Sentences with phrase «birds in the flesh»

But at least we'll be able to see some of these rare birds in the flesh.

And if you happen to be near the Shanghai Museum of Natural History this summer, you can see the 99 - million year old bird in the flesh, so to speak... and travel back in time, if only for a moment.

Not exact matches

His band fleshes out the skeleton that he creates on his looping machine, and Bird sings / plays guitar / whistles / plays violin in all the right places.

The many unmarried women of his generation are doomed «bird [s] in an oil slick» awaiting the fast - approaching moment when the «now - prohibitive sagging of [their] flesh» condemns them to «a lasting solitude.»

These are they who shall be brought nigh to God, In gardens of delight; A crowd of the former And a few of the latter generations; On inwrought couches Reclining on them face to face: Aye - blooming youths go round about to them With goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine; Their brows ache not from it, nor fails the sense: And with such fruits as shall please them best, And with flesh of such birds, as they shall long for: And theirs shall be the Houris, with large dark eyes, Like pearls hidden in their shells, In recompense of their labours pasIn gardens of delight; A crowd of the former And a few of the latter generations; On inwrought couches Reclining on them face to face: Aye - blooming youths go round about to them With goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine; Their brows ache not from it, nor fails the sense: And with such fruits as shall please them best, And with flesh of such birds, as they shall long for: And theirs shall be the Houris, with large dark eyes, Like pearls hidden in their shells, In recompense of their labours pasin their shells, In recompense of their labours pasIn recompense of their labours past.

A consequence is that many predators throughout the world, particularly predatory birds, get lethal concentrations of toxins in their flesh.

With a biblical greeting to Melancthon and his wife, «Farewell to you and your flesh», he dates it «in the land of the birds».

While seasoning, pay special attention to the thicker sections of the bird rather than the skinny ankles and wings, which crisp easily since there's not much flesh in their way.

This is because of the presence of bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter in the intestines of the birds and — thus — in the raw or undercooked flesh.

Read previous Zoologger columns: Slime killer hagfish feasts in rotten flesh, Female monkeys indulge in synchronised sex, The toad that's part clone, part love child, The first reptile with a true placenta, The fearsome jaws of a mini movie monster, Stealth millipede wears living camouflage, Dozy hamsters reverse the ageing process, World's nicest bird murders chicks, Architect mouse builds a food mansion, The amphibious fish that mates with itself, The world's smartest insect, The most athletic ape in the canopy.

But here, on this parched floodplain in Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park, these consummate scavengers would have been out of luck had it not been for the three fresh cuts that biologist Jen Guyton made through the waterbuck's tough hide, giving the birds access to the flesh underneath.

Duncan oversees another strange site in the tour: the room where dermestid beetles nibble tiny bits of flesh left on the bones of fish, mammals, and birds.

Scientists are finding that condors face many of the same dangers that stalked the birds 25 years ago, with the main one being lead bullet fragments that lodge in the flesh of carrion.

While it looks as if the actual skin and flesh of the bird are preserved in the amber, it's just a very detailed impression of the animal.

In a nursery experiment, Rogers found that seeds that had been ingested by birds were two - to - four times more likely to germinate than seeds still within the fruit flesh.

David Lynch's Mulholland Drive contends that the answer to the eternal struggle between what is real and what is fantasy comes in the form of a Keatsian confusion — it's the difference between Adam's dream and Eve rendered flesh, blurred in the mind of the creator and his audience.A film is a dream of the director made tangible, a conceit familiar from the fourth wall - breaking in Ingmar Bergman's Persona (banishing any mystery there might have been regarding the visual references to that film in Lynch's piece), and a movie's characters therefore become projections of its maker's sublimated longing (clarifying too the auteur's use of wardrobe and colour schemes from Hitchcock's meditation on objectification, Vertigo, as well as those of his first collaboration with inamorata Tippi Hedren, The Birds).

In the wild, your cat's entire diet would consist of one food group: the flesh of whole prey animals like mice and birds.

Whipworm in cats is caused by the ingestion of water, food or flesh (mice, birds, etc.) contaminated with adult whipworms, whipworm larva, or eggs.

Apples are in the rose family, and while their flesh is very good for your pet, their seeds contain a toxin that is highly poisonous to birds.

Painted in vast sections of creamy greens and flesh tones, this group of large - scale works depict the heads of birds, each with a beak and an eye of deep, visceral red.