Sentences with phrase «birds of prey flying»

The National Park is rich in wildlife with wild birds of prey flying across the moorlands.

Not exact matches

The birds of prey swooped down after the «peace» doves flew from the open window in the Apostolic Palace.

Based on a peatland model developed at the University of York and latest climate change predictions, the researchers warn that by 2051 - 80 the dunlin could see a 50 % decline in numbers, with the golden plover down 30 % and the red grouse down by 15 %, all driven by declining abundance of the birds» crane fly prey.

He's talking about a flightless caracara, like a bird of prey that can't fly, but lived in Jamaica.»

«It's often suggested that using birds of prey, flown by falconers, might act as a gull deterrent,» she says.

A University of Utah study showed that when the cotton is treated with permethrin — a mild pesticide used in human head - louse shampoo — and the birds use the cotton in their nests, blood - sucking fly maggots are killed, thereby protecting the finches and their offspring that often fall prey to the maggots.

The researchers finally used the data together with previously known color vision of the bird predator, and the fruit fly prey, to model how visible the wing coloration is in natural environments.

In the new paper the researchers studied the conspicuous wing coloration of two species of damselflies, which are predated by birds and prey on small flies.

Before I moved to California and got a chihuahua - mix, I had no idea that birds of prey frequently attack and attempt to fly off with small dogs.

See free flying birds of prey, meet rare and endangered animals in the nocturnal house, and take a cinematic journey through millions of years of desert evolution.

Inside the Nocturnal House you can see all the animals that normally only come out after dark and don't miss the twice - daily free - flying bird demonstrations, where birds of prey swoop out of the sky.

Here are a few things you may want to consider here in Dullstroom: Fly - Fishing lessons and rod hire, Horse riding, Clay Pigeon Shooting, Bird of Prey, iCreate - arts and crafts workshops and session, Anvil Ale - local Brewery, Wild about Whisky - offer great whisky tasting and pairing as well as gin tasting and a wide gin selection; Mountain Biking Club, Bric - a brac shopping, Restaurants and deli's, golf — Highlands Gate Golf Estate.

As soon as they make a photo realistic game / experience where I can fly like a bird of prey, Im throwing down the coin.

Empathetic to such subjects as a plover flying through the mist, a snake holding its prey in the moonlight, surf birds cradled in the sea, or a raccoon safely curled up in hibernation for the winter, Graves revealed the mysteries of nature as if he himself were the subject.

Sooner or later, say the environmentalists, somebody may find out how to deter birds of prey from flying into spinning blades.

«The Robirds are robotic birds of prey that fly just like a real bird, through flapping wing motion,» Wessel Straatman, an R&D engineer at Clear Flight Solutions, told Digital Trends.