Sentences with phrase «jay bird»

Svensmark was the child pointing out that the Emperor appeared naked as a jay bird.

Not exact matches

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...

While the rest of his species went to Mexico for the winter this tough bird flew East to startle jays and ornithologists in Ossining, N.Y.

Image credit: 1) blue jay by Ken Thomas (Mass Audubon); 2) pine cone bird feeder by Domestic Wonder / Meagan via Flickr

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They hand - raised scrub - jays without giving them the opportunity to steal from other birds» caches.

Scientists had already established the amazing memories of corvids, the family of birds that includes jays, crows, ravens, and nutcrackers.

That behavior implied that the scrub - jays might be thinking about other birds» potential actions, a type of flexible thinking that was supposedly beyond the capabilities of a scrub - jay's little brain.

But beauty won't save the pinyon jay nor will blandness work against its cousin when climate change raises temperatures and alters bird habitats in the southwestern United States, according to research sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Do Eurasian jays know what other birds are thinking?

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.

In a follow - up analysis, she and her colleagues at Cornell University tried to pinpoint when in a bird's life these variants gave jays their boost.

Graduate student Nancy Chen, a population genetics fellow now at the University of California, Davis, started by sequencing the full genome of a reference scrub jay, and then assessed the genetic differences of all 3800 individual birds followed by the Florida group.

The Lower Rio Grande River Valley is currently a top destination for birdwatchers because rare tropical birds such as the green jay and the Altamira oriole are among those that frequent the area.

But, she adds that the Eurasian jays» overall preference for hiding nuts in the sand suggests that these birds, which are known for their secretive ways, may generally try to avoid drawing attention to themselves.

These findings, the scientists report, «suggest that jays relate information about their previous experience as a pilferer to the possibility of future stealing by another bird, and modify their caching strategy accordingly.»

He recalls sitting in that patch for an hour, listening and looking for birds, and finding it silent except for mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) and jays (Aphelocoma insularis)-- generalist species that do not need chaparral.

Examples: Hawaiian honeycreepers infested with feather lice, birds in Puerto Rico afflicted by Philornis flies and the endangered Florida scrub jay parasitized by fleas.

But North American avian species had never contracted WNV, and the novel pathogen spread across the continent in just 5 years, leaving millions of birds, from jays to sparrows to finches, dead in its wake.

On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh,» Carson wrote.

Steller's jay, the dark bird at the upper right, is a denizen of the western fir and pine forests where it replaces the blue jay of eastern North America.

Other New World birds analyzed in the study include parrots, woodpeckers, toucans, hummingbirds, blackbirds, tanagers, warblers, thrushes, wrens, chickadees, jays and flycatchers.

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Among the cat victims were mourning doves, blue jays, cottontail rabbits, southern flying squirrels and rarer animals, such as purple gallinules, a kind of water bird.

However, you can recognize their handiwork by looking for partially plucked carcasses of songbirds with the heads missing... Corvids — crows, ravens, jays, and magpies — are well known for their raids on birds» nests to take eggs and nestlings.»

Among wild birds, Corvids such as crows, scrub jays and magpies are particularly susceptible.

Glen E. Woolfenden & John W. Fitzpatrick, Florida Scrub - jay, in BIRDS, RARE AND ENDANGERED BIOTA OF FLORIDA, VOL.

For example, cats have preyed on piping plover, young and adult Florida scrub - jay, and least tern, all federal listed bird species, as well as black skimmer, painted bunting, and oystercatcher.

If you are lucky you may see some Lake Louise wildlife from a distance including cougars, elk, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, plus more than 250 bird species, including the gray jay.

The island scrub - jay lives only on Santa Cruz Island, which means it has the smallest range of any North American bird species.

Introduction Of the over 500 species of birds that breed in North America, only one, the island scrub - jay, occurs on a single island — Santa Cruz Island in Channel Islands National Park.

The island scrub jay (Aphelocoma insularis) also island jay or Santa Cruz jay is a bird in the scrub jay genus, Aphelocoma, which is endemic to Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Southern California.

[4] This bird is a member of the crow family, and is one of a group of closely related North American species named as scrub jays.

The island scrub jay was first described by American ornithologist Henry Wetherbee Henshaw in 1886 [3] and an archaeological specimen at site SCRI - 192 dating from 1780's -1812 on Santa Cruz Island is the earliest evidence of the bird in the historic period.

While you're hiking, keep an eye out for the Santa Cruz Island scrub jay, a bright blue bird that lives on this island and nowhere else in the world.

We had so much fun doing this blue jay, we'll have to draw a bunch more birds.

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This sky - blue jay is one of the most specialized birds in the U.S. and Canada, its entire life history tightly connected with the availability of conifer seeds, with pinyon seeds being highly favored.

Preferred habitat: moist forests + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: deciduous + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: partial shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 50 to 60 feet + + + + Wildlife value: Acorns are eaten by wild turkey, Bobwhite, quail, dove jay, Gray and Fox Squirrels; they are also eaten by the following birds: Evening Grosbeaks, Brown Thrasher, Mourning Dove, Red - bellied and Red - headed Woodpeckers, Blue Jay, Tufted Titmouse, White - breasted Nuthatch, Rose - breasted Grosbeak, and Rufous - sided Towhee

Now autumn has arrived, and blue jays and other larger birds are investigating these lawns AND finding larva.

I have a lot of respect for these loud, shiny birds — for corvids generally: jays, ravens, rooks, crows, magpies — mostly because they do interesting things, which is to say that I think they're «smart.»

But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted — if I could hit»em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Jon Thaxton has used his real estate skills to almost single - handedly save the scrub jay, an endangered bird that's found exclusively in Florida.

Stephan also added some interesting bird images that are echoed in the collection of owl sculptures and the blue jay toss cushion.

Thankfully we have a lot of windows and local birds that keep her very occupied, including this huge blue jay who hops around our rose bushes by her favorite window and teases her mercilessly.