Sentences with phrase «feathers on that bird»

«I'm naturally drawn to interesting textures and colors — fuzzy peaches, gooey cheeses, irridescent feathers on birds — I love anything with a reflection,» says Lamb.

Du Toit's detail is so fine that you can see each individual feather on the birds or the fine hairs of an animal's coat.

Not exact matches

Since its 1861 discovery in Bavaria, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, most scientists have placed Archaeopteryx at the root of the broad group of proto - birds, known as Avialae, from which our avian feathered friends emerged.

At night I lined them up on my bed: fat flakes of mica, buckeyes bigger than shooter marbles, blue jay feathers, bird bones and — if I was lucky — a cicada shell, one...

«Go there in the morning and you will find the beautiful eagle on the nopal tree and around it you will see a great quantity of green, red, yellow, and white feathers of the elegant birds on which the eagle sustains himself.

All birds including eagles lose feathers naturally all the time so I think they should have to hunting for them on the ground, if they need feathers that badly.

But I doubt that the success of their ritual is contingent on the specific feathers of dead birds.

I keep my eye on the red feather in the bird - breast headpiece worn by an elfin man.

Washington (CNN)- The Justice Department sought on Friday to strike a delicate balance between the use of bald eagle feathers by Native American tribes and federal protection of the nation's symbolic bird.

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Actually they do, and at times on very odd fodder — mice and birds» feathers, for instance — and it is this instinct which makes them attack bait and lures which Pacific salmon will refuse in streams.

He brought back a magnificent set of photographs in which the hawks, down to the smallest feather, to the glint of light on the golden lores, are portrayed with such startling reality that the paper birds seem to be gathering themselves to swoop down out of the frames.

That extra understeer will have made Hartley need to feather the throttle on his way back to the pits to take on a new wing - something the bird didn't have the luxury of.

The atmosphere in Anfield would certainly put any Liver Birds feathers on end.

But over the course of the week, I watched as the circle around each of those «bouquets» grew to include rocks that Annabel had brought up from the bottom of the lake, a little bit of loose moss from Adelaide's walk in the woods, and the bluejay feathers that Ezra found on the ground (after watching a majestic eagle swoop down to capture that beautiful bird).

LINCOLN, MA — People can help their feathered friends in the coldest season by joining Mass Audubon's annual Focus on Feeders winter bird count on the weekend of February 2 - 3.

Cut out a bird shape from the construction paper, then glue on googly eyes, feathers, pom poms, whatever your «bird» would like to look like!

Then glue the turkey's body on top of the feathers, so it looks like they are sticking out from behind the bird.

People can help their feathered friends in the coldest season by joining Mass Audubon's annual Focus on Feeders winter bird count on the weekend of February 2 - 3, 2013.

Holding a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Baroda in India, he thought that his research on the «regression of feathers» in birds could add to the understanding of hair growth and loss in humans.

Anchiornis possesses well - developed feathers on all four limbs, and comes from a «critical stage along the line to birds», says Xu Xing of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

On dinosaurs, as on modern birds, feathers could have served a variety of purposes, providing lift or maneuverability during flight; a means of sending signals to other members of its species, including those of the opposite sex; or insulating against the colOn dinosaurs, as on modern birds, feathers could have served a variety of purposes, providing lift or maneuverability during flight; a means of sending signals to other members of its species, including those of the opposite sex; or insulating against the colon modern birds, feathers could have served a variety of purposes, providing lift or maneuverability during flight; a means of sending signals to other members of its species, including those of the opposite sex; or insulating against the cold.

The impact of colour on flight could be a further inducement for birds to make costly melanin pigment to darken feathers, she says.

Mike Benton, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England, had set out to show that Sinosauropteryx's hairlike bristles were precursors to the feathers on today's birds.

Today, these beetle larvae live in bird and mammal nests, feeding on sloughed - off skin and feathers.

Unlike other birds that travel over the sea, such as albatrosses, their feathers lack waterproof oil, so they can't take a break on the water.

He also found viral particles on the sparrows» feathers, meaning infected merit release birds could pass the disease on to susceptible people.

Biologists have long debated whether reptile scales, bird feathers and mammal hair evolved from the same body part on the animals» distant shared ancestor.

His experiments, which involved, no kidding, putting socks on the turkey heads, showed that if turkey heads were feathered, the birds will indeed struggle in hotter parts of the country.

Now, in a collection at the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Nature, Xu and colleagues have found 11 fossils that belong within the bird evolutionary tree and have large feathers on their hind legs.

According to new research, birds living in unpredictable climates are more likely to «cheat» on their feathered partners.

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.

But in this case, the birds didn't have any crude oil on their feathers, so the decrease in preening is probably a sign they're not feeling well, the researchers say.

Wing lice dine on the same fluffy feathers but spend most of their time on the wings or tail, where they hide in between barbs on the birds» large flight feathers.

The feather shares characteristics with the plumage that helps modern birds fly, such as longer barbs on one side of the feather's shaft than the other.

The team compared the fossil's feather layout to the distribution of feathers on other fossils, including both dinosaurs and early birds, and found a surprising amount of variation between species.

Third, the birds employ the odd strategy of molting and replacing all their tail feathers simultaneously at a time when they are also replacing the primary flight feathers on each wing.

Most budgies are green thanks to a yellow pigment, psittacofulvin, mixing with a blue hue created by light bouncing off tiny structures on the birds» feathers.

Then the researchers marked a yellow spot on the black feathers of each bird's neck and watched them again.

The second type of feather resemble the downy feathers found on modern - day birds.

A blue - feathered bird flits by, and we press on in silence.

His cataloguing of the unusual and sometimes bizarre varieties of pigeon was more than a hobby: he was an avid pigeon breeder, and devoted many pages of On The Origin of Species to documenting how readily the birds change their form when selected for unusual traits such as webbed or feathered feet.

Two reports in this issue, by McKellar et al. (1) on page 1619 and Wogelius et al. (2) on page 1622, provide a glimpse of the color patterning in the feathers of ancient birds.

All the known fossils of primitive birds (stem avians) could easily fit on a desk and our only look at Mesozoic [250 to 65 million years ago (Ma)-RSB- feathers (except for a few isolated plumes) was Archaeopteryx, a theropod dinosaur considered by most to be the most primitive bird (see the figure).

Often they do not wear gloves or protective clothing while they do this messy work, and bird feathers and bits of fecal matter can piggyback on their clothes and shoes.

«We can't rely on common sense because it's not the same for everybody, it can be contradictory — «birds of a feather flock together, but opposites attract,» for instance — and it can lead us astray.

Previous studies have revealed that human hair, reptile scales and bird feathers evolved from a single ancestor — a reptile that lived 300 million years ago — but this new study from the Fraser Lab at Sheffield has found that the skin teeth found on sharks also developed from the same genes.

Wichita State University microbiology professor Mark Schneegurt and ornithology professor Chris Rogers have discovered that one of North America's most common migratory birds — the Dark - eyed Junco — carries on its feathers a remarkable diversity of plant bacteria, the greatest ever found on wild birds.

Moreover, because some bird lice seem to have deeper evolutionary roots than mammal lice do, the team suggests that birds — whose feathers make a good roosting place for lice — became infested first and then passed the pests on to mammals.

The feathers were studied by Dr Maria McNamara (University of Bristol and University College, Cork) and Professor Michael Benton (University of Bristol), who has also worked on the feathers of Chinese dinosaurs, and Professor Danielle Dhouailly (Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France) who is a specialist on the development of feathers and scales in modern reptiles and birds.