Sentences with phrase «land birds in»

Population trends of North Finnish land birds in relation to their habitat selection and changes in forest structure.

With access to museum ornithological collections from areas of South America that Darwin had not visited, Gould corrected a number of taxonomic errors Darwin had made (such as labeling two finch species a «Wren» and an «Icterus») and pointed out to him that although the land birds in the Galpagos were endemic to the islands, they were notably South American in character.

Not exact matches

Environmental groups have started a new court battle over protections for an imperiled bird on Western U.S. public lands but called a truce in a separate lawsuit involving the bird's smaller cousin.

Environmental groups have launched a pair of court battles over protections for an imperiled bird on public land in the Western U.S. but called a truce in a third lawsuit involving its smaller cousin.

Also, the order of creation in the genesis narrative is directly contradicted by the available physical evidence, e.g. Gen — seed / fruit trees before fish v. fossil record — seed / fruit trees long after marine life; Gen — birds before land animals v. fossil record — birds evolved from land animals, etc..

The birds were said to «land nervously and go around in circles before taking off again.»

Every day, I see that birdhouse out of my kitchen window, I see it when I go to bed at night, a small white and blue birdhouse, in the middle of a forest, empty and beautiful, our own road to nowhere, the birdhouse without birds in a forest behind our fence, public land.

«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»

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.

And when one of our birds lands on your shoulder, I want you, if you feel that blessing in your heart, to stand up where you are.»

They have closed their eyes and bowed their heads in church before, but it lent a certain excitement to meditating knowing that in a moment a bird would land on your shoulder, and wondering which one it might be.

Atheists believe that an explosion in space millions of years ago created an amoeba... then it became a fish... ten of millions of years later it sprouted some legs and crawled to dry land... after which it grew wings and became a bird....

I will make for you a covenant on that day with the wild animals, the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the ground; and I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land; and I will make you lie down in safety.

On that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; the fish of the sea, and the birds of the air, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all human beings that are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.

night and day — «Day» 2: Waters in the sky (atmosphere)-- «Day» 3: Dry land, plants — «Day» 4: Sun, moon and stars — «Day» 5: Sea creatures, birds — «Day» 6: Land animals, Humans (male and female)-- «Day» 7: Miller land, plants — «Day» 4: Sun, moon and stars — «Day» 5: Sea creatures, birds — «Day» 6: Land animals, Humans (male and female)-- «Day» 7: Miller Land animals, Humans (male and female)-- «Day» 7: Miller time

For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle - dove is heard in our land (Song of Sol.

Theo himself fluctuates between nihilism and hope, and compares his plight to the chained bird in The Goldfinch, observing «what a cruel life for a little living creature — fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.»

In both stories, the boat comes to rest on a mountain and birds are sent out to find land.

Creationist «well, what about the origin of the universe, the fact that the universe obeys laws, the origins of life on this earth, the fact that the largest «gaps» in the fossil record correspond exactly with the organisms identified in the bible as being created by God, namely fish, birds, land animals and humans»

Later in May, he wrote again to Melancthon, dating the letter «From the land of the birds that sing sweetly in the branches and praise God with all their power night and day», and signed his name «Martin» in Greek.

With a biblical greeting to Melancthon and his wife, «Farewell to you and your flesh», he dates it «in the land of the birds».

«Participation in environmental water monitoring will help the future management of Tar - Ru Lands and the valuable bird, fish, frog and plant species native to the region,» he said.

They used information on birds and trees in landscapes with different levels of production output to project how different species» population sizes would respond to different ways of using the land.

Also flora and invertebrate fauna in organically versus conventionally managed land had been compared on the farms selected for the bird survey.

The benefits of organic farming include the guardianship of our natural land resources, native plants, wildlife, insects, and birds, the development and conservation of natural ecosystems and a reduction in the nitrate and agrochemical pollution of our countryside and water courses.

A study by Rhône - Poulenc (1997) has shown a steady annual increase in the number of bird territories on land converted to organic production and a higher overall number of territories on the organically managed land.

Bird's Aphrodisiac Oyster Shack brings land and sea together and then drowns it in beer for the least pretentious Surf»N' Turf ever served.

Via The YouTube description: In the second round of the 2014 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, Jimmy Walker's tee shot glances a bird mid flight and lands in the rough on the par - 4 17th holIn the second round of the 2014 Crowne Plaza Invitational at Colonial, Jimmy Walker's tee shot glances a bird mid flight and lands in the rough on the par - 4 17th holin the rough on the par - 4 17th hole.

I was alone in my father's house, watching the Wisconsin winter through the big picture windows — goldfinches and cardinals at the bird feeder, flights of mallards rising and circling and landing on the Menomonee across the road, icicles dripping from the eaves and then freezing again as the sun went down — but I wasn't seeing a bit of it.

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As the birds landed, Sam grabbed the first one, took off the countermark and dropped it in the clock He did this with a second bird that happened to be Phil's.

Whether you need resources about conserving land with Mass Audubon or managing your forests for the birds, Stefanie can point you in the right direction.

Jan. 3: A trio of tropical birds has landed in Chicago this winter to show off their vibrantly colored feathers and occasional dance moves — but they won't be here for long.

The land was subsequently renamed Bird Haven because of the large number and variety of birds that sheltered in the area.

Under the leadership (1980 - 1999) of Gerard A. Bertrand, Mass Audubon spearheaded passage of critical land and water protection legislation, while also maintaining focus on local and international bird protection, launching the Coastal Waterbird Program in 1987 and beginning cooperative work with the Belize Audubon Society in 1984, then forming Programme for Belize in 1988.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

The birds, pollinators, land mammals, and marine mammals in Massachusetts have already started feeling the effects of climate change on their habitats and life cycles.

For over 25 years, Mass Audubon has supported the status quo that prohibits hunting on Sundays in keeping with our long - held belief that hikers, families, bird watchers, wildlife photographers, amateur naturalists, and others should have one day a week free of hunting to enjoy in safety the serenity of nature on public and private lands.

In the creation of the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, the organization in a single stroke broadened its mission of bird advocacy and education to include land conservation, and began its evolution into a regional conservation leadeIn the creation of the Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary, the organization in a single stroke broadened its mission of bird advocacy and education to include land conservation, and began its evolution into a regional conservation leadein a single stroke broadened its mission of bird advocacy and education to include land conservation, and began its evolution into a regional conservation leader.

Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.

As a result, Ksepka and colleagues estimate that the ancestors of some nine major land bird lineages — from mousebirds to owls to raptors like hawks and eagles — must have emerged in quick succession, all practically in the shadow of the extinction event.

For every species of mammal, bird, reptile and amphibian on land, there is a species of bony fish in the ocean.

As the slugs hunker in ambush, the unsuspecting bird (order Strigiformes) lands and suddenly finds itself upside - down and swinging like a pendulum from the buttered perch, talons gripping in astonishment.

Festo does not plan any further generations of the SmartBird, and ornithopters in general still have a long way to go — especially in being able to land like a bird — before they are ready for the runway.

Mortelliti, who holds degrees from the La Sapienza (University of Rome), is an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Habitat Conservation at the University of Maine, where his lab's research is focused on the impact of land - use change on vertebrate species (mammals and birds).

We include also the land birds that are stopping in those islands.

«As long as the older trees are not so stressed that they do not produce many viable seeds, [and] the dispersal mechanism — for example, wind, birds, mammals — is present, and the habitat where the seed lands has the appropriate soil, nutrients and temperature,» says biologist Terry Root of Stanford University, who was not involved in the study, «then the trees will be able to shift.»

The story began in the early 1990s, when Chinese researchers began unearthing intriguing land animals: first a primitive toothed bird, then a more advanced one.

Because adult cardinal songs exist as different dialects in different geographic regions, dispersing juvenile birds may land in a population with a foreign dialect.

It may have been found in the nick of time: the bird's habitat is threatened by deforestation and Ridgely and others have now launched a campaign to raise enough money to buy the land on which the bird lives.