Sentences with phrase «dead birds in»

Ernst writes of Spit Island, «Unlike the other islands there were few dead birds in evidence, and only two adults were found tangled in the brush.

Thus, 183 dead birds in two months became an estimate of 28,380 dead birds in a year.

At Ivanpah, plant operators told regulators they found a total of 183 dead birds in April and May.

Now, the virus has been found in dead birds in Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana.

After residents complained for years about dead birds in their yards, 22 American robins, six European starlings and one bluebird were collected last year.

The artist posed his dead birds in lifelike poses on a board strung with wires «on which the specimen could be impaled,» Olson wrote in Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America, a book that complements the exhibition.

Right before I found a cave with a bunch of dead birds in it... #travel #kayaking #ocean #caves #dubrovnik #explore #solotravel #europe #backpacking #vacationmode #happyplace #tbt

Well, I found a dead bird in my yard and it became dinner for the insects and scavengers without my having done anything.

I had a 4 month old pom that had no signs at all until the 28th when I found a dead bird in my living room.

Burk Uzzle, Dead Bird in Mirror, Florida, ca. 1975.

Not exact matches

The investigation witnessed a worker chucking a live chick in a wheelbarrow of dead and dying birds and leaving it for an hour, before coming back to empty the wheelbarrow into another bin.

Whether they help pass the dead time in traffic or spiral you to run harder on the treadmill, they're the perfect mix of information and entertainment — it's really like killing two (or three) birds with one stone.

One of my earliest childhood memories is standing in the back garden of our family home as my grandfather recited a prayer of committal for a dead bird we had just buried in the flowerbed.

Bringing life to a dried fish (this is only present in later texts)(First group) 3 Miracles — Breathes life into birds fashioned from clay, curses a boy, who then becomes a corpse, curses a boy who falls dead and his parents become blind Attempt to teach Jesus which fails, with Jesus doing the teaching 3 Miracles — Reverses his earlier acts, resurrects a friend who fell from a roof, heals a man who chopped his foot with an axe [1]

Indeed, it is You who is Knower of the unseen» (109)[The Day] when Allah will say, «O Jesus, Son of Mary, remember My favor upon you and upon your mother when I supported you with the Pure Spirit and you spoke to the people in the cradle and in maturity; and [remember] when I taught you writing and wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when you designed from clay [what was] like the form of a bird with My permission, then you breathed into it, and it became a bird with My permission; and you healed the blind and the leper with My permission; and when you brought forth the dead with My permission; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from [killing] you when you came to them with clear proofs and those who disbelieved among them said, «This is not but obvious magic.»

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

The little proverb in verse 37 should doubtless refer to vultures (this is the reading in the RSV footnote), to make clearer the image of a bird preparing to devour a dead body.

In the (inning), he ran into trouble when (hitter) blooped a 110 - foot dead bird over the head of (dejected infielder).

«It would add more excitement to shooting and make it easier for referees to call dead or lost birds in registered shoots.»

He then asked, «Master, is the bird I hold in my hands alive or dead.»

But these stunning portraits are all of birds that have been found dead in the city.

They hear about it in fairy tales, see it on TV, and encounter dead bugs, birds, or squirrels on the sidewalk or roadside.

Margaret Thatcher used their famous «Dead Parrot» sketch in 1990 to mock the newly - unveiled bird symbol of the Liberal Democrats: «This is a dead parrot... it has ceased to be.&raDead Parrot» sketch in 1990 to mock the newly - unveiled bird symbol of the Liberal Democrats: «This is a dead parrot... it has ceased to be.&radead parrot... it has ceased to be.»

especially perhaps the 2nd line... and the line «Before we all go under»... Rows of houses, all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out This machine will, will not communicate These thoughts and the strain I am under Be a world child, form a circle Before we all go under And fade out again and fade out again Cracked eggs, dead birds Scream as they fight for life I can feel death, can see its beady eyes All these things into position All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again and fade out again Immerse your soul in love IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOin love IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOIN LOVE

The dead birds started turning up in mid-October.

Birds are kept in cramped and overcrowded conditions, in which they are unable to perform natural behaviours such as scratching and dust - bathing; they are frequently «debeaked» in order to prevent fighting and self - harm; they are denied darkness and food in order to encourage constant egg - laying; and conditions in sheds can be unhygienic, with hens living amongst dead birds and faBirds are kept in cramped and overcrowded conditions, in which they are unable to perform natural behaviours such as scratching and dust - bathing; they are frequently «debeaked» in order to prevent fighting and self - harm; they are denied darkness and food in order to encourage constant egg - laying; and conditions in sheds can be unhygienic, with hens living amongst dead birds and fabirds and faeces.

In a change election, Quinn was tied inescapably to the Bloomberg administration in which she was de facto deputy mayor, and as de Blasio's campaign took off in the last few crucial weeks of the campaign by promising regime change, the big dead bird around Quinn's neck dragged her down and sunk heIn a change election, Quinn was tied inescapably to the Bloomberg administration in which she was de facto deputy mayor, and as de Blasio's campaign took off in the last few crucial weeks of the campaign by promising regime change, the big dead bird around Quinn's neck dragged her down and sunk hein which she was de facto deputy mayor, and as de Blasio's campaign took off in the last few crucial weeks of the campaign by promising regime change, the big dead bird around Quinn's neck dragged her down and sunk hein the last few crucial weeks of the campaign by promising regime change, the big dead bird around Quinn's neck dragged her down and sunk her.

To be precise, Carneiro points to hunting as the main source of lead in these birds of prey, via the intake of meat with bullet traces in the remains of dead animals.

Then his hit - and - run interests in fringe topics: dead birds (archaeopteryx); stone circles (Stonehenge); and life being seeded from elsewhere (panspermia).

Citizen Scientists regularly walked beaches along in these regions surveying for sick and dead birds.

Volunteers for the aptly named AMBLE regularly walked beaches in Door County in Wisconsin, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, recording the number of sick and dead birds of different species.

At Copan, to the south, for example, fifth - century mourners dressed their dead queen in burial garments shimmering with precious greenstone beads, shell ornaments and feathered bird heads, and they laid her to rest on a massive carved funerary slab in what is known today as the Margarita Tomb.

Some defence strategies are well known: fish and birds gather in shoals for safety, possums play dead, bees sting, and skunks spray a liquid so repulsive that humans caught in the blast are almost always reduced to vomiting.

On morning we sadly found one of the birds dead on our front lawn, and subsequently disposed of the body in the rubbish.

In her landmark book, she documented a litany of evils observed after DDT and other organochlorine insecticides were sprayed on landscapes, rivers, and lawns: dead birds and paralyzed birds, pigeons dropping from the sky, bird nests without eggs and eggs that did not hatch, dead fish and fish swimming in circles, cancers in humans, and a buildup of DDT in the fat of animals and peoplIn her landmark book, she documented a litany of evils observed after DDT and other organochlorine insecticides were sprayed on landscapes, rivers, and lawns: dead birds and paralyzed birds, pigeons dropping from the sky, bird nests without eggs and eggs that did not hatch, dead fish and fish swimming in circles, cancers in humans, and a buildup of DDT in the fat of animals and peoplin circles, cancers in humans, and a buildup of DDT in the fat of animals and peoplin humans, and a buildup of DDT in the fat of animals and peoplin the fat of animals and people.

There has never been such a display before or since, and what else could it be but «friends» of the dead bird holding a «wake» in remembrance?

Burying beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides) live in European forests and in North American bogs, where they scour the landscape for dead mice and birds.

Metal leg bands, each with a unique code, will help biologists identify birds that are recaptured in the future, or help identify remains if the bird is found dead.

But North American avian species had never contracted WNV, and the novel pathogen spread across the continent in just 5 years, leaving millions of birds, from jays to sparrows to finches, dead in its wake.

An unusually large number of birds were found starving and dead in the sea.

So researchers turned to two different estimation methods — one whereby total mortalities were estimated from the actual number of dead birds recovered, and another in which information on the geographic extent of the oil slick and seabird densities were used to estimate potential mortalities.

At a time when the birds should have been «fat and sassy, in the best body condition,» she says, many ended up dead.

In 2012 turbines killed more bats than birds, and the numbers of the dead were substantial: about 888,000 bats were found on wind farms, compared with 573,000 birds.

«Necrophilia in birds and non-human mammals is not a functional strategy but a mistake,» says Kees Moeliker from the Natural History Museum Rotterdam in the Netherlands, who described a case of homosexual duck necrophilia, in which a drake mallard copulated with a dead male for 75 minutes.

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.

For eco-artists such as Rupp, there is a haunting beauty in bringing the past back, of recreating the dead and gathering them together — in this picture, a pair of moas, a great auk, and a dodo, birds that never would have met while alive — so that those of us in the world of the living can learn from them.

More than 8,000 birds, sea turtles, and marine mammals were found injured or dead in the six months after the spill.

Therefore, to be buried in limestone, the animal must lie on the seafloor — unusual for a dead bird.

That's why short - winged birds were more likely to end up alive in the nets, not dead on the street.

«It's easy for people to see and understand marine litter in the form of visible plastic pieces on a beach or a dead bird entangled in plastic wire,» says Halsband.