Sentences with phrase «from other birds»

It's a brutal world in the coop and Google tells me that the new feathers Henny is growing are blood rich, which may incite attacks from other birds.
They eat seafood snatched from the ocean surface, or steal food from other birds.
Flying is a learned behavior in birds, and if your bird was raised away from other birds and really didn't have the opportunity to observe other birds fly, it's possible that she is just more comfortable walking around than flying.
Birds are susceptible to bacteria and viruses, which is why it is recommended that new birds always be quarantined from other birds and pets when you first bring them home.
External parasites, like ticks and mites, are generally more common and tend to come from other birds.
An outbreak of avian influenza in poultry farms meant the best way to keep your birds safe was to keep them at home, away from other birds.
«This strongly suggests that ravens make generalizations based on their experience and do not merely interpret and respond to behavioral cues from other birds,» Bugnyar told the Guardian.
«They would need to vibrate very quickly and likely have a special composition, which may be different from other birds,» he says.
They hand - raised scrub - jays without giving them the opportunity to steal from other birds» caches.
To quarantine your new bird, keep her as far from your other bird as possible, preferably in a different building with a different ventilation system, but at a minimum in a separate bedroom with the door closed.
Our dedication to high - quality care and customer service sets us apart from any other bird veterinarian near Danbury.

Not exact matches

Some also have 360 ° video content, while others have YouTube videos embedded — the «Beautiful Birds of Paradise» voyage employs clips from «Planet Earth» narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
Unlike other mosquito - borne diseases, such as chikungunya or Zika, West Nile and Eastern equine encephalitis are always present in the US, circulating in birds and mosquitoes, and don't need to be imported by travelers from abroad to spark outbreaks.
The other keynote address, that of Professor Chung, invoked — with its gongs, drums, and appeals to read Scripture from the perspective of birds, trees, and mountains — a very different spirit.
They, along with 150 other species of birds (which is equivalent to two - thirds of the birds in North America's forests), move each year from North America toward Central America and the Caribbean, going as far as South America, in order to spend the North American cold season in warmer latitudes.7
Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.
If we ask why birds on one isolated island have beaks different from those on others, the Darwinian answer is that they have adapted to the size and other features of edible seeds where they live.
Even the point about what is best for other creatures, which may seem very modern, is not without foundation in Hebrew Scriptures in such passages as the law against taking the hen - bird as well as the eggs from the nest (Deut 22:6), or this saying from Proverbs: «A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast» (12:10), where, be it noted, the quality that makes a man considerate of his working animals is not prudence or good business sense but «righteousness,» a point all the more significant when we remember that in the Hebrew Scriptures one of the marks of righteousness is not mere evenhandedness but active favor to the weak and deprived.
From this general hypothesis that birds like to sing and enjoy their music, Hartshorne developed other hypotheses that are testable.
Recently, Halloran became one of the founding members of a new group, the Yarra Valley Wine Women, along with nine other winemakers including Sandra de Pury from Yeringberg, Sarah Crowe from Yarra Yering and Caroline Mooney from Bird on a Wire.
Located in the Main Concourse across from Section 119, the Ludo Bird menu will featureChef Ludo's famous Buttermilk Provencal Fried Chicken alongside other dishes such as Honey Garlic Glazed Wings, Fried Chicken Sandwich and Popcorn Chicken.
There's bird crap raining all over us from the white doves they've released — the older athletes who've been in other Olympics are ready for it, they've got newspapers over their heads, but I don't know anything.
The club will not, it claims, prevent other legitimate organisations from using the Liver bird logo.
Riley's crows do not sing from the same hymn book as our beloved Dickie Bird or other much admired officials.
But I mixed them up a little bit with embellishment - some have a bit of doily love, some have freezer paper stencils, and others have fabric appliqued pieces (with help from a few of the books on my shelves: the squirrel is from Sew Liberated, the birds and chick from Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing for Baby).
Mozell's photo was chosen from a selection of 10 winners by photographers competing in «18 and Older» and «Under 18» age levels and across five subject categories: People in Nature, Birds, Other Animals, Plants and Fungi, and Landscapes.
Even before AZA included the 2 - foot - tall penguins that bray like a donkey in its SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) program, which is supported by Shedd Aquarium and 231 other AZA - member organizations, we were working side by side with South African conservationists to keep these birds afloat.
If you were born during the Sesame Street era, you may wonder why some the Muppets had to be separated from Elmo, Telly, Big Bird and the other puppets.
If appreciating the natural world from the comfort of the indoors is more your thing, you'll want to check out the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon — home to works by John James Audubon, Charley Harper, Andy Warhol, Frank W. Benson, Alexander Wilson, and others.
The studies examine everything from viable ports to turbine manufacturing and wind - farm construction and staging to the need for cables, pipelines and other infrastructure, as well as the impact on birds, bats and fish.
Using specially created cartoons, which show two characters («Timmy the Turtle» and «Billy the Bird»), interacting in various ways, the project sets out to measure (using an Implicit Attitude Test (IAT) as well as economic games), how children aged from four to fourteen perceive others» sharing.
Several other bird species ingest lead shot in the same way as waterfowl, and birds of prey can suffer lead poisoning from accidentally ingesting shot in their prey.
Her remarks come the morning after an email to supporters from Jeremy Bird, OfA's organizing director, that explained a majority of volunteers on the campaign chose to do so from a field office, while «many» used Dashboard or other online tools instead.
The researchers then compared their measurements to those of arm bones taken from 69 other species of flying dinosaurs and modern birds.
Migratory birds, on the other hand, can traverse entire hemispheres and end up just a couple miles from where they bred last year, using their senses alone.
From the ruby - throated hummingbird to the monk parakeet and the great blue heron, this book features 31 realistic illustrations of songbirds, game birds, waterfowl, and many others.
Others described injuries different from those left by bird predators, which together with mucus trails and droppings in the nests, suggests slugs as the cause of the birds» death.
In this study, researchers analyzed throat swabs and other biological samples taken from 22,892 wild ducks and other aquatic birds collected before, during and after a 2014 - 15 H5 flu outbreak in poultry.
Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).
Most human infections with H5N1 viruses come directly from birds and are not transmitted to other people.
The city birds bested their country counterparts in one other trait: They have more robust immune systems, possibly from scavenging food and water in dirty places.
Hence, according to Fitzgerald speaking from his own experience in class rooms, Hawkeye can instigate discussion on the physiology of the human eye, while also allowing for comparison with other species, such as birds of prey, and reflection on advancements related to genetic engineering and wearable technologies.
Years later, in 2007, the EPA concluded that there were «potential human health risks» from drinking - water contamination, as well as risks to birds and other wildlife.
Other research has found that Tamiflu reduces deaths from H5N1 bird flu — and that in 2009, the more Tamiflu a country had, the fewer people died.
The birds can deceive one another, and they watch and learn from each other.
We saw not only the iguanas and frigate birds familiar from San Cristóbal but also blue - footed and red - footed boobies, white - tipped reef sharks, more turtles, land iguanas, and other creatures.
This newfound noise from young Amphion floridensis may startle birds or other would - be predators not expecting something as generally quiet as most caterpillars to erupt in sound.
The artificial absence of wolves and other large predators gave cats, dogs, raccoons, and foxes license to grow fat on wild birds from the beaches to the mountainsides.
Language seems to set humans apart from other animals, but scientists can not just hand monkeys and birds an interspecies SAT to determine which linguistic abilities are singularly those of Homo sapiens and which we share with other animals.
These birds are considered brood parasites because they lay eggs into the nests of other birds and throw out the host's eggs to ensure there is no competition for food from the adoptive parents.
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