Sentences with phrase «long as the bird»

Bird owners also have a lot of choices when it comes to cage styles and colors, and as long as the bird's needs are kept in mind, the customer can choose whatever they find appealing.

As long as another bird and plenty of activities are provided, they're great at entertaining themselves.

Temperature rarely causes a problem with birds in the home or in aviaries, as long as the birds can avoid excessive heat or cold.

Not exact matches

As you compare the plans, take a bird's - eye view of both the short - and long - term consequences of your decision.

JULY 29, 2011 New research by Chinese scientists has thrown the winged Archaeopteryx — long thought to be the «original bird» — off the evolutionary pedestal as the case study for evolution from dinosaur to bird.

Am I then really all that which other men tell of, or am I only what I know of myself, restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage, struggling for breath, as though hands were compressing my throat, yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds, thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness, trembling with anger at despotisms and petty humiliation, tossing in expectation of great events, powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance, weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making, faint and ready to say farewell to it all.

The Psalmist realizes that he is not a bird nor a priest, and so as long as he is on this earth, it is not possible for him to spend as much time in the temple as he would like.

You seem to think that as long as it is still a bird, it hasn't become a new species.

Birds of a feather, OK, but as long as people of other ethnic backgrounds are allowed in it really isn't segregated.

These are they who shall be brought nigh to God, In gardens of delight; A crowd of the former And a few of the latter generations; On inwrought couches Reclining on them face to face: Aye - blooming youths go round about to them With goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine; Their brows ache not from it, nor fails the sense: And with such fruits as shall please them best, And with flesh of such birds, as they shall long for: And theirs shall be the Houris, with large dark eyes, Like pearls hidden in their shells, In recompense of their labours past.

Anxiety like angina narrows down the gateway of experience so that we live in a bottleneck, no longer fully and freely as do the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.

Among the various kinds I can mention only the pimmt - cafe, or «coffee - pepper,» larger but about the same shape as a grain of Liberian coffee, violet - red at one end; the piment - zoueseau, or bird - pepper, small and long and scarlet; — and the piment - capresse, very large, pointed at one end, and bag - shaped at the other.

Bird pepper is mentioned by name by Long in Jamaica, and by Wafer for the Isthmus; is perhaps the pepper» as large as haws» described in Brazil by Hans Stade.

Bird song is abundant, especially as long shut windows have now been flung open.

Inglewood Organic birds grow at natures pace, taking almost twice as long as conventional chickens to grow to maturity.

What I love about serving up whole birds is everyone gets something they like, I prefer white meat and my husband prefers dark and our kids will eat anything so long as it's not spicy, so whole chickens (or game hens) get completely demolished around here.

But from a habitat and environmental point of view, we will still have a long way to go, as there is a very wide gap between the Rainforest Alliance shade and habitat requirements and those of Bird - Friendly certification.

Some producers interpret «access to the outside» as a small pop - door (chicken door) on an end - wall of a 100 ft. long shed filled with un-caged birds moving about freely on a litter - covered floor.

As part of my participation in the FOOD & WINE Blogger Correspondent program, FOOD & WINE is giving away a year - long subscription to a lucky reader from Eating Bird Food.

The lastfrontcourt player with as long a streak was Larry Bird, who was the league «stop passing forward from 1980 - 81 through» 87 - 88.

As a result, the several different «Bird» exemptions would no longer be in effect.

As lacrosse enthusiasts fashion a hybrid from these competing strains, they might take inspiration from a Mohawk legend that is often retold, about a game of lacrosse played long ago between the birds and the land animals.

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

If your child plans to use binoculars for long period of time such as during camping or bird watching, the comfort of the binoculars will be most important.

Long revered by avid birders as a haven for rare species, including Panama's national bird, the majestic Harpy Eagle.

Biologist Eric Powers, who volunteers at the Clark Botanic Garden, says that it is especially important to use natural remedies, such as bats, because past pesticide use nearly wiped out certain species of birds on Long Island.

I would be grateful if he would listen to this point: comment has been made on the advice prepared a long time ago for H5N1, bird flu, which, as I think he knows, would have been a more serious virus.

«The best explanation is that the long stiff feathers, which originated in this group of dinosaurs and were similar to modern bird feathers, could perform equally well as social signals when compared to the bony displays in T. rex or Dilophosaurus,» Gates surmises.

«The bird food that the blackcaps rely upon in Britain is powdered, so there is no longer selection for the broad beaks that allow the bird to eat large fruits such as olives on the Iberian Peninsula,» says Schaefer.

But if a drum is longer, the challenger might be advertising itself as a stronger, tougher bird, one that's a bit harder to fend off.

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

They were as amazed by my enthusiasm for a long - dead collector of beetles, butterflies and birds as I was by their admission that, really, they had no idea who he was.

The longer - lived animals are also the smarter ones, or the bigger ones, or the ones like birds and bats that evolved adaptations such as wings to make their lives safer.

So potentially as long as there are a few birds that still know the route, they can teach the ones that are currently residents how to migrate.»

Long - legged wading birds, like herons, egrets, ibises, storks, and spoonbills may choose nesting sites above resident American alligators, likely to take advantage of protection from nest predators such as raccoons and opossums.

The fibula bone (orange) in Dinosaurs is as long as the tibia and reaches down to the ankle (upper left), whereas in adult birds, it is splinter - like and shorter than the tibia, missing its lower end (upper right).

«The crane fly link was made as part of several longer - term studies — funded by The Natural Environment Research Council and Defra — investigating blanket bog ecosystems across several UK upland sites, including the Yorkshire Dales, Peak District and North York Moors.Dr Heinemeyer, who is currently leading a # 1m Defra - funded SEI project to further study the impacts of climate change and management on blanket bogs, said it wasn't only rare birds that were at risk from climate change.

The decades - long tracking of flying birds reveals that body size and flight styles determine the scale of birds» migration, as predicted by the aerodynamic theory of bird flight.

But now, a study shows that some female birds can benefit by pairing with males of another species — as long as they sneak in some same - species matings on the sly.

Every child learns that dinosaurs fall into two major groups, the Ornithischia (bird - hipped dinosaurs; Stegosaurus, Triceratops, Iguanodon and their kin) and the Saurischia (lizard - hipped dinosaurs; the predatory theropods, such as Tyrannosaurus, and the long - necked sauropodomorphs, including such well - known forms as Diplodocus).

«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.&raquAs 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.&raquas 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.»

With the skeleton of a dinosaur and the feathers of a bird, Archaeopteryx has long been hailed as marking the transition from dinosaurs to birds.

Bird conservationists pointed to the virus's apparent failure to turn up in India as an indication that it is not carried long distances by migratory birds.

One study found that the 1918 flu probably wasn't a direct mix of bird and human flu strains, as was long suspected, but may instead have been avian flu that managed to adapt to humans over time.

By contrast, the bipedal meat eaters would not have fared nearly as well in the mud with their bird - talon - like feet and long legs, and hence probably steered clear of the swamp.

The feather shares characteristics with the plumage that helps modern birds fly, such as longer barbs on one side of the feather's shaft than the other.

When the two signals were most curbed, the premaxillary bones became round and never fused, as in birds» dinosaur relatives, instead of growing long and pointy.

One, the fact that the park is located on this flyway and that as you are coming up the coast many of the birds, they will veer off to Long Island, they are going veer up the Hudson valley.

To feed such a colony, says entomologist Janusz Wojtusiak of the Zoological Museum in Kraków, Poland, the ants, each about three - tenths of an inch long, prey on relatively large insects as well as on birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, and even bats.

However, a new study has confirmed that this unique characteristic can also be seen among smaller birds such as the Eurasian siskin, a bird which is able to form bonds that last for a number of years as well as travel long distances in the company of these birds.