Sentences with phrase «consumed by a bird»

The dark, one - inch long berries have been eaten by mankind since before recorded history and are also consumed by birds, racoons, skunks, and squirrels.

Previous research has shown that the food consumed by a bird, as well as its general well - being, can influence the colour of its feathers.

The installation was designed to be consumed by birds and whatever rouge animals could circumvent the fencing and to change with impact from weather and gnawing.

Most birds attain their color through pigment in the things they eat, but blue pigments consumed by birds are destroyed during digestion, so what's the secret?

Not exact matches

In Animal Liberation, which has sold half a million copies, Singer preaches against eating meat, consuming eggs or milk produced by maltreated birds, and wearing leather or fur.

It prevents animals from eating the chiles, so that they can be consumed by fruit - eating birds who specialize in red fruits with small seeds.

«Leonardo was consumed by the dynamics of flight,» he says, speculating that Leonardo's drawings suggest he possessed «preternatural vision» that allowed him to see birds «as we would in slowing down a fast film to a flicker.»

However, by the time the turkeys were processed at the Penn State Poultry Education and Research Center in December, the birds that consumed natural feedstuffs weighed essentially the same as turkeys in the control group that ate only commercial poultry feed.

She revels in it, and her latest work — «Extinct Birds Previously Consumed by Humans» — uses the remains of the recently dead to recreate long - gone creatures.

«Given that cattle breeders usually sow grass species as fodder, our results should be used for managing cattle stocks with bird conservation in mind by selecting the fodder species that are most consumed by the most specialized seed - eating birds,» says Marone.

A broad, multi-locus approach was employed to examine what is likely to be a varied diet consumed by several bird species.

Opening with a lingering shot of a snake consuming a fish, followed by some boys playing with a dead bird, Hide Your Smiling Faces wastes no time with setting it's menacing tone.

While Lady Bird revels in the hyper - specificities of suburban teenagehood in the early aughts (Dave Matthews Band songs, puka shell necklaces, TV news consumed by the burgeoning war in Iraq), it also waxes universal about young love and sex, class and mother - daughter dynamics, and the ever - shifting meaning of home.

Bird's spare, B - movie direction is matched by the pulpy commentary of the screenplay, which posits the hunger that cannibalism provokes as a metaphor for American Expansionism, an all - consuming greed that will not cease.

Your kitty can contract this disease by consuming an infected rodent, bird or any contaminated faeces from an infected animal.

Cats become infected by roundworms by consuming raw prey like birds and rodents that have consumed beetles and worms that are infested.

You could be forgiven in thinking that we've become all consumed by the forthcoming iPad 2 announcement later this evening - that or AR Week, which is currently raging on Pocket - lint - but we can still find the time for a fantastic piece of Angry Birds... Read more

A team of scientists led by the U.S. Geological Survey found that polar bears, increasingly forced on shore due to sea ice loss, may be eating terrestrial foods including berries, birds and eggs, but any nutritional gains are limited to a few individuals and likely can not compensate for lost opportunities to consume their traditional, lipid - rich prey — ice seals.