Sentences with phrase «carrion birds»

Like vultures, crows are carrion birds and have a general air of otherwordly spookiness.

The carcasses are quickly stripped to the bone by foxes and carrion birds, including the first breeding pair of white - tailed eagles seen in the Netherlands since the Middle Ages.

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.

Europe's oil companies are hovering like a flock of carrion birds over the carcass of Gaddafi's regime.

Both Jesus and John describe the Son of Man coming from heaven on the clouds to conquer (Matthew 24:30; Rev 19:11 - 16), carrion birds gathering to feast on the carcasses (Matt 24:28; Rev 19:17 - 18), and the passing away of heaven and earth (Matthew 24:35; Rev 21:1).

Not exact matches

House cats, dogs, pigs, foxes, skunks, carrion - eating birds and coyotes have died after eating 1080 - poisoned rodents.»

Both birds nest on cliffs and feed on grazed land, but the choughs eat insects while the ravens feed on carrion.

Now, more than a decade later, Buechley and Şekercioğlu have examined factors affecting the extinction risk of more than 100 bird species, including 22 species of vultures, which eat carrion exclusively, and other scavenging birds that have broader diets.

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.

The researchers also recorded eight other species of carrion - eating birds, two mammals, and even a lizard taking advantage of the remains — although the tiny reptile was probably feeding on insects attracted to the carcass, says Elbroch.

Additionally, although carrion flies mainly home in on large animal carcasses, other invertebrate surveyors could help scientists study different ecosystem layers — for instance, carrion beetles, which feast on smaller carcasses, including those of birds.

In 2002 Sasha Dall, a mathematical ecologist at the University of Exeter in England, used a game theory model to explain why young ravens scout for carrion alone but then recruit other birds to join the feast.

One scene in which two huge armies face one another ends with no battle at all, after terms are successfully agreed by the leaders — while conversely the Battle of Hattin, in which Guy's vast forces were trapped and slaughtered by the waiting Saracens, is depicted only in its build - up and carrion - bird aftermath, with the actual killing left entirely to the viewers» imagination.

Raccoon Dogs feed on insects, rodents, amphibians, birds, fish, reptiles, mollusks and carrion.

They will eat almost anything, including other birds, fruits, nuts, mollusks, earthworms, seeds, frogs, eggs, nestlings, mice, and carrion.

In fact, «Shadowland» is filled with owls peering everywhere — from the corners or behind branches — as well as other fierce - looking birds in the process of feasting on their carrion.