Sentences with phrase «different birds at»

Not exact matches

In physical terms, for example, wings and eyes have independently emerged among animals through evolution at several different times over, and birds in ecologically isolated New Zealand have evolved behaviors typically seen in mammals elsewhere.

Using digital sling shots, they hurled spheres depicting different government programs at the birds.

Turkey, at one point in history called el ave de los ricos (the bird of the rich), is now consumed worldwide as a part of many different festive feasts from Thanksgiving to Easter.

All ovens heat at different temps so be diligent about checking your bird at least 1/2 hour before you think it should be done according to the directions.

The Smithsonian Bird - Friendly certification requires a minimum shade cover of 40 %, and the overstory should include at least ten different species of shade trees, with no more than 70 % of the trees being Inga species, which means more habitat remains appropriate for birds.

Chris Leahy led a group of Mass Audubon travelers to Uganda which offered a superb combination of excellent birding, including the chance to see many West African species impossible to see elsewhere in the region; a nice variety of iconic African mammals; the opportunity as the group travelled through different landscapes and villages to observe the colorful bustle of daily life, exceptionally pleasant accommodations, and the upbeat and welcoming attitude of the Ugandans at each stop.

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

Once birds come through, they can feed at four different equally - spaced ports.

However, the re-grouping of dinosaurs proposed in this study shows that both ornithischians AND theropods had the potential to evolve a bird - like hip arrangement - they just did so at different times in their history.

In his audio - enabled «BoomRoom» at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, emails and tweets fly around you like a flock of birds, each chirping a subtly different sound that identifies the sender.

The process is a bit different for birds, especially those residing to tropical environments, according to German Forero - Medina, a doctoral student at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.

«Most of the imprints come from at least five different species of birds; dinosaur tracks, however, are rare.

It was well - known that bears were dispersing seeds through their scat, Levi said, but it was not known that they were dispersing more seeds than birds, or the relative contribution of brown and black bears to seed dispersal, or whether the two species bears were eating berries at different times of the year.

«You could imagine, just because of the different ancestral starting points, that the Tibetan birds maybe all went one (mutational) route, and the Andean birds typically did things a different way,» said co-author Jay Storz, Susan J. Rosowski Professor of biological sciences at Nebraska.

Bird songs aren't so different from human speech, says Dmitriy Aronov, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, US, who led the study.

Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by McGill University researchers.

For another, looking at still - living related species like reptiles and birds — something paleontologists regularly do to intuit facts about dinosaur metabolism and physiology — can't answer every question, because birds and reptiles heal in very different ways.

Meanwhile, Floyd Reed, a biologist at the University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, has been working on a different kind of drive system called underdominance to prevent the Culex mosquitoes introduced to Hawaii from spreading avian malaria to endangered birds, including the Hawaiian honeycreeper.

This firm placement of Gastornis as an herbivore suggests that the community structure of Paleocene Europe was different from that found in North America at the time, and may in fact have been quite similar to the later systems seen on islands, such as Madagascar, where large flightless birds filled many different niches.

The area is rich with animal skeletons, and they estimate there are at least 13 different species of dinosaur present based on teeth and other remains, plus birds, small mammals and some fish.

To define just what changed in the face of bird ancestors, Bhullar examined scores of skulls of dinosaur fossils, birds, and alligators and other reptiles, taking hundreds of pictures at different angles.

This new publication follows a recent article describing the introduction of Eurasian HPAI H5N8 into North America at the end of 2014 and the detection of a different mixed - origin virus (HPAI H5N2) in wild birds.

When birds and humans sing it sounds completely different, but now new research reported in the journal Nature Communications shows that the very same physical mechanisms are at play when a bird sings and a human speaks.

(This could be your backyard — especially if you have a bird feeder or birdbath — or a park, field, forest, beach, aviary at a zoo, pet store or farm that has different types of birds.)

We are using a different kind of deterrent — trying to stop birds from hearing one another by playing a noise that is at the same pitch as the alarm calls or predator noises they are listening out for,» said Professor Swaddle, who is also Professor of Biology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in the US.

Using high - speed video and devices that monitor acceleration, they found that newly hatched birds could walk up slopes of 45 degrees in a large part by flapping their wings at a different angle than when flying.

At one of them, Jaakko Iisalo, one of our designers, pitched a game that was very different from what Angry Birds would be, but it featured the bBirds would be, but it featured the birdsbirds.

«This suggests that the mammal and bird sex chromosome system is not as different as we have always thought,» says Marilyn Renfree, a zoologist at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Great tits living next to each other may sing their songs at significantly different rates, more or less frequently, as compared to non-neighboring birds, according to a study published February 18, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Lysanne Snijders from Wageningen University, Netherlands and colleagues.

Scientists found that neighboring birds sang at significantly different rates - measured as songs per minute - compared to non-neighbors, where they found no effect of proximity on song rate similarity.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, the lab run by Alexander Vargas at the University of Chile has re-examined fossils stored at several museum collections, while at the same time collecting new developmental data from seven different species of modern birds.

«There was a diverse aquatic fauna at Shuitangba, including fish, crab, mollusks, turtles and frogs, as well as many different species of water birds, all of which could have been potential prey for S. melilutra.»

He reasoned that because a bird takes off faster and at a steeper angle when startled, these different wing mechanics might produce a unique sound that other birds recognize as distress.

The computers will then «learn» what kind of land cover, what timing pattern of greening and what human densities best predict bird presence, and generate a million more simulated observations for each species: points where it is predicted to be either present or absent at different times throughout the year.

During a 3 - month - long, first - of - its - kind field study at a breeding colony in the Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, researchers taped tiny, 100 - gram GPS receivers between the wings of nesting birds, gathering 36 days» worth of flight data from 16 different birds.

Ironmonger lists 130 other safari parks, aquaria, bird gardens and so on, as well as the 31 described at length; he has sections on the different animal groups kept in zoos and — extremely useful — a chart showing where all of the 350 different mammalian species and subspecies in British zoos are to be found.

They analyzed 15 different locations in the birds» DNA and found that it's likely that the Kapiti Island population, which at some 1200 birds is by far the biggest, is losing some of its precious genetic variation with every generation, for reasons that are unclear.

«Birds have quite a different visual system to ours,» says Thanh - Lan Gluckman at the University of Cambridge, so the work could also help us understand what one bird sees in another.

The genomes show that the bird parasites were widespread because they infected different bird groups that occurred in each of the world's major tropical regions and would have been isolated from each other at the time.

«On the one hand, there was this idea that the third eye was simply reduced independently in many different vertebrate groups such as mammals and birds and is retained only in lizards among fully land - dwelling vertebrates,» says Krister Smith at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Germany.

The study drew on fourteen years of data from twelve different warbler species banded at the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory, and the patterns were remarkably consistent across species.

Obviously, the level of detail is very different and I am looking at things from a different perspective, with more of a bird's - eye view.

«I remember saying to a student, «I don't know what this bird does, but it does something different from any other corvid on Earth because its bill is so weird,»» said McGowan, project manager for distance learning in bird biology at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

If there is no movement between birds from different elevations and / or mountains, then song structure could be different at all four locations.

At least some scientists have concluded that the head - bobbing seen in pigeons and many other bird species with eyes on opposite sides of the head also serves to provide parallax data from two different positions.

In a new finding with implications to human learning, memory, and speech acquisition, researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have correlated the simple notes and more complex passages of a bird's song to activity in different areas of the brain.

Interestingly, these activity patterns were at slight variance, as if the bird was rehearsing a variety of slightly different songs, sometimes with slower or faster tempos.

This blue - and - red «birds of a feather» interpretation by tattoo artist Geoff at Special Effects Tattooing offers a totally different way to wear these beloved symbols.

In the face of humidity, rain, angry taxi drivers and the 1000 different odours we experienced during the week (think of the olfactory variety at the flowers, bird and gold fish markets!)

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