictions as to why the eggs of some birds vary across species from blue to white.

Ravens, carrion birds often popularly depicted as omens of death or misfortune, will be killed by baiting them with poisoned chicken eggs, shooting them and destroying a number of their eggs and nests, Idaho wildlife managers said.

Female cowbirds were better off laying their eggs in forest nests: Cowbirds that laid eggs in fields averaged only five fledglings, she estimated, whereas those that laid eggs in forest birds» nests ended up with 12.7 fledglings.

The brown - headed cowbird is a so - called brood parasite that lays its eggs in other birds» nests, thereby letting other species do all the heavy lifting of chick rearing.

Without natural predators, the rat population has swollen to many million, eating their way through tens of millions of ground - nesting birds» eggs and chicks in the process.

Though the exact function of TSHR is unknown, it may be linked to the domestic chicken's ability to lay eggs year - round — a trait that Red Junglefowl and other wild birds don't have.

In her landmark book, she documented a litany of evils observed after DDT and other organochlorine insecticides were sprayed on landscapes, rivers, and lawns: dead birds and paralyzed birds, pigeons dropping from the sky, bird nests without eggs and eggs that did not hatch, dead fish and fish swimming in circles, cancers in humans, and a buildup of DDT in the fat of animals and people.

In Mongolia, on the other hand, a theropod has been found sitting on its eggs much like a bird brooding on its nest.

Some birds do not seem to discern even obvious differences, while some that do are physically unable to eject the strange eggs.

To do this he filled experimental wicker nests with Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) eggs and placed them in forest locations ranging from the midcanopy to the understory, to reflect native birds» nesting habits.

The bald eagle was nearly extinct in the continental U.S. by the late 20th century, but the population has since stabilized, primarily due to habitat protection and a ban on DDT, an insecticide that weakened the birds» eggs so much that the eagles could not produce viable offspring.

Many birds have reason to worry that the eggs in their nest might not be their own: birds often deposit eggs into other nests and it is not easy for parents to tell their eggs from others.

Building a nest, laying and incubating eggs and taking care of a hungry brood are very demanding on birds» energy budgets, so it is obviously in their interests to ensure that the young they are caring for are their own.

The birds removed foreign eggs from the nest in about a third of cases in the first experiment, although the remainder accepted and continued to incubate parasitic eggs.

Citizen Scientists are needed to promote Loon - friendly lakes, build floating Loon nesting platforms, collect Loon eggs and carcasses and identify threats to these birds.

Several approaches may be needed, such as introducing fly - parasitizing wasps, removing chicks from nests for hand - rearing, raising sterile male flies to mate with females so they can't lay eggs in finch nests, and using insecticides, including placing pesticide - treated cotton balls where birds can collect them to self - fumigate their nests.

Dr Deeming added: «From a biological perspective, it is self - evident that different egg shapes by birds, both past and present, might be associated with different nesting behaviours or incubation methods.

The only one a real bird couldn't easily generate: an egg shaped like a hot air balloon.

The researchers looked at correlations between egg shape and traits associated with the species of bird, including nest type and location, clutch size (the number of eggs laid at a time), diet and flight ability.

A group of UF / IFAS researchers used camera traps next to 100 artificial bird nests baited with quail eggs near the Silver River.

The parasitic nest fly (Philornis downsi), which looks similar to a typical house fly, lays its eggs in the nests of Darwin's finches — the 15 species of bird on the Galápagos that helped inspire the famed biologist to formulate his ideas about natural selection.

«Streamlining in birds is determined more by plumage than the shape of the body — high performing fliers can have rounded, bulky bodies» he says, which wouldn't give elongated eggs the same advantage over other egg shapes.