Sentences with phrase «feed on birds»

Red mites love to hide in tight, cramped spaces during the day and feed on birds at night.

When the mosquitoes feed on birds harboring West Nile, they can then transmit the virus to humans.

Salt marsh mosquitoes, on the other hand, pose a greater risk of disease transmission, says Andreadis, because they feed on birds about a third of the time and on mammals more than half the time.

Bite: A. americanum larvae and nymphs feed on birds and deer, even lizards and have been known to transmit STARI, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, and other Lyme - like diseases, but the CDC does not recognize the lone star as a transmitter of true Lyme.

«Health Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picente said.

Bats in Brazil exclusively feed on bird blood, but new arrivals in their territory are now on the menu — they have been caught feasting on human blood

There are large populations of hermit crabs that feed on the bird droppings.

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Josh Bruno's grandfather enjoys the simpler things in life: Watching the Phillies on television, or feeding the many birds in his backyard.

British Airways passengers in need of a nap will soon have the option to zone out on hours of footage of people knitting, walking in the park and feeding birds.

Here the figures of speech, the examples selected, and the persons addressed all belong to the villages of Galilee — the savorless salt thrown into the street, the one lamp that lights the whole household, the village blasphemer with his string of profanity and terms of abuse, the temple pilgrim offering his one gift, the village judge and the jailer, the local ruffian swift to strike, the king's man or garrison officer who compels the peasant to carry his baggage or to yield up his own cloak, the sinner's field wet with the same rain that falls on his righteous neighbor's, the local tax collector, the birds of the air and the lilies of the field, the child asking to be fed, the fruitful trees and the unfruitful, the wise and foolish house - builders.

Because birds will have been feeding on the berries, avoid picking those that have any white coloring on them.

Invertebrates, fruit, and nectar are the most important food sources for birds in coffee plantations, so coffee farms are especially important to bird species that feed on these resources.

Organic turkey means that the bird ate no GMO grains but was raised on certified organic feed.

We dined on the sand — fed the birds, watched the waves and took in the ocean air.

Many bird species feed on insects, and an abundant presence may thus also contribute to a better natural pest control.

Very rural, a lovely «Red Robin» plant, which brings the birds to the garden, including my lovely young Blackbird, who is so tame, he sits on the lawn waiting for breakfast, and Mrs Robin, who sits on the garden table next to me, feeding from my hand

But if he's attacking his food with great speed, or if we're on the go, I'm sure I'll keep feeding him like a baby bird.

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What about feeding tropical birds from your hand, floating on a winding river, snorkeling with tropical fish and relaxing on a sandy beach?

In honour of that event we are focusing on feeding the birds...

Here we stand, like birds in the wilderness, waiting to be fed the news of a deal that will finally brings this session — which is really on its last gasps, and has been for a while — to a close.

They also collected ticks that had fed on different kinds of wildlife, including birds, rodents, opossums, and raccoons.

FEEDING wild birds has become a near universal pastime in backyards and on balconies around the world.

Now, testing the fifth and sixth generation of the birds, Jensen and his colleagues have looked more deeply into these traits, focusing on metabolism, feeding efficiency, and body chemicals involved in boldness.

To ensure the long - term survival of brown pelicans along the Gulf coast, significant work may be needed in coming years to restore the wetlands and fisheries that the birds depend on for breeding and feeding.

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

GPS tracking devices on 17 birds showed that the landfill life might mean up to 100 - kilometer round - trips to feed — healthy distances, but far shorter than their historic migration routes.

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

Citizen scientists will be enlisted to collect data on birds and aquatic insects for Jackson's project, which seeks to quantify how contaminants such as mercury move through the food chain: from aquatic insects to the riparian birds that feed upon them.

Her thesis was on nectar - feeding birds and their role in pollinating mistletoe.

Much as migrating birds or spawning insects rely on the timing of spring so that there is enough available food when they arrive in a given region, so, too, the salmon rely on the timing of phytoplankton blooms, followed by the zooplankton bloom that then feeds baby salmon.

The scientists analyzed 15 predatory bird species living within the geographic ranges of periodical cicadas that could potentially feed on the insects, including red headed woodpeckers, blue jays and gray catbirds.

As bacteria fed on the creatures that rained from above, they produced toxic gases — methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulfide — that in turn bubbled up to poison the birds and insects flying overhead.

Those plants pass on enough energy to sustain a limited number of insects, which in turn supply food for the occasional reptile or bird, all of which ultimately feed the bacteria.

It does, however, appear to have been our companion since we first took to dwelling in caves: At least 12 species of blood - sucking Cimex bugs are parasites of bats, and many others feed on cave - nesting birds.

One of the interesting things to study, we know Central Park is important for migratory birds and we know that they depend upon the food resources that are here, but no one has ever really done a systematic survey of what actually they are feeding on, like we have never done a canopy study of all the invertebrates up in the trees to see what's coming out when and what is the predominant part of the diet of different birds and sort of quantifying; but what they have done — people have done — with shore birds and sort of gauging, weighing them, you know, catching them, weighing them, seeing how much weight they gain over time while they are rather resting and feeding before they depart on their northern trip.

Now, a year later, the single bird still returns and is sometimes fed, but on occasion will ignore food and other distractions, go to the area the dead bird was found and call softly to its lost mate.

Using a new technique for closely studying host blood DNA, the team determined the host origin for three - quarters of these samples, showing that the flies had fed on over 20 different species ranging from elephants and hippopotamuses to reptiles and birds.

Some birds swooped down on other flying birds like a fighter pilot; others pounced on birds feeding on the ground.

Birds, bats, fish, and many significant wetland species, including dragonflies, feed on them.

To feed such a colony, says entomologist Janusz Wojtusiak of the Zoological Museum in Kraków, Poland, the ants, each about three - tenths of an inch long, prey on relatively large insects as well as on birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, and even bats.

A Tufted Titmouse visits a feeding platform as part of an experiment on how traffic noise affects birds» responses to alarm calls.

The Refuge is recognized internationally as an important feeding, resting and breeding ground for millions of migratory birds on the Pacific and Central Flyways.

Birds feeding on these fish would need to be larger - sized and have teeth, offering additional clues to Tingmiatornis arctica's characteristics.

Data - loggers installed along a narrow travel pathway from the sea were used to gather accurate data on how much time tagged adult birds spent away from the island and how frequently they returned to feed their chicks.

Invasive earthworms in New England's forests are absorbing toxic metal pollutants in potentially hazardous levels that may be contributing to a decline in birds, amphibians and mammals that feed on them, a Dartmouth - led study finds.

Measuring around 30 cm, the bird reportedly fed on lobelia nectar.

BCD02 has an effect on skin pigmentation in birds, with one form associated with white or grey skin, and another associated with yellow skin in well - fed chickens.

He added: «Our research has the potential to improve the way we manage conflicts between wildlife conservation and agricultural activities — not just involving large grazing bird species — but perhaps lions which prey on livestock in rural Africa, or hen harriers feeding on economically valuable grouse in the UK.»