Sentences with phrase «birds peck»

You can also find «preening» toys, which birds peck at and groom, and cuddle toys.

Babbler denoted the image of a bird pecking away at a scrap of bread.

Brined, air - dried, steamed, roasted at three escalating temperatures, and, finally, paraded through the dining room on a bed of flaming hay, it's the dish that secured chef Greg Proechel's coveted spot in the whole - bird pecking order.

The evidence was plain as day: bird peck marks covered a frosty pipe that was connected to the cooling system, the researchers said.

Wall paintings depict violent stories from Greek mythology, such as the story of Prometheus: a large bird pecks out a man's liver (there's blood on the beak and the man's abdomen), a man plucks out his eyes (we see blood spurting), a woman slaughters her two children, and a man kills his three children.

The bird pecking at a head wound is more preposterous than disgusting, but there's also the scene where workers are transporting a huge block of ice into town that flips the equation.

There will still be injuries, but at least the doctor won't treat them by having a bird peck at the wound.

When there are blood stains or wounds, take extra care as follicles of the skin can get infected; especially when the bird pecks excessively at the wounds.

I'm so over the birds and really never got into them because it always brought back bad memories of the movie «The Birds» with Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren... lots of birds pecking in that one;) I'm have a new logo / banner designed for my blog and that was the first of my elimination process... all the designed she presented with birds in them... lol Have a great day.

Not exact matches

This is even observable in the animal world; sometimes when a bird encounters a rival, they don't fight or flee, they just peck at the ground.

On a cloudy summer day, Iowa farmer Wendy Johnson lifts the corner of a mobile chicken tractor, a lightweight mesh - covered plastic frame that has corralled her month - old meat chickens for a few days, and frees several dozen birds to peck the surrounding area at will.

In the case of many types of birds, such as the jackdaw, a precise hierarchical order is established so that everyone knows who can peck whom — literally — down to the lowest unmated female who has no one to peck.

I guess if this man want to escape he can use his nose to peck out of prison wall like the wood - pecker bird lol!

Doc: And, when they took photos, there was a bird inside the camera pecking out the picture and saying something like «awwwk, it's a living...»

Chickens also have a pecking order, and if a fight breaks out among floor birds, the loser of a chicken fight can undergo an involuntary change of career from laying eggs to becoming someone's dinner.

Your little bird friends are adorable, I woke up this morning to a woodpecker pecking outside my window, I just love sights and sounds of spring.

Turkeys don't eat grass, but we make sure all the turkey meat in our paleo bars is free - range, meaning the birds are raised on - pasture and have the ability to graze, peck and roost as they please.

When it comes to the consumer's perception of «free - range,» arguably the vision that «free - range» most often conjures is of a bird happily hunting and pecking in the grass in an open field.

Commercial growers occasionally report that birds, especially some varieties of blackbirds, damage the pods on their plants by pecking through them to eat the seeds.

Coles «does not allow our suppliers to clip the wings of birds laying for Coles brand» but does allow for «a bird's beak to be trimmed in order to prevent pecking which can cause welfare issues in flocks» but a spokesman said it was done «in keeping with recommendations from the RSPCA».

Aren't those pecking birds so sweet?

The story narrated by a dog features Jim Crow as a bird who pecks at people.

De Blasio is pecking away at his predecessor's legacy, this time clipping the wings of «Birdie,» a symbolic bird created by the Bloomberg administration to promote sustainability.

First Zeuxis revealed his — a bunch of grapes so lusciously lifelike that birds swooped down to peck at the canvas.

Hornworm moth larvae respond aggressively when pecked by vertebrate predators such as birds, but it wasn't clear whether they reacted toward invertebrate predators in a similar fashion — and whether invertebrates, too, could have played a role in the evolution of caterpillar defenses.

A microphone sensor that monitors LIGO's surroundings caught the sounds of pecking birds on tape in July 2017, Berger, of the LIGO Laboratory at Caltech, said.

This would never have been possible in other years, for then the birds would soon have pecked up every grain that fell to the ground.»

Breeders can produce more affable birds, says a researcher from Indiana, eliminating the need to «de-beak» birds to stop them pecking each other to death.

When the team used forceps to simulate the peck of a bird's beak, the caterpillars forced air through the small holes on either side of their body — normally used for breathing — to produce a high - pitched whistle.

The sets would appear on a computer screen, and the birds would have to peck at them in the correct, ascending sequence to get a reward of food.

The birds often peck at each other's feathers, causing painful scars, bleeding, and even death.

According to bird - welfare researcher Bas Rodenburg of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, the best explanation is that they've evolved to peck for food in the wild, and this need is not satisfied on the farm.

Zeuxis uncovered his work: he had painted grapes so realistic that birds flew from the sky to peck at them.

On average they made 6.6 more pecks per minute than birds at the centre of the flock.

The birds use their left hemisphere to peck for seeds and their right hemisphere to detect predators.

KNOXVILLE — A study of aggression in monk parakeets suggests that where they stand in the pecking order is a function of the bird's carefully calibrated perceptions of the rank of their fellow - feathered friends.

They even caught one raven in the act that was pecking at the ice — likely to slurp up the bird equivalent of a slushy, Beverly Berger, a physicist and ombudsperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, said at the conference, according to Science News.

You don't need to go pecking at the bird feeder.

And the bird kept pecking at her face!

She wants a better life for her daughter, but she's not great at showing it; she's also closer to the bird that lives on her shoulder and keeps pecking at her ear than she is with Tonya.

Speaking straight to the camera, nearly unrecognizable, she's wrinkled, sporting an awkward bowl cut, giant glasses, and a voluminous fur coat with an energetic bird sitting on her left shoulder, pecking at her oxygen tube.

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The tablet is only given out to first graders, and they only learn to play angry bird and peck at a screen.

I was a student and needed babysitting work, and so I would walk from interview to interview in these attractive but wintry neighborhoods, the eerie multitudes of robins pecking at the frozen ground, dun - gray and stricken — though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken — until at last, late in my search, at the end of a week, startlingly, the birds had disappeared.

From the first time I'd taken her she'd been enchanted with the chickadees and titmice and nuthatches that pecked seeds from her palm, and when she was younger she'd treated feeding the birds as if they depended on it.

A bird may try to peck it to death.

If the infection goes untreated, the bird may start to peck at the infected area until it becomes ulcerated, and the more the infection progresses, the higher the risk will be that it could prove fatal.

You could also wrap the entire food dish in paper, so your bird must scratch or peck through the paper in order to eat.

Although there are many wood chews to choose from, you can also clip on a puzzle or piñata bird cage toy to get them thinking instead of just blindly pecking.

All these other species (horses, elephants, lions, birds, even humans... etc.) still have a pecking order, but now we deny there is a pecking order when it comes to dogs... and all this comes from people who are into operant conditioning.