Sentences with phrase «mainly on birds»

Such methods have been used for more than a decade, but mainly on birds or sea mammals.

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He explained that since birds can regulate their temperatures, their distribution depends mainly on where they find adequate food and shelter.

The medium - sized bird, found in lowland forests in the Amazon basin in South America, has one brood per year and mainly feeds on insects.

Additionally, although carrion flies mainly home in on large animal carcasses, other invertebrate surveyors could help scientists study different ecosystem layers — for instance, carrion beetles, which feast on smaller carcasses, including those of birds.

In contrast to some initial studies that had suggested that H7N9 poses an imminent risk of a global pandemic, the new research found, based on analyses of virus samples from the Chinese outbreak, that H7N9 is still mainly adapted for infecting birds, not humans.

They are including our project in their wildlife vet development project in Seychelles and Mauritius which was mainly focused on birds so expanding to turtles and terrapins is a good move!

There is a lot of repetition e.g. the villagers say the same thing every time they come on): Village Leader — 16 Emilio — 7 (including singing his song accompanied by the class) Mother — 7 (mainly singing her song accompanied by the class) Narrator 1 - 2 Narrator 2 — 2 Narrator 3 — 2 Narrator 4 — 2 Villagers (1 - 4)- 3 Rabbits (1 - 4)-- 2 Hens (1 - 4)-- 2 Sheep (1 - 4)-- 2 Ibis birds (1 - 7)- 1

If a pet bird is mainly consuming seeds, owners should sprinkle a vitamin, mineral and amino acid supplement on top of a fresh, high - quality seed mix and offer a variety of other types of food to help fill in the holes nutritionally.

Bird behaviorists have stated that many of the bad behaviors pet birds can demonstrate such as yelling, biting, feather plucking and so on are mainly due to two factors: poor nutrition and boredom.

Breeding occurs in four loose colonies (Orta 1992a), mainly on the summit plateau of Boatswainbird Island, especially on rougher areas with some groups of birds occupying ledges on the sides of the plateau (Ashmole et al. 1994).

When a cat gets hungry, she will snack mainly on rodents or birds, and while that might present problems for local wildlife, a vaccinated cat colony poses few or no hazards to people.

Birds that mainly eat seeds in the wild such as parakeets, cockatiels and finches also ingest other foods like greens and other vegetables, as well as some insects and so on.

Among the many predators of hyraxes is Verreaux's Eagle (Aquila verreauxii), which feeds mainly on hyraxes (Symes and Kruger 2012) and is among the most diet - specialized raptor (bird of prey).

Marine mammals, birds, cetaceans and pinnipeds (seals, sea lions and walruses), which feed mainly on plankton, fish and squid, are vulnerable to climate change - driven changes in prey distribution, abundance and community composition in response to climatic factors (Learmonth et al., 2006).

Trico seems to be the real star of the game, mainly because it's variously described as a giant dog, bird - dog, bird dog thing, dogbird, half - cat half - dog half - bird (that's a lot of halves), and so on.