Sentences with phrase «large flocks»

Another strategic effort is the U.S. Air Force's Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard prevention program, or BASH, which collects data to help map routes that prevent planes from sharing airspace with large flocks of birds.

Overall, they conclude, the evidence from both narrative accounts and museum records suggests that American Flamingos once occurred naturally in large flocks in Florida and probably even nested there before being eliminated by hunting around 1900.

You can expect to see large flocks of macaws in flight or feeding on almond trees by the shoreline.

Their original purpose was to herd large flocks of sheep, not by the traditional method of nipping and barking; but instead kept order through their swift, stealthy movements and strong demeanor.

It also provides a feeding and resting area for large flocks of waterfowl and osprey during migration.

Located in Tissamaharama, this huge man - made lake comes alive in the evening when large flocks of egrets descend onto the trees around the lake to roost.

They generally move about in large flocks finding water during times of drought as well as searching for their diet of grains, grasses, seeds and insects.

This population growth, the story goes, would have been temporary, because large flocks would have damaged the forests that provided food to the pigeons.

For example large flocks of around 10,000 birds tend to have softer outlines: one part may change direction, but the rest of the flock does not, leading to a wobbling appearance.

They form large flocks in the winter, when they're searching for food, and then each pair chooses a single set breeding site where they will be located throughout the spring as they build a nest and raise their chicks.

that extra large flocked stick wreath above the fireplace mantel is my absolute favorite.

In ranching areas, such as in Montana, groups of large flock guarding dogs are used to protect sheep and cattle.

He was a shepherd's most valuable assistant in helping to protect large flocks of sheep for long days on rugged terrain.

Fancy is also the only OES in North America to hold a RLF (Ranch Large Flock 1) title, and is owned and handled by Jill Parsons

Sheep farms went west with the rest of the population, and the dogs made it possible for shepherds to control large flocks on a journey from New Mexico to the California gold fields to feed settlers and travelers.

Herding dogs — such as collies, border collies, corgis or sheepdogs — come from a long line of dogs that spent their days running and moving large flocks of farm animals.

When rains fall during the wet season, the pans are filled with water and attract large flocks of flamingos, as well as big herds of zebra, springbok and wildebeest, followed closely by predators, making for fantastic game viewing.

In the early fall large flocks can be seen in Monterey Bay.

Thought the Everglades supported large flocks but either I was wrong, they are gone, or they are in other places.

I bought a bunch of large flocked branches and berry branches from Michaels when they were 60 % off, plus an additional 20 % off.

Birds are very social and generally live in large flocks in the wild.

The Border Collie was developed in the border lands of England and Scotland as a livestock herding dog and was most commonly used to herd large flocks of sheep and herds of cattle.

In her video project called Naples, large flocks of birds rhythmically move across the screen, Ants focuses on movements of a single insect.

In fact, when someone crumbles that last empty pack of their favorite brand and vows to never buy another, he might not realize that he is less like the heroic individual grasping his own bootstraps and more like a single bird whose sudden left turn is just one speck in the larger flock.

Then, in 2008, a large flock of migratory ducks landed and died in a settling pond for Syncrude's oil sands waste product — setting in motion, though it was hard to predict at the time, industry - activist tensions that would put northern Alberta's pay dirt at the forefront of a blistering debate.

Every year around the 26th of August, they would assemble in large flocks and then migrate south.

Neither, of course, did he die to turn a mass of people into a large flock of sheep (western style) driven by a shepherd with his sheepdogs.

Start with a flock of three or four hens at the most, as a small flock will be a little less work, require less feed and less clean up than a larger flock.

Alister was from a cattle property while Peter's family ran a large flock of self - replacing merinos and Santa / Hereford cattle.

However, poultry is defined as a large flock of birds that are for - profit.

Inspired to study the starlings flying around their city, Andrea Cavagna of the Sapienza University in Rome and colleagues had previously shown that in large flocks, changes in distance between members propagate rather like sound waves.

«To make influenza vaccine, you have to find the right strain of chickens, grow a large flock, inoculate the eggs, and then wait for them to mature before harvesting,» says Adalsteinsson.

The larger the flock, the faster the speed.

Both of these conditions are common in large flocks, and early detection will lead to faster treatment and pain relief.

This also means that the large flocks observed in the 1800's were not an uncharacteristic short - lived phenomenon, but a long - term force of nature.

The idea is that Passenger Pigeons evolved to live in huge flocks and became dependent on their large flocks, meaning they could not produce enough offspring to survive unless there were billions of them, either for social reasons (they would not breed in small flocks), for predator reasons (they could not satiate predators without huge flocks), or for resource reasons (they could not find adequate food sources in small populations).

Reality is there are large flocks (No: wrong collective noun.

Both of these species can be kept in large flocks, making this much easier to accomplish.

A steady process of adding animals along with widening the range of the pasture allows the guard dog to get used to its surrounding and the larger flock of farm animals that they are supposed to protect.

Acoustic indication such as whistles are used to command herding dogs mainly because these can be heard over a distance that's generally involved when gathering a large flock of sheep in a vast grazing land.

They're often found in large flocks that can reach over 100 birds, though mating pairs will fly off to find a tree cavity to nest in come breeding season.

The Border collie puppy is endowed with the intelligence, protectiveness and zest of the large flocking dogs but they also possess the desire to please of the more passive variety.

Today Briards should be well - adjusted, obedient, loving members of the householdhardly the same expectations that the French shepherd had when he left his dog alone on a hillside with a large flock of sheep and potential predators.

Rachel and her husband, Matt, have a Dalmatian, Cloud, and a large flock of chickens.

It takes serious problem - solving skills for one dog to command a large flock of farm animals, so these breeds have proven mental abilities.

Birds are very social and live in large flocks in the wild.

In the Australian city of Adelaide, large flocks of these small parrots have damaged street lights, stripped vegetation from trees and peppered homes with droppings.

Up on dry land, which is protected by the BVI National Parks Trust, you'll find blooming cacti, wild orchids, rare rock iguanas and large flocks of preening pink flamingos.