Sentences with phrase «helps young birds»

Unable to fly, nestling birds depend on their parents for both food and protection: vocal communication between parents and offspring helps young birds to determine when they should beg for food and when they should crouch in the nest to avoid a predator seeking an easy meal.

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While the bird's surgery may be used to help other arthritic cranes, younger, healthy captive birds need preventive care.

Previous studies of birds show that here, too, non-breeding adults often help breeders to raise their young in species living in dry unpredictable environments.

Hosts infected by viruses found new uses for the genetic material the agents of disease left behind; metabolic enzymes somehow came to refract light rays through the eye's lens; mammals took advantage of the sutures between the skull bones to help their young pass through the birth canal; and, in the signature example, feathers appeared in fossils before the ancestors of modern birds took to the skies.

The bountiful fish helped the birds successfully reproduce and feed their young, according to the new study.

These birds will often sacrifice their chance to raise a family of their own, staying to help their parents raise younger brothers and sisters instead.

Animal conservation is at the heart of this moving novel, set in contemporary Scotland, that follows a young boy who rallies help to protect an endangered osprey — eventually tracking the electronically tagged bird's journey to Africa and finding allies to rescue her when she is in danger.

If you've ever wondered — or tried to explain — what birds are saying as they flit about in trees or preen on their perches, help is here: Lita Judge's new book, Bird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why, is a wonderfully illustrated compendium of bird behavior and communication for young reabirds are saying as they flit about in trees or preen on their perches, help is here: Lita Judge's new book, Bird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why, is a wonderfully illustrated compendium of bird behavior and communication for young readBird Talk: What Birds Are Saying and Why, is a wonderfully illustrated compendium of bird behavior and communication for young reaBirds Are Saying and Why, is a wonderfully illustrated compendium of bird behavior and communication for young readbird behavior and communication for young readers.

And Judge's eye for color will help young readers connect the fascinating images and facts in the book with what they see in real life, whether gazing up at flashes of blue or red in a tree, admiring vivid plumage in the bird - house at a zoo, or clicking through bird photos online.

«Exposure to a wide variety of objects at a young age helps to create a more confident and less fearful bird,» says White.

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Allowing a young bird to fly will help build up its muscles.

In fact, all parrot owners need to be shown the step - up command with their young bird to help avoid behavioral problems when a bird is being taken out of its cage.

On land our birding tours where you can watch and enjoy the birds of this tropical paradise or the turtle where in addition to the conservation of these animals learning participate releasing their young to help her recovery, plus Wildlife Connection going to San Blas and Tuito to make a bird watching expedition specialist, also visited Cuatro Cienegas in Coahuila.

A pair of Armenian researchers who locals call the «stork girls» are recruiting «nest neighbors» in rural villages to help them monitor the country's population of the large wading birds, which have traditionally been a symbol of luck and success in the former Soviet Republic.For the past four years, ArmeniaNow reports, young scientists Lusine Stepanyan and Maro Kochinyan have been visiting «virtually every area where storks nest in Armenia [to] distribute special calendars among the residents living near the nests.»

Since many birds require both young and old forest habitat to survive, these results help landowners understand how to manage for forest products, while enhancing the land's value for birds.

Every day Big Bird, Elmo, Abby, and friends help young children engage with learning like no one else can.