Sentences with phrase «many small birds»

Or, I walk through a forest and I notice a large blossom tree, full of small birds happily singing.

At the Wailing Wall, small birds have taken up residence in a very resilient plant that grows from its ancient bricks.

Other Trinidad favorites are the small Bird and long Trinidad Bird peppers.

I had a smaller bird and smaller roasting dish so I didn't use four, but I wish I had.

This recipe makes plenty of marinade and you'll have some left over for a smaller bird 10 - 13 pound bird.

The first is a small bird pepper that grows wild and is obviously spread by the birds.

Peking duck is often served at Chinese weddings as a symbol of fidelity; the small birds mate for life.

Then, less rabbits, squirrels and smaller birds too.

Kicking things up in the flavour department, I added a small bird's eye chili with nutmeg and pinch of cinnamon.

I relatively small bird gave me 10 decent sized egg rolls that I then halved.

It did lack that distinctive smokey flavor but it was still delicious and I think will be my go to method for roasting smaller birds from now on.

Cili padi are apparently the same as cabe rawit, the small bird chiles, while dried red chiles are cili kering.

Down at Cape Canaveral small birds with feathers get almost as much attention as the moon rockets

The story begins in the middle, in a smelly trailer parked in a dark forest on a night when the owls hooted too often and small birds cringed in their nests, disturbed by the howling laughter below.

A young man caught a small bird, and held it behind his back.

Despite having the characteristics of a Magpie, I'm quite a small bird as I'm part chaffinch and part blackbird.

The American kestrel, our country's smallest bird of prey, was once a common sight over Massachusetts fields.

That there is magic in a quiet marsh and a few small birds.

Of course, a wren is a small bird known for its beautiful singing voiced.

In the front section cut a hole near the top around 2 inches in diameter this will let in some of the slightly bigger garden birds but most likely inhabitants will be the smaller birds.

Katherine Stevens has been writing since 2000, ranging from her first published piece about small birds in «Companion Parrot Magazine,» to her more recent mothering articles in local parenting zines.

Elephants and small birds in soft shades of gray make it a perfect option for a boyâ $ ™ s or girlâ $ ™ s nursery.

One of the most popular things to do is to construct a cage around the feeder with spaces large enough only for small birds.

Smaller birds may have an easier time shedding excess body heat, or perhaps the act of growing bigger is simply more stressful on birds» bodies during hot weather, Mariette says.

Using feather length as a proxy for nutritional status in birds, the researchers were able to rule out the possibility that smaller birds were less well nourished than their ancestors.

He also expanded the census to include bats and smaller birds.

Where top carnivores disappear, these smaller predators often explode in numbers, with potentially disastrous consequences for small birds and mammals.

Only for a small bird called the Forbes» snipe could de-extinction potentially be a boon to other species.

«Smaller birds tend to have faster metabolic rates and shorter generation times,» Field explains.

Hence the collective impact of even occasional preying is huge, with domestic cats killing some 14 billion small birds and mammals a year in the US alone.

These small birds can wolf down almost their weight in tidal invertebrates in preparation for their 4000 - kilometer migrations.

Dead fish floated on the surfaces of ponds, and scores of small birds lay dead on the ground.

«The small bird - like dinosaurs in the Cretaceous, the maniraptoran dinosaurs, are not a well - understood group,» says first author Derek Larson, a paleontologist at the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Alberta and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto.

When the dinosaurs became extinct, plenty of small bird - like dinosaurs disappeared along with giants like Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.

Because wild relatives of the galliform chicken species are plentiful in Africa, this study required researchers to sift through the remnants of many small bird species to identify bones with the unique sizes and shapes that are characteristic of domestic chickens.

Some tarantulas succeed in occasionally capturing small birds, small mammals such as mice, and even small fish, but their ordinary prey consists of insects such as crickets (for ground dwellers) and moths (for arboreal species).

Perceiving a small bird flying across the sky may be more important.

In the life cycle of this small bird, which is widespread in forests in Europe and Western Asia, moulting only happens once the breeding season is completed.

This peculiarity, however, had not been observed in smaller birds, such is the case with the Eurasian siskin (Carduelis spinus).

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.

Scientists from Griffith University have taken part in an international study which has revealed the genetic secrets of how a small bird can survive in one of the most hostile environments on earth.

Until now, some studies had confirmed a marked sociability in small birds such as the pine siskin (Carduelis pinus) and the common redpoll (Acanthis flammea).

Hanging out by bird feeders around the world, the insects have been observed feasting on a variety of small birds, in particular, hummingbirds.

Crows appeared to use magpies as Cheetos scouts, waiting for the smaller birds to explore the food, then landing and shooing the magpies off their prize.

Smaller birds sometimes nest near larger species to benefit from their more aggressive defense against predators.

The story begins in a forest in northern Europe, where a small bird has died and fallen to the ground.

Large waterfowl were the top suspects, as plane engines are designed to withstand strikes from smaller birds.

Or do the smaller birds compensate with bold pursuit of new food sources?

«The smaller ones, like the smallest birds, are all good flappers, so they [could] «flap - stall» to land,» says Padian.

Until recently, the idea that we could chart a small bird's migration in such detail was unthinkable.