Sentences with phrase «hunting birds by»

Not exact matches

To save the birds, beasts, and fish from complete destruction, hunting and fishing have to be controlled by a system of limits and licenses.

Eggnog frolics, candy - pullings, charades, dances and every description of games that can be played indoors or out and indulged in, and horseback - riding, driving, fox - hunting, bird - hunting, and every description of equestrian exercise are participated in by both sexes.

For example, narwhals in northwest Greenland have long been hunted by subsistence hunters, notes study co-author Fernando Ugarte, head of the department of birds and mammals at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk.

Since the bats hunt by night and the birds only roost by day, the capture must happen mid-flight, they argue in the 7 August issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A new study by researchers at Cornell University provides one simple answer: bird watching and hunting.

And they found that the hunted specimens» brains were actually five percent smaller, on average, than the brains of birds that died by other means.

But in turn, the lizards are hunted by a host of predators, including birds of prey, snakes and carnivorous mice.

Loggerhead shrikes, also called butcher birds, are songbirds that hunt small animals by impaling them on thorns or barbed wire.

Significantly more light has been shed on the matter by the recent work of one Simon Baron - Cohen, a professor at the University of Cambridge, who theorized that men love birding less for its resemblance to the macho practice of hunting than for its resemblance to the unglamorous practice of accounting.

In this masterful biography, Bird and Sherwin draw on thousands of documents to create an indelible portrait of a brilliant, naive physicist undone by a merciless McCarthy - era witch hunt.

The birds were market - hunted until they were all gone on the mainland by the 1880s, and the last one died on Martha's Vineyard in 1932, nationally lamented.

Shoes, Vest and Tee c / o ShopBop / / Photography by Lil Bird / / Hair by Erica This vest is such a good basic and one that I've hunted for!

The Dolby 5.1 soundtrack is fine, with no problems to report on, though the mix is largely front / center - based and only really boosted by Ford's bird hunting scene and plenty of female pop tunes (full list here; despite the film's title and tagline, there's as much as Oasis here as in Definitely Maybe, which is none).

The children of these families wouldn't look at us, and they jumped at the sound of chopping wood or as stones landed on the tin roofs flung by children hunting birds with slingshots.

Engage your cat's natural abilities by providing opportunities to «hunt» for toys that mimic movements of birds or rodents.

Besides killing two birds with one stone by letting the dogs both play and «hunt», the fact that no dog should be fast enough to catch the lure makes it such that the canines» physical limits are pushed, resulting in better, more vigorous exercise.

He is learning more than you can ever teach him by just experiencing this, and even if you have no intention of ever hunting over your Weimaraner again, wild birds will teach him more than any trainer can in the same number of sessions.

Field Phase — The dog is hunted in cover where the presence of game has been assured by the releasing of game birds.

The German zoologist Paul Leyhausen (1916 — 1998), who spent the bulk of his career studying the behavior of cats, found that cats, frustrated by the difficulties of catching them, «may soon give up hunting birds.»

Pets can also become infected by ingesting another animal's feces or through hunting and ingestion of birds and rodents.

While all English setters come from the same stock of dogs (like pit bulls and Am Staffs) they too have been divided by those who breed for show wins and those who breed for bird hunting.

The dog's appearance is similar to that of foxes which are know to hunt waterfowl by attracting the birds to the shore's edge.

Sheepmen and cattlemen developed breeds to herd and drive, farmers and businessmen founded breeds to hunt vermin and guard the hearth, shooters designed the ultimate bird dogs and spent hours by the fire debating the virtues of this or that setter or retriever.

I once hunted a golden in a field just covered by a brace of stylish pointers, and my golden found birds they had missed.

There was, of course, witch - hunt pioneer Stan Temple's op - ed in the Sun - Sentinel, referring to the paper as «a new study... provid [ing] a science - based estimate of the number of birds and mammals killed by cats nationwide.»

Instead of hiding and sleeping by day, hunting rodents by night, as true feral cats do, remaining invisible to most of the public, fed cats treated as outdoor pets tend to loiter in daytime awaiting their feeders, sometimes conspicuously hunting birds for sport.

The 1916 tract The Domestic Cat: Bird Killer, Mouser & Destroyer of Wild Life; Means of Utilizing and Controlling It, authored by then - Massachusetts state ornithologist Edward Howe Forbush, in original form furnished the quasi-scientific basis for more than half a century of concerted efforts by hunters and birders to add cats to state lists of legally hunted species.

These «sporting dogs» (also referred to as gundogs or bird dogs) are subdivided by function — that is, how they hunt.

Some experts believe that the ancestors of the Irish Setter were the early flushing spaniels of the fourteenth century, when bird hunting was accomplished by the dogs pointing to the trees in which the birds hid.

Feeding them eliminates all hunting of birds in response to hunger, and as feeding tends to be done by TNR advocates, it also ensures that the cat population doesn't unnecessarily increase.

In isolation, New Zealand bloomed into a biome of species known nowhere else in the world, including the Moa: huge, flightless birds hunted to extinction by the early peoples.

Bordered by the Sanyati and Ume Rivers, the park is home to numerous animal species such as elephants, hippos, crocodiles, buffalos as well as thousands of birds, among which the legendary African Sea Eagle, the majestic Yellow - billed Stork, or the Black Heron with its interesting hunting method.

His portrait of Audubon and his dog encompasses the keen intelligence and love of nature that Audubon is famous for, while holding a rifle, a bird perches on his head and his hunting dog by his feet.

Perhaps because cat hunting is a recognized worldwide bird survival problem (12 of 16 birds are estimated to be killed annually by each of the 60 million outdoor cats in the U.S. alone) there's even a scientific study showing the effectiveness of the Birdsbesafe.

Even though some polar bears are hunting on land more often in areas hit by shrinking Arctic sea ice, a diet of bird eggs and berries can't sustain these huge animals, a new study finds.

The transaction restricts future development on the wooded property, which is surrounded on two sides by the popular 570 - acre recreation area, a destination for hiking, cross-country skiing, mountain biking, bird - watching, hunting and school field trips.

Their entire livelihood is based largely on hunting and eating wild animals and birds, which has been effectively prohibited by the 1974 Wildlife Conservation Act, pushing them into more remote and marginal habitat types.

, also cited by these authors: Bird D W, Bird R B and Parker C H. «Aboriginal burning regimes and hunting strategies in Australia's Western Desert».